Story by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 01.04.2024
The deadline to submit ideas for the 2024 Arnold Engineering Development Complex Spark Tank is Jan. 12. Spark Tank is the Department of the Air Force’s Annual showcase event in which selected Airmen, Guardians and contractors pitch innovative solutions to difficult Air Force and Space Force problems needing Senior Leadership support to succeed while also inspiring more innovation across the......
Story by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.09.2023
The potential impact a project previously awarded funding through the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Spark Tank program could have across the Air Force Materiel Command enterprise did not go unnoticed. That project – the acquisition of an acoustic imager – was selected as one of three semifinalists in the AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities challenge. It was among 32......
Courtesy Story | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.29.2023
Building off the success of this year’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex Spark Tank program, which produced a top-three idea currently being reviewed by the commander of Air Force Materiel Command, AEDC are being asked to submit their innovative ideas. Ideas for the 2024 Spark Tank may be submitted beginning Oct. 1. “The Spark Tank program will allow AEDC employees to showcase their......
Story by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 08.07.2023
When it comes to saving lives, seconds count. Having life-saving knowledge and the tools at hand is essential for success in the business of being a first responder. None understand this more than the crew at Arnold Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services, or FES. The department was recently awarded with two LUCAS 3 Chest Compression Systems with funding provided by the AEDC Spark Tank......
Story by Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 03.23.2023
Arnold Engineering Development Complex team members were recently granted funding for their innovative ideas as part of the 2023 AEDC Spark Tank. An announcement was made in October 2022 calling all innovators to submit their ideas, and the last day for submissions was Jan.13. The AEDC Spark Tank program allows members of the AEDC workforce to propose suggestions for how to improve AEDC......
Story by Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.30.2022
Building off the success of this year’s AEDC Spark Tank program, AEDC personnel are once again being asked to submit their latest innovative ideas for the next one starting Oct. 1....
Story by Bradley Hicks and Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.21.2022
To say temperatures produced by some of the test facilities within the Arnold Engineering Development Complex are hot is a bit of an understatement. Such test cells, like the arc-heated facilities at Arnold Air Force Base, headquarters of AEDC, can produce temperatures up to 3,000 degrees Celsius. That’s hotter than the earth’s thermosphere, the center of a campfire, the surfaces of both......
Story by Deidre R Moon | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 08.18.2022
– The 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, will be integrating new smart radios to improve and adapt the current flight test capabilities and meet the increasing need to support rapid software-based development technologies. The 586 FLTS is part of the 704th Test Group, which is a unit of Arnold Engineering Development Complex, headquartered at Arnold Air Force......
