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Committee, the group that organizes presentations of the Antelope Valley’s Mobile Vietnam War Memorial.
The AV Wall, as it is known, is a half-scale tribute to the Vietnam War Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. It concluded an annual display at the Palmdale Amphitheater at the close of the Veterans Day weekend observa- tions.
She also lauded the Veterans Alliance that meets quarterly at Mental Health America of the Antelope Valley, and the work done by MHA leader Judy Cooperberg in standing up a Military Resource Center that provides housing support for veterans and families at risk of homelessness.
“These are groups that put back into the community, and they are heroes,” Suplisson said.
The commander joined with Cold War veteran Danny Bazzell in providing honoring remarks at the Veterans Ball. Bazzell, general manager of the Flight Test Historical Foundation, spoke on the service and jeopardy faced by all who served during the long Cold War stand- off with the world’s other superpower of that period, the Soviet Union.
Supplison was commissioned in 1991, just as the Cold War was ending, and just in time for all the challenges to national security that Americans have faced since then.
Her work at the test center in- volves developmental test and evalu- ation of experimental and research manned and unmanned air, space and cyber systems for military services, DARPA, NASA and international part- ners, in addition to operation of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.
Suplisson received her commission from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical En- gineering and a minor in German. Her first assignment was as an Electronic Warfare and Weapons Test Engineer at Eglin AFB, where she tested F-15, F-16 and F-5 aircraft. At Eglin, she was selected to attend U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards in Class 95A, a.k.a. the “Spin Doctors.”
After graduating from Test Pilot School, Suplisson stayed at Edwards and was assigned to the 416th Flight Test Squadron where she performed weapons and avionics flight testing on U.S. and foreign military sales F-16s. She then moved to the 410th Flight Test Squadron at Air Force Plant 42, Palm- dale, Calif., where she served as a flight test engineer and flight commander for F-117 low observable and weapons test- ing.
In 2000, she was selected to study in France for the Olmsted Scholarship. She was a Distinguished Graduate in the French Basic Course at the Defense
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From left: Judy Cooperberg, Col. Angela W. Suplisson, vice commander of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and Rep. Steve Knight, R-Calif., at the Nov. 4 Veterans Military Ball hosted at the University of the Antelope Valley.
tional Program Manager for Canada, Italy and Turkey.
From 2006 to 2007 she was the F-16 Program Element Monitor in the Direc- torate of Global Power, responsible for the budget of the F-16 in SAF/AQ at the Pentagon. From 2007 to 2009, she served as commander, 846th Test Squadron, 46th Test Group, 46th Test Wing, Hollo- man Air Force Base, N.M., where she led 120 people at the Holloman High Speed Test Track in the design, fabrication and testing of sub-, super- and hypersonic rocket sled-borne systems.
From 2009 to 2011, she was the Dep- uty for Plans and Programs, the Deputy Department Head, and an Instructor of Aeronautics in the Department of Aero- nautics, US Air Force Academy. She earned her doctorate in Aeronautical Engineering with research in optimal aircraft trajectories for automatic ground collision avoidance systems in 2015 at the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Colonel Suplisson led the Department of Aeronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 2015-2016, and led the Unmanned Aerial Systems Center from 2015-2017, responsible for all UAS re- search and UAS airmanship training at the US Air Force Academy.
Editor’s note: This story includes ma- terial from Suplisson’s official Air Force biography.
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