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  • Two local high school graduates receive Bechtel scholarships

    Two local high school graduates, who are children of employees with National Aerospace Solutions, the Test Operations and Sustainment contractor at Arnold Air Force Base, were recently announced as scholarship recipients through the 2019 Bechtel Global Scholars program.As scholarship winners, Kayden

  • Heavy workload expected for AEDC in 2019 and beyond

    The demand for testing at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex is expected to reach historic levels in many facilities during 2019 and continue into the foreseeable future… and U.S. Air Force leadership is noticing the work we do.The number of recent tours given to the U.S. Air Force

  • Students spring into science during camp at Hands-On Science Center

    A group of area students learned a variety of science lessons at the Hands-On Science Center in Tullahoma during the Spring Camp led by Olga Oakley, the AEDC Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics coordinator. According to Oakley, each day of the weeklong camp involved a new topic for the

  • AEDC team members recall their time spent supporting NASA’s X-43A project

    Several AEDC team members held a brief reunion last month to share memories and reflect on their work in support of the NASA X-43A, also known as the Hyper-X program.A little more than 15 years ago, NASA’s X-43A Hypersonic Vehicle set a world speed record, setting the Guinness World Record, for an

  • Change in staffing at the Arnold Air Force Base Veterans Affairs Clinic

    There has recently been a change in the staffing at the Veterans Affairs Clinic at Arnold Air Force Base.According to a representative with the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, the VA Clinic at Arnold now has one team instead of two seeing patients at the location because the number of patients

  • AEDC team members volunteer at Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games

    Athletes gathered May 2 at Tullahoma High School to compete in track and field events and bocce during the Tennessee Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games.Thirty-three AEDC team members, including military, DOD civilians and contract personnel, signed up to volunteer at the event. They assisted in

  • H-3 model positioning system undergoing upgrade

    Mickey Gipson, left, senior instrumentation, data and controls (ID&C) engineer, and Tabitha Clark, ID&C engineer, run checks April 19 on the operator interface of the model positioning system (MPS) for the H-3 test cell at Arnold Air Force Base. Several elements of the MPS were replaced as part of a