• STARBASE Takes Off: East Side Elementary lands at AFTC HQ

    STARBASE Edwards students from East Side Elementary in Lancaster, Calif., visit Air Force Test Center headquarters at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Dec. 10, 2025, to learn STEM lessons about the manpower and resources needed for aircraft design and production. STARBASE Edwards is a Defense

  • Developing Lethality: Steward of the Digital Thread

    Part 1: The Air Force Test Center’s Role in Warfighter DominanceIn a rapidly evolving battlespace, where peer threats continue to challenge global stability, the Department of the Air Force is accelerating its approach to warfighting readiness. Success on future battlefields will depend on how

  • Ralphie takes command of 605th TES

    Lt. Col. Brad “Ralphie” Short took command of the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron from Lt. Col. Leslie “Nilla” Woll during a change of command ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, June 14.

  • ETFC: Developing future test & evaluation leaders

    The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, graduated its Enlisted Test Fundamentals Course on August 25. Though taught shortly in 2012 and 2018, a sustainable course idea was rebirthed in 2019 and came to fruition in 2021 as the Enlisted Test Professionals Course has

  • AFTC: Evolving digital processes in line with new AFMC Strategic Plan

    Air Force Test Center has a head start on executing initiatives to support the Air Force Materiel Command’s 2023 Strategic Plan posturing efforts to deliver the advanced, integrated materiel capabilities the Air Force needs to deter aggression and prevail against the modern adversarial threats.

  • Orange Flag executes largest all-domain test focused on infrared spectrum

    Orange Flag, Air Force Test Center’s all-domain, large force test series focused on advanced technology, kill-web integration and analysis, returned for its second iteration this year at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. June 23. Forty-one airborne participants used the R-2508 Range and Sea Test Range

  • AFTC holds first digital engineering test and evaluation summit

    The summit served to share a vision for the future of digital transformation in test and evaluation, discuss challenges, highlight current efforts to expand digital engineering, and bring attendees together to create a collaborative digital modernization strategy to meet the future needs for digital

  • Better together: J-PRIMES/BAF collaborate to meet test demands

    The Air Force Test Center operates two anechoic chambers with overlapping missions, Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems (J-PRIMES) at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and the Benefield Anechoic Facility located at Edwards AFB, Calif.Recent chamber collaboration for a test at

  • AEDC reactivates 8-inch barrel for Hyper-ballistic Range G

    The Hypervelocity Flyout, Impact and Lethality Ground Test and Evaluation team of the Space Test Branch, Test Division, successfully reactivated the 8-inch-diameter barrel capability of Hyper-ballistic Range G after the 8-inch barrel sat unused for more than a decade.Range G, located at Arnold

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