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Marina Van Sickle and Skylar Wadas were selected to present their recent work at the 2024 Aircraft Airworthiness and Sustainment conference in San Antonio, TX. Marina’s presentation was titled “Armament Digital Twin.” Skyler presented on the topic of “Using Empirical Loads Regression to Support Damage Tolerance Analysis.” Their presentations will be published in the conference…

MERC is pleased to announce that we have been selected as one of 67 companies that will participate in the nine-year $975 million Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office Multiple Award Contract (RSO-MAC). This contract will assist the Air Force in optimizing the operational readiness and life cycle sustainment costs of Air Force assets. MERC has…

Summer engineering interns Brady Blake (UGA) and Aaron Schneider (Mercer) work on damage limit testing in MERC’s tensile test laboratory. From coupon construction to destructive testing, they are involved in the entire process of the investigation. As part of a major aircraft tooling reverse engineering program, engineering interns Lucas Garza (Georgia Tech) and Niall Walsh…

Summer interns Katie Gibbs (Georgia Tech), Kevin Garza (Georgia Tech), and Steven Carter (Georgia Southern) are working in MERC’s Electronic Warfare and Avionics Product Area supporting the United States Air Force. They are getting hands-on experience with applications such as signal analysis, RF systems, and electronics/avionics design.

MERC was pleased to host a group of local high school students who are participating in the Student Pathways Program (SPP) sponsored by Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR/ALC). These students toured MERC’s facility and several of MERC’s summer engineering interns presented their latest projects and answered questions.

Mercer University undergraduate and graduate interns are working with MERC engineers to support the United States Navy helicopter fleet. The interns are using 3-D models, real damage records, and a retired H-60 helicopter to provide Naval Air Systems Command with a digital map of all historical damage. As well as learning hands-on engineering skills, these…

Andrew Smelser, Aerospace Engineer, was proud to participate in the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Along with 75 members of the Liberty Jump Team, Andrew completed three static-line parachute jumps that commemorated the invasion of Normandy: (1) Amfreville, (2) La Fière, and (3) Mont-Saint-Michel. His first two jumps were out of C-47 “Skytrains” both of which…

Elizabeth Greene, Tristan Quinn, Brittany Billups, and Ryan Porterfield developed and currently administer the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center website and database, which was established by the Mercer University School of Medicine to address the health care challenges in rural Georgia communities. The website, Community Health Reporter, enables volunteers to record data on available health-related…

MERC is pleased to welcome 15 engineering interns from Mercer, Georgia Tech, UGA, and Kennesaw State who are pictured from left to right: Brady Blake (UGA), Caleb Cook (Mercer), David Reeves (Georgia Tech), Lucas Garza (Georgia Tech), Steven Carter (Georgia Southern), Katie Gibbs (Georgia Tech), Kevin Garza (Georgia Tech), Drew Jackson (Mercer), David Schmitz (Georgia…

Congratulations to Jim Hundley, Sr. Director of Engineering and Programs, for being recognized “For extraordinary contributions to the F4G Program and USAF Wild Weasel capability.” He accepted the award at the Wild Weasel conference on 13 April in Ft. Walton Beach. Jim served as lead engineer in designing hardware and software for the Wild Weasel…