Jay Pittman Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

As a member of the NASA Emeritus program, I support special strategic initiatives for Goddard and the Agency. My specific interests are in advancing US and Allied space architectures and capabilities, developing future leaders, giving voice to new visionaries, and supporting the role of science in society and the opportunities afforded by space and space access.

Greenbelt, Md

-- I formulate and lead the development of strategic relationships between Goddard and: Other centers, Other agencies, Industry, and International Partners.-- I formulate and lead strategic initiatives for Goddard in order to position Goddard and NASA for what comes next in our journey into space.-- I lead NASA's On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) initiative, which serves as the multi-federal steward for our Nation's use of these technologies in partnership with industry.

Wallops Island, Va

I formulated and led special initiatives for Wallops Flight Facility to ensure alignment with NASA and external partner strategic thrusts. Areas of focus included Classified Programs, Employee Retention, Metrology and Calibration, and Capability Management.

Nasa Hq, Washington Dc

After serving on the Agency Technical Capabilities Assessment Team, I have been serving as the Capability Leadership Advisor for the Agency's Capability Leaders in the areas of Guidance Navigation & Control, Flight Mechanics, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Systems, Electrical Power Systems, and Aircraft Operations. In this role I assist the capability leaders as they seek to optimize NASA's management and application of these technical areas. I help leaders and technical experts in these fields understand the interrelationships of their fields to other fields and to navigate the NASA Governance Model and intra-agency issues that arise from their strategies and initiatives.

Nasa Hq, Washington Dc

At the request of senior Agency leadership I led a team of technical leaders from 8 NASA Centers in a broad assessment of NASA's facilities, the effectiveness of related processes, and strategic opportunities for re-visioning associated Agency-level processes and strategies. I led the team in site visits, benchmarking other government, academia, and industry practices, and in making recommendations for change to the highest levels of agency leaders. Our team's guidance was embraced by the agency and implementation is underway, and I continue to advise the implementation teams.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

in late 2013, I was asked to join the NASA Technical Capabilities Assessment Team (TCAT) as an Agency-level detail assignment. The TCAT is a small Agency team that works directly for the Agency senior leadership. TCAT performs detailed analysis of Agency capabilities and activities relative to current and future requirements.. These analyses, called "deep dives"​, spanned the breadth of NASA's work. As a part of the TCAT Core Team of just 6 technical experts, I led or provided guidance to high visibility studies of major operations and R&D activities at NASA including aircraft operations, nuclear systems, spacecraft mission operations, and numerous others. I worked directly with Agency senior leaders to develop observations and opportunities for realignment of Agency resources, workforce, capabilities, and goals. I completed comprehensive technical assessments of NASA's work in Mission Operations, Aircraft Operations, Nuclear Power and Propulsion systems, Spacecraft Bus systems, and I provided summaries, observations, and recommendations for changes in these and other areas to Agency senior leadership. I also supported assessments of NASA's "stranded" capabilities and the impacts of the current competition and governance model used by the Agency to assign and manage its workload.

Wallops Island, Va

I served as the Wallops Associate Director for Special Projects. In this role, I wasresponsible for project management of NASA Wallops'​ portfolio of highly visible, multi-discipline, and cross-cutting projects. I was tasked with leading an organization of senior project managers and assuring that a strong and consistent management approach is implement across projects under Wallops'​ management. In this role, I provided leadership for all project phases including project formulation and concept development, preliminary and critical design, implementation, operations, sustainment, and closeout. I ensured consistency with and appropriate tailoring of Center and Agency standards during the execution of these projects, and I developed, mentored, and trained project managers and subsystem managers to grow expertise in these areas within NASA Wallops. The portfolio of Wallops projects under my leadership included Wallops' ISS Resupply Services, the ISS Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) project, the Low Density SuperSonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, LADEE Launch Services Project, as well as EV2 and SmallSat development projects.

I am the Program Manager and Commander of NASA's Launch Range at Wallops Flight Facility where I also supervise and manage the Facility's team of project managers. As Range Commander, I serve in the following functional roles for NASA:*Manage the implementation of the $20+M/year Research Range operational budget in support of SubOrbital and Special Orbital missions launched by NASA, DoD, and industry.*Provide tactical and strategic leadership for the Wallops Launch Range including managing new business opportunities and inter-organizational relationships with other NASA and non-NASA entities and agencies using or supporting the Range.*Oversee technology investments supporting NASA Wallops as a Test Range for the other National Ranges at Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, and Kwajalein.*Review and approve flight requests for flight projects operating from Wallops Research Range or supported by its mobile assets worldwide.*Oversee operational and developmental project implementation by NASA and civil servant project teams.*Design and implement Range-wide processes supportive of efficient operations for NASA, DoD, and commercial customers.*Serve as the NASA Program Lead for GSFC's Commercial Orbital Transport to Station (COTS) and Commercial Resupply of Station (CRS) missions in partnership with Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) and the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS).NASA Technical Representative to the Range Commanders Council.

I served as a software engineer and then the supervisor (branch level) in a team of more than 30 civil servant software developers at Wallops Flight Facility.*Responsible for maintenance and development of new software for safety critical, real time software systems in the Wallops Range.*Project Manager for the Automated Wallops Orbital Tracking Station effort which automated and integrated Wallops' worldwide network of Near Earth Network ground stations.*Project Manager for the Advanced Range Technology Initiative (ARTI) responsible for conceptualization and implementation of transformational Range technologies for the the Wallops Launch Range.

I served as a systems analyst and software developer supporting data analysis of data collected from foreign targets.*I designed, developed, analyzed, enhanced, and documented highly parallelized C code for use on Sun/Sparc and Cray systems. The software was used by intelligence analysts to assess information content of collected data.*I taught several courses in C to existing staff as part of a large Fortran to C conversion initiative involving millions of lines of code.*I was selected to take the Agency's signature 6-month course in Cryptanalysis and completed this highly selective course, becoming a member of the Dundee Society.*I left the position voluntarily to pursue my "dream job" with NASA.