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  • Sequestration will lead to staff reductions at Aerospace Testing Alliance

    We've known for weeks that sequestration would impact the Air Force civilian workforce because of a mandatory furlough one day a week without pay for six months. That equals to 20 percent of a civilian's pay and a serious financial impact of government-imposed sequestration. Up until this past week

  • AEDC firefighters receive UXO identification training

    Denny Timmons, AEDC's installation restoration program and military munitions response program manager, was recently approached by Jim Miller and Yorky Knowles with EA Engineering, Corp., offering to provide AEDC's firefighters and security police with current unexploded ordinance (UXO)

  • Team R.P.G. competes in FIRST® Tech Challenge

    Team R.P.G. (Robot Programming Guild), a Tennessee team, recently competed in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) in Owensboro, Ky. where they won the Rockwell Innovate award for their wheel design. The FTC is designed for students in grades 7-12 who want to compete head to head, using a sports model.

  • ATA and IGUA extends current labor contract

    The bargaining unit members of the International Guards Union of America (IGUA) Local 46 recently approved a one-year extension of their labor contract through March 31, 2014 with AEDC's prime contractor Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA).IGUA Local 46 has been a part of the Arnold Air Force Base

  • AEDC legal office offers estate planning assistance

    I'm 25 years old, single, no children, and my most prized possession is my Rock Band videogame and my growing collection of Mossy Oak accessories. I don't need a will, right?Well, that depends. Do you care what happens to your family or property if you become disabled or die? If so, you need a plan

  • Pentagon Delays Sending Furlough Notices to Civilian Workforce

    Pentagon officials have put off sending furlough notices to civilian employees until they've had a chance to analyze how pending legislation that would fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year will affect the Defense Department.Officials now estimate that furlough notices will go

  • Local high school campus named for AFMC commander

    Beavercreek City Schools dedicated its high school campus to Air Force Materiel Command Commander Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, a 1976 Beavercreek graduate, in a ceremony held March 15.The campus was renamed the "General Janet C. (Libby) Wolfenbarger Campus at Beavercreek High School." The school is

  • Sequestration impacts our mission, people and bases

    As commander of Air Force Materiel Command, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, I lead an organization of some 80,000 military members and civilian employees whose work touches every aspect of the Air Force. Arnold Air Force Base is one of the bases in my command.When the warfighter

  • New combined test force established for AEDC's newest test capability

    AEDC's leadership heralded two firsts at the Complex. One is the recent activation of the Space Combined Test Force (CTF). The other is acceptance of the new test and evaluation mission that the CTF will execute. The CTF integrates Air Force engineers with Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) contracted