ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. -- The Arnold Engineering Development Complex-level winners of the 2024 Air Force Materiel Command Science, Engineering and Technical Management Awards have been selected.
Award nomination packages are judged upon three elements: operational impact, innovative improvements and customer focus.
The AEDC-level award winners, including the categories for which they won, are:
- Junior Military Scientist/Engineer: Capt. Gordon McCulloh, 746th Test Squadron
- Mid-Career Military Scientist/Engineer: Capt. Nathan Tedder, 717th Test Squadron
- Junior Civilian Scientist/Engineer: Caleb Bell, 716th Test Squadron
- Mid-Career Civilian Scientist/Engineer: Kirk Butler, Hypersonic Systems Test Branch
- Senior Civilian Scientist/Engineer: Sean Smith, Hypersonic Systems Test Branch
- Technical Management: Timothy Espinoza, 704th Test Group Detachment 2
- Technical Management Team Award: Field Measurement Team, 718th Test Squadron
This team consists of: Celia Doub, 2nd Lt. Caleb Lynch, Anthony Hanner, Adam Plondke and David Cox
- Engineering Technician: Russell Loos, 704th Test Group OL-AC
- Career Achievement: Richard Rushing, Hypersonic Systems Test Branch
- Support: Laura Pinard, 846th Test Squadron
- Outstanding Scientist Team Award: Capabilities Development Functional Area Team, 746th Test Squadron
This team consists of: Sean Abrahamson, Luis Melendez, Carols Ruiz and Orlando Padilla
- General James Ferguson Engineering Award: David LaBuda, 846th Test Squadron
- General Bernard P. Randolph Engineering Team Award: Arcjet Nuclear Modernization Test Team, Hypersonic Systems Test Branch
This team consists of: Aaron Bryan, Kingsley Broome, Christopher Follis, Cooper Green, Landon Jarrel, Joshua Lankford, Christopher Lehto, Jonathan Lister, Matthew Perenich, Richard Rushing, Cullum Spurlock, Tyler Thompson, Alexandra Wolfe and 2nd Lt. Orville Williams
- General Lester L. Lyles Award: Jonathan Lister, Hypersonic Systems Test Branch
- Captain Roland R. Obenland Engineering Memorial Award: 1st Lt. Nicholas George, 746th Test Squadron
AEDC-level winners will now compete for the Air Force Test Center-level Science, Engineering and Technical Management Awards.