Special Staff

Special Staff

The Advanced Technology Directorate is responsible for planning future investments to ensure that Yuma Proving Ground has the technological resources necessary to sustain Army testing requirements. The directorate fully evaluates leading edge technologies to determine what role, if any, they can play in forwarding the mission of the proving ground.

The Natural Environments Test Office provides technical expertise, products, and services related to increasing knowledge of the world's natural environments, and applies that knowledge to improve environmental testing. This ensures that American forces are ready to deploy effectively anywhere in the world. The office is the center of excellence for natural environment testing methodologies and maintains a natural environments lessons learned database and reference library.