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Dust Devil Mission

What We Do:

Testing and Evaluating current and future manned and unmanned aircraft, weapons, and weapons systems.
Operating the Airborne Test Bed program to provide cost-wise support to the Navy’s research community.
Conducting successful inland search and rescue operations throughout the high desert.

How We Do It:

Conduct ourselves with integrity and professionalism in all that we do.
Possess a relentless drive to be the most effective and efficient flight test organization possible.
Prioritize our families. Nothing done here is possible without their support. They need yours, too!
Execute safe flight test. Management of risk in a flight tests is critical.
Communicate to your sponsors and to your chain of command in a timely manner. We can not effect change if we keep secrets.
Be experts in our jobs. Given the complexity and costs in performing our mission, it would be irresponsible not to be.

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