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Jan. 14, 2013
AEDC's economic impact exceeds $642 million

Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) economic impact - which includes AEDC and its remote operating locations - the Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 at White Oak in Silver Spring, Md., and the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at Moffett Field, Calif. - was $642.9 million for fiscal 2012.
Dec. 20, 2012
Acting Under Secretary presents AF small business achievement awards

In a Dec. 17 ceremony held on the 109th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first powered flight, the Air Force honored 15 Air Force employees and organizations for significant contributions to the Air Force Small Business Program.Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Jamie Morin was
Dec. 18, 2012
AEDC's 2012 year in review

Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) newspaper staff presents a photo montage look back at the tests and events that helped support the nation's air and space superiority.
Dec. 14, 2012
AEDC's base newspaper begins the New Year with new distribution dates

The High Mach bi-weekly base newspaper will be distributed to the base on Mondays beginning Jan. 11, 2013.The paper, which was previously distributed on Fridays, provides AEDC employees, retirees, test customers, elected officials and the Arnold Community Council members with mission and testing
Dec. 14, 2012
Technical Excellence Poster Winners

Three Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) engineering professionals received awards Nov. 29 for technical posters presented at the Third Annual Technical Excellence Poster Session.The event was sponsored by the Arnold Association of Professional Societies (AAPS) in conjunction with the
Dec. 14, 2012
AEDC Visitor Center closing for the holidays

The Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Visitor Center will close during the Christmas and New Year holiday from Dec. 22 - Jan. 1.Personnel who are working during this time and have an emergency need for a common access card (CAC) that would result in a work stoppage may contact the base
Dec. 13, 2012
Navy returns to AEDC to test next-generation heat shield candidate materials for missiles, reentry vehicles

Once it leaves a U.S. Navy Trident II submarine and is clear of the water, a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) rapidly accelerates to more than Mach 20, on its trajectory to impact and destroy a target.An SLBM is the Navy's sea-based equivalent to the Air Force's land-based
Dec. 12, 2012
AEDC's National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex team celebrates 25th anniversary of the world's largest wind tunnels

Twenty five years ago on Dec. 11, 1987, construction of the 80-foot by 120-foot test section addition to the existing 40-foot by 80-foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) in Moffett Field, Calif., was completed. To honor the grand opening of the facility comprising the world's two
Dec. 12, 2012
AEDC Fire Department honors a true hero

When Arnold Engineering Development Complex Fire Department Chief Daryle Lopes sent an email out to the worldwide fire protection community seeking moral support for a young man battling cancer, to say Chief Lopes was pleased and impressed with the response is an understatement.Mark Kelly Olson is a
Dec. 3, 2012
AEDC played critical role in supporting NASA Explorer's mission to MAP the skies

Looking skyward, scientists world-wide now know the universe's size, composition, approximate age and rate of expansion, thanks in part to "essential" data derived from a time-sensitive test conducted at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex's (AEDC) Mark 1 Aerospace Space Chamber in February

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