AFTC VISION
"Warfighter's First Choice - Forging Our Nation's Sword and Shield."
The Air Force Test Center is headquartered at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and leads the developmental test and evaluation (T&E) mission for the United States Air Force. AFTC conducts developmental test and evaluation of air, space, and cyber weapon and flight systems to provide timely, objective, and accurate information to decision makers. AFTC has three primary locations across Air Force Materiel Command to include:
- Arnold Engineering and Development Complex (AEDC), Arnold AFB, Tennessee
- 412th Test Wing, Edwards AFB, California
- 96th Test Wing, Eglin AFB, Florida.
SPAN OF OPERATIONS
- 34 Locations Total
- $2.9B Annual Budget
- $31B in DoD Facilities and Test Ranges
- 75 Aircraft (13 Different Variants)
- 200 Ground Test Facilities
- 12 Test Cells unique to the world
96th Test Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, FL:
The 96th TW is the test and evaluation center for Air Force air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, Command and Control systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command systems. The wing provides expert evaluation and validation of the performance of systems throughout the design, development, acquisition, and sustainment process to ensure the warfighter has technologically superior, reliable, maintainable, sustainable and safe systems.
412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, CA:
The 412th Test Wing plans, conducts, analyzes, and reports on all flight and ground testing of aircraft, weapons systems, software and components as well as modeling and simulation for the USAF. There are three core components for this mission: flying operations, maintenance, and engineering. Through a maintenance group of over 2,000 people and an operations group of 3,000, the test wing maintains and flies an average of 90 aircraft and performs over 7,400 missions on an annual basis.
Arnold Engineering Development Complex, Arnold AFB, TN & Holloman AFB, NM:
The AEDC conducts developmental testing and evaluation for the Nation through ground and flight testing, modeling, and simulation. Testing will evaluate aircraft, missile, and space systems/subsystems at the flight conditions they will experience during a mission. The AEDC operates more than 68 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges, sled tracks, centrifuges and other specialized units.
