Wallops Program Receives "Best" Award..

(excerpts from PRNewswire)

Wallops Aircraft Office Recognized as the Best in the Federal Government

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/

 -- NASA's Wallops Flight  Facility Aircraft Office in

Virginia has been recognized as the best small aviation

program in the Federal government by the General

Services Administration and  the  Interagency

Committee for Aviation Policy.

The Wallops aircraft team provides NASA and

 commercial platforms for worldwide airborne scientific 

research, technology development, cargo airlift, launch

range  surveillance and recovery, and remotely piloted 

aircraft systems and required chase operations.

The award is provided to agencies that have 

demonstrated their flight programs support for the

success of the agency's mission. An independent panel 

of aviation experts judge agencies based on aircraft

administration, operations, maintenance, training and 

safety.

In 2014, Wallops participated in 30 NASA airborne 

science missions, flying more than  2,000 flight hours

Both were records surpassing all previous marks

during the office's 45 years.

These aircraft support NASA missions across the
United States from the east to west coasts, as well as Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Africa and
Antarctica.

In addition, Wallops recently opened and conducted 

missions from a new Global Hawk Operations Center 

(GHOC-East) control center. The GHOC allows NASA to

conduct Global Hawk operations worldwide, including

missions to study Atlantic tropical storms.

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