Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), the company that conducts testing operations at AEDC, has earned an award fee of $5,974,000 for the second half of the last fiscal year. The Air Force recently announced that ATA was awarded an overall rating of 94 for the most recent six-month evaluation period. ATA has earned a total award fee of $11.7 million for fiscal year 2012, including $5.7million for the first six-month period in addition to the nearly $6 million in profit the company earned for the second half of the year. Operations at AEDC have been outsourced since the base opened in 1951.