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  • Safety Office enables Team AEDC to meet mission

    “Hi, I’m from Safety and I’m here to help!”OK, what did you think when you read that statement? What most people have thought in the past is something along the lines of, “Oh brother…” Today’s AEDC Safety Office wants you to file all that away and take a fresh look at an organization that exists to

  • Trial by Fire – Actionable data to power the Nation’s defense

    Nearly four decades ago, the Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility (ASTF), the largest and most capable turbine engine test facility in the nation was dedicated. Faced with the Soviet Union’s growing threat of advanced military capability in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the nation turned to AEDC

  • Program Management Office helping AEDC meet its mission

    One of the goals of the Department of Defense National Defense Strategy is to “Reform the Department for Greater Performance and Affordability.”  Part of this goal includes adapting organizational structures to best meet evolving mission needs, by consolidating, eliminating or restructuring as

  • AEDC Strategy 2020: A disciplined approach

    Upon arriving at Arnold Air Force Base last summer, I re­ceived the mission brief that most of you have seen.Until that point, I had no real understanding of what goes on within AEDC on a day-to-day basis. In retrospect, I didn’t get it that much better after the brief. It wasn’t until I was lucky

  • Pursuing Mission Excellence: Striving to be “Second to None”

    “Pursue Mission Excellence,” “Invest in our People,” “Improve and Sustain the Complex;” the three priorities laid out by AEDC leadership “to prove the systems required to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy” and put us on a path towards “Sec­ond to None.”What does mission excellence

  • Pursuing mission excellence and employing squadron-level power at its finest

    The 704th Test Group’s Aerospace Survivability and Safety Office, or 704 TG/OL-AC, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, supports DOD acquisition and sustainment requirements with specialized Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, or RDT&E, capabilities and subject matter expertise

  • Bats hit the mark – guidance in the dark

    The men and women of the 746th Test Squadron, or 746 TS, get after the objectives of the 2018 National Defense Strategy every day. In fact, the “Bats” have been at the leading edge of these efforts since before it was cool!For more than 60 years, the 746 TS has tested and evaluated critical

  • A view from the world’s largest wind tunnel

    AEDC’s expertise in low-speed aerodynamic testing resides at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex, or NFAC, a geographically separated unit located on the NASA Ames Research Center campus in Mountain View, Calif.The NFAC is primarily used for determining the aerodynamic characteristics of