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  • Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Budget Analyst Carol Pratt, call sign KI4QWM, waits with a notebook and pen for a response to a call she made to another ham radio operator in Alabama. Pratt joined other ‘hams,’ including her husband, Harvey, at the communication center of the Coffee County Emergency Management Agency in Manchester during the annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in June. (Photo provided)

    Carol Pratt looks back on her life - a labor of love

    Benjamin Franklin once said, "He that can have patience can have what he will." As a government budget analyst at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and a mother, Carol Pratt knows a lot about the virtues of patience. She said both her profession and being a parent require patience, attention to detail, keeping up with never-ending
  • Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Contracting Officer Alan Fudge answers a question from Jane Davis, with DavisGroupe, about business opportunities at Arnold during the first of a two-day Federal Funding Seminar in Manchester. DavisGroupe, a business based in Murfreesboro, has partnered with a service disabled veteran-owned small business to produce LED lights. Davis said the goal of the people behind the business partnership is to bring quality jobs to disabled veterans in middle Tennessee. (Photo by Philip Lorenz III)

    AEDC contracting experts educate local businesses on doing business with base

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) representatives participated in a Federal Funding Seminar at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center Aug. 5 to educate local businesses on doing business with the base. Alan Fudge with AEDC Contracting said it was important for him and Aerospace Testing Alliance's Commodity Manager Jeff Foster to

  • New vice commander sees Arnold assignment as great opportunity

    Coming from a strictly aircraft maintenance background, Col. Eugene Mittuch, Arnold's new vice commander, was somewhat surprised when he found out his next assignment would be at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). "My first impression so far is that this place is very impressive," he said. "The size and the complexity of the facilities

  • Arnold public web site has new look, features

    In May, the Air Force unveiled a new look for its official Web sites, and the Arnold public Web site migrated to that new look July 27. For frequent visitors to the Arnold site, the changes are obvious at a glance. The site features a larger layout, larger photos, new technology and less clutter. The design offers users new content types with the
  • AEDC outside machinist J. R. Dunham prepares a Minuteman Stage III motor before testing in J-6 in 2003. Operators fired the randomly selected motor at a simulated altitude of 100,000 feet to qualify the motor’s production lot. The test confirmed contaminants in the propellant did not impact motor performance.

    Minuteman III replacement program wraps up

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) engineers wrapped up testing of the Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP) for Minuteman III rocket motors in the center's J-6 test cell last week. The J-6 facility, which was built in 1994, is used for testing large rocket motors at simulated altitudes up to 100,000 feet above sea level. "Since the
  • Col. Michael Panarisi

    Commander's childhood dream comes true at Arnold

    New Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Commander Col. Michael Panarisi's dream job as a child was to be an engineer. Being accepted to MIT was the beginning of that dream until the colonel realized he would not be able to afford the tuition. However, a childhood mentor advised him to think outside the box and think of bigger
  • Aerospace Testing Alliance Outside Machinist Everett Fulmer inspects the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon Combined-cycle Engine Technology (FaCET) scramjet test article in the center’s Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit test cell prior to a test. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

    AEDC reaches major milestone with hypersonic engine testing

    A 10-year effort to upgrade a high speed, high temperature, blow-down ground test facility at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) culminated in a recent hypersonic Mach 6 test run on a state-of-the-art combined-cycle engine demonstrator. "This test was significant," said Matthew Bond, test manager of AEDC's Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test
  • The tri-colored bat is currently one of the most common bats in Tennessee. That could all change with white nose syndrome. (Photo by John Lamb)

    Arnold bat population in danger of white nose syndrome

    Because Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) biologists are two of only a handful of experts who have experience with bat issues in the state of Tennessee, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has asked them to help with a current and wide-spread issue. Aerospace Testing Alliance Conservation Biologists John Lamb and Richie Wyckoff
  • Gen. Donald Hoffman, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, presents Arnold Engineering Development Center’s flag to Col. Michael Panarisi as the colonel assumes the command of Arnold July 13. (Photo by David Housch)

    AEDC holds change of command ceremony

    The U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) held a change of command ceremony July 13. Col. Michael Panarisi assumed command from Col. Art Huber in a formal ceremony presided over by Gen. Donald Hoffman, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, Wright Patterson, Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio. Arnold's squadron commanders,
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