Arnold Engineering and Development Center in Tennessee is overseeing the reactivation of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex at Moffett Field, Calif., and expects to see it reopen, after a three-year hiatus, in December. NFAC, billed as the world’s largest wind tunnel, will become an AEDC remote operating location. AEDC has employed Remote Access Technology of Rodeo, Calif., as well as a new NFAC operating workforce and former staff to reactivate the facility.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
