Outcome 5.3: Test Capabilities

Ensure the availability to the Nation of NASA-owned, strategically important test capabilities.

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NASA has one of the largest, most versatile, and comprehensive sets of research and test facilities in the world. Our programs, other Federal agencies, and the private sector use the facilities to test and evaluate items to mitigate risk and optimize engineering designs. This work spans the engineering life cycle, from basic research to developing a discrete technology, to a full subsystem and system development. We manage our facilities and make strategic investments to ensure that ready access to comprehensive testing, with our flight research assets and in our state-of-the-art ground test facilities, is available for our missions and to the public and private sectors. We provide the vision and leadership for these nationally important assets and sustained support for their workforce, capability improvements, and new test technology development. By staying up to date on technological advances, industry demand, and issues that concern the public, we are able to make decisions on facility investments and divestments. Additionally, we are responsible for building and maintaining a well-coordinated suite of national testing capabilities in collaboration with DOD through the National Partnership for Aeronautical Testing. Looking to the future, we will continue to develop and implement a facility investment and divestment plan that fully supports the current and long-term missions of NASA, DOD, and American industry.

Stakeholder(s):

• DOD


• National Partnership for Aeronautical Testing


• American Industry

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