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March 15, 2022
Community support of Arnold AFB recognized by the Great American Defense Communities program

Located in middle Tennessee, Arnold Air Force Base is home to the headquarters of Arnold Engineering Development Complex and a suite of aerospace testing facilities that are vital to the development of national defense systems. The workforce contributes to and is supported by the surrounding
March 11, 2022
Melissa Tate becomes first female McKinley Climatic Laboratory site director

Melissa Tate, who has served as the lead engineer and deputy of the Propulsion Test Branch, Test Division, Arnold Engineering Development Complex, since April 2019, will take on a new role as McKinley Climatic Laboratory site director at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, beginning next month.The
Feb. 25, 2022
Using standard models provides beneficial data prior to customer tests in AEDC wind tunnels

To validate the latest capabilities of the wind tunnels, Arnold Engineering Development Complex team members in the Aerodynamics Test Branch conducted testing last year on standard models in 16T and 16S, 16-foot transonic and supersonic wind tunnels, and Tunnels B and C, 50-inch hypersonic wind
Feb. 15, 2022
AEDC personnel honored with annual awards ceremony

Arnold Engineering Development Complex leadership honored military and civilian government annual award winners and nominees during a ceremony Feb. 11 at Arnold Air Force Base. The ceremony was also broadcast on Microsoft Teams, with the 704th Test Group also holding an in-person ceremony at their
Feb. 8, 2022
AFMC commander hosts virtual town hall from Arnold AFB

Coronavirus safeguards, efforts to bolster diversity across the Air Force Materiel Command and telework were among the topics broached by AFMC Commander Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr. during a Jan. 27 virtual town hall broadcast from Arnold Air Force Base.The hour-long town hall, streamed via Microsoft
Feb. 4, 2022
AEDC once supported Air Force Olympic hopefuls in quest for winter games glory

The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. Athletes from around the globe are competing in a myriad of events that showcase their years of training and dedication. Many spectators in the stands and viewers at home are likely awed by the lightning-quick maneuvers of the Alpine skiers, the
Jan. 18, 2022
Arnold AFB website gets new look

The Air Force Public Web Program has implemented a new website design for Air Force websites. The new design went live Jan. 14 on the Arnold Air Force Base website, www.arnold.af.mil. The site was “frozen,” with no new content being published, for about a week to allow for the update.
Jan. 12, 2022
Innovative ideas sought for new AEDC Spark Tank program

Arnold Engineering Development Complex personnel with innovative ideas – no matter how big or small – to improve AEDC are invited to share their suggestions. Doing so could lead to funding to progress their implementation. The new AEDC Spark Tank is underway and open to military, DOD civilians and
Dec. 21, 2021
Members of Team AEDC remember two of their own on the 50th anniversary of their passing

Two weeks before Christmas a little more than a half-century ago, John T. Hill and Alvin D. Overman were charged with carrying out a routine job inside a small building behind the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Model Shop at Arnold Air Force Base.It was there that both of their lives
Dec. 14, 2021
Arnold AFB workforce serves more than 200 local children through AEDC Angel Tree

An old adage warns against judging a book by its cover.This expression certainly applied to the nondescript garbage bags that by the morning of Dec. 6 had lined the floor and shelves of the former barber shop at Arnold Air Force Base, headquarters of Arnold Engineering Development Complex.On the

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