Nevada Field Site

The Nevada Field Site establishes the Laboratory's presence in the Southwestern United States to conduct work in support of the Department of the Air Force. Its primary mission is to perform field testing to validate modeling and performance, quantify unknowns, and better understand the phenomenology of developmental Air Force assets.

With its proximity to Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases, the Nevada Field Site offers support through test ideation, test planning and logistics, data collection, and data analysis. The site is staffed by about a dozen Laboratory employees, who typically serve assignments of three to four years. Since the site's establishment in the 1980s, staff have worked closely with two Laboratory aircraft: the Airborne Sensor Test Bed and the Airborne Countermeasure Test System.