Improving Delivery of Capital Improvement Projects at Arnold Engineering Development Center

摘要

Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is the largest, most advanced complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world. The center operates 58 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges, and other specialized units. Our mission is to provide our customers with the world's most effective and affordable aerospace ground test and evaluation products and services and to ensure AEDC test facilities, technologies, and knowledge fully support today's and tomorrow's customers. Maintaining and improving AEDC's facilities is a continuous task. It involves major repair and modernization efforts on existing capabilities and building new capabilities to test weapons systems planned for future deployment. Investments in these efforts are on the order of