Welcome to Employee Orientation for new and transferring Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) employees. This site provides the essential information, forms, contacts, and checklists that you will need to begin working at DFRC. Your orientation starts here and will continue with onsite in-processing, briefings, training, and management receptions. To get started, select your employee type from the list above and follow the checklist.

Center Director - David D. McBride

Welcome to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center . As you may know, since 1946 engineers and pilots from NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, have been conducting pioneering flight research above Rogers Dry Lake and the Mojave Desert . Our proud heritage includes the X-1, X-15, Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire, F-8 Supercritical Wing, the Space Shuttle, and many other research vehicles that have contributed enormously to the nation’s aerospace technologies.  + More