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It's important to make sure we have

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requirements in order, and to make

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sure we are spending the taxpayers'

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dollars wisely.

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My name is Maikeyza Brown, I work for

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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in the

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Acquisition Management Office and we

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procure things for the federal government.

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It could be anything from an aircraft

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part to the aircraft itself.

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It's amazing when you come to work and

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they have the hangar door up and you can

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see the aircraft sitting there, and you

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see the guys sitting there and they're

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doing what they do to support the

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NASA Dryden mission.  It just makes you

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feel connected to what you're doing.

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And, for me that's really important

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because it just makes you realize how

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important the work is that we do here.

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Growing up in the inner city of

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Washington DC, um, being raised by a

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single mother, my father passed away

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when I was in junior high, high school.

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I think that if you are from a background

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where society has already classified you,

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where you have been told that you are

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a statistic, that you can look at people

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who have aspired past those

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obstacles in life.  What's important is

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that you work hard, and anything that

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someone tells you you can't do,

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that's your challenge.  You work hard

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to do that.  No matter how hard things

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are, or no matter what you're faced with,

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you can overcome it if you just believe