Edwards AFB News

  • Interorganizational synergy fuels successful test outcome

    Synergy across organizations and across services was on full display during a recent deployment of three F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, 75 Marines and 21 JSF operational test team members from Edwards to Florida where they successfully completed five live-fire events using AIM-120 air-to-air

  • Introducing your new 412th TW command chief

    Chief Master Sgt. Todd Simmons is the new 412th Test Wing command chief.Simmons hails from Hardeeville, South Carolina, and is a 21-year security forces defender. He will serve as the top enlisted advisor to Brig. Gen. Carl Schaefer, 412th Test Wing commander, on matters regarding the Edwards

  • Investing in energy conservation expected to save millions

    More than a dozen Energy Conservation Investment Program projects will soon break ground Air Force-wide and are expected to save the Air Force more than $4 million a year. The Fiscal 2009 Military Construction appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of Defense provided $22.6 million for ECIP

  • Investing in the future: 412th MXS hosts high school students on tour

    Nearly 30 students from Victor Valley High School received a close look at the 412th Maintenance Squadron’s Propulsion Flight during a tour of Edwards Air Force Base, California, Dec. 3. The students were members of the high school’s aviation maintenance classes, which include airframe and power

  • Iraqis get help from Coalition forces

    Citizens of Bedouin camps located in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah near Contingency Operating Base Adder are receiving continued help from Coalition forces through humanitarian aid operations. An operation, Dec. 16, included Soldiers from 4th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team,

  • Iron Man stars in 15th Free Exchange-Exclusive Marvel Comic Book

    Iron Man, the world-famous Armored Avenger, joins the U.S. Military to defend America from the dastardly dragon Fin Fang Foom in Marvel Comics' fifteenth free, military-exclusive comic book, available only at Army & Air Force Exchange Service locations worldwide.In the all-new 36-page comic, an evil

  • It takes a team: Telling the Edwards story is a group effort

    Edwards Air Force Base is world-famous in the flight test world. From the XP-59 Airacomet, the first military jet fighter in the U.S., to the F-22 and the F-35, virtually every aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory has been tested in the skies over Edwards. But flight testing is just one facet of