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Space and
Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate
Research and development, test and evaluation supporting the exploitation
of air and space.
- Employs approximately 400 military and civilian people
- An Air Force Materiel Command unit reporting to the Space and
Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles
- Close liaison with the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips
Site Directorates at Kirtland AFB
- Only organization of its kind in the Department of Defense. It
can integrate experiments onto a satellite, mate the satellite to
a booster, launch the booster and put the satellite into space,
command and control the satellite in orbit and bring the satellite
back to earth when its mission is completed
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