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The Plum Brook Management Office:

Plum Brook Station is the home of Glenn Research Center's four world class test facilities which are are available for use by research customers interested in  planning and scheduling test programs and test-related activities.  The Plum Brook Management Office (PBMO) provides the overall oversight and strategic management to ensure customers’ requirements are satisfied, and that the facilities are available and optimally utilized.  Plum Brook Station personnel advocate, develop, schedule, and maintain the major research facilities in a safe, reliable, cost-effective manner, using effective marketing strategies and  sound practices.

The staff at Plum Brook provides safety, operational, and engineering support to the research customer, whom NASA, military, civilian and other government agencies.  This support includes assurance of operational test facilities; test planning; project management to prepare the research article for testing; integration of the research hardware into the test facility; operation of the test facility, including calibrations; development or incorporation of new test technologies; data validation and analysis, and delivery of data to the customer.

In addition to the testing services above, Plum Brook also manages the operation and maintenance of the buildings, test facilities and associated systems, equipment, and infrastructure.  Plum Brook provides  risk management and oversight for large, dangerous, high-risk test facilities; quality oversight for high-risk/mission-critical ground test programs; financial management and oversight of a near full-cost recovery, market economy operation; technical oversight to assure safety and mission success; environmental compliance, security for Information Technology (IT) sensitive test programs and the Plum Brook infrastructure.

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