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Research center deputy reflects on career s blessings | Military Scene

Some of the best experiences in Col. Eric Rannow’s military career happened when he did not get the duty assignment he wanted. Rannow has served as military deputy at the Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center since 2018, coming to Redstone from his previous assignment as the Test Center commander of White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. After White Sands, Rannow said he initially hoped to move back to the National Capital Region and finish his career at the Pentagon. But instead his last duty station would be Redstone Arsenal, which would become an unexpected blessing. Rannow, in typical form, took the change in stride, remembering a time early in his military career when he asked to be stationed in Germany but instead was sent to Fort Hood, Texas.

Decade of work develops award-winning graphic

Andrew Wissink will be quick to tell you that although he is the leader of the Helios team, their success is a group effort. The team of Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center engineers who created Helios has been recognized with an ALTie award from Army AL&T magazine. Although their graphic “Turbulent Model” was a 2020 award recipient, its backstory was a decade in the making. “The Helios team has been working on developing this software for the last 10 years,” Wissink said “It is a combination of work on the part of the developers who built the software, but it is also evidence of the high performance computing power that the DOD has available – and how those capabilities came together to model and visualize rotorcraft phenomena we previously could only do through flight tests.”

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