David D. McBride is founder and principle of McBride Consulting and Solutions LLC. He has over forty years of experience in strategic leadership, leadership team development, organizational culture building, and groundbreaking technology research and development. McBride provides technical guidance for aerospace and engineering with a focus on airworthiness and flight systems. He also offers guidance on all aspects of technical and organizational leadership and development. McBride was director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, from January 2009, until his retirement from NASA on June 30, 2022. During McBride's tenure as director, the center achieved: