VKF Modernization Program Team celebrates Zero Accident Award

Earlier this month, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) team members of the AEDC von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility (VKF) Modernization Program celebrated with barbecue and all the trimmings. Team members were honored with a series of luncheons at the Carroll Engineering Analysis Facility, Model Shop and VKF in recognition of their receipt of the “Jacobs Zero Accident Award.” The award is presented annually by Jacobs, ATA’s managing partner, to projects whose teams have worked 250,000 consecutive hours without an injury of motor vehicle incident. Catherine Plunkett, Director, ATA Safety, Health and Environmental congratulated these winners for demonstrating real leadership towards world-class safety and validating the level of safety excellence that all of us can strive to achieve. Projects included in this achievement were the VKF Modernization Test Investment Planning and Programming (TIPP), Upgrade V-Plant Controls, Tunnels A,B and C (ABC) Modernization TIPP, ABC Data Acquisition System, ABC Operations Center, ABC Shadowgraph/Schlieren, and Tunnel A Nozzle and Diffuser Actuators and Controls. (Photo By Jacqueline Cowan)