Dennis Stone Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, California, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Founder and CEO of non-profit organization which is the global coordinator of UN-declared World Space Week, October 4-10 annually, the largest space event on Earth. WSW last year included over 6,000 events in 96 nations attracting over 700 million Twitter impressions. Organically grew both the Association and WSW over decades to this scale. Supervises a small paid staff and volunteers. Works with developing nation space agencies and aerospace companies. Manages Boards of Advisors and Directors with global space leaders. Represents the Association annually at the IAC and reports annually to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna.

• Responsible for leading Program Policy, Market Development, Partnerships, and Communication• Advises CLDP Program Management (PM) team on market development, policy gaps and impacts, and communications strategies• Keeps Program management apprised of industry trends and policy implications that could affect successful development of CLDs• Supports CLDP Program Management team in communicating CLDP strategy, objectives, plans, and progress to internal and external stakeholders.• Participates as a member of the CLDP Program Acquisition strategy team during the planning and coordination stages providing advice, training, technical, and operational information.

Helped start NASA's Commercial LEO Development Program Office. Led formulation of the Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) acquisition strategy and Announcement. Was Deputy Chair and Business Lead of the CLD Evaluation Panel which resulted in awards to three CLD partners. Led negotiations of Funded Space Act Agreements. Managed NASA CLD partnership with Blue Origin/Sierra Space. Chaired the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC2) competition. Worked with ISS-user organizations across NASA to forecast NASA's CLD service requirements. Managed demand stimulation including in-space production technology investments. Supported development of crew/human rating requirements, long-range budgets, and policies and plans for the CLD services procurement that is planned for no earlier than 2025.Trains NASA personnel on choosing between commercial and traditional methods of acquisition. Serves as expert advisor to commercial programs at NASA such as Communication Services Project and Tipping Point.

Facilitated NASA-wide technical support to four companies which were competitively awarded Unfunded Space Act Agreements: SpaceX on Starship, ULA on Vulcan/Centaur, Northrop Grumman on satellite servicing, and Final Frontier Design on space suits.

Chaired the Business Committee during both Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) investment rounds totaling $800M in SpaceX (Falcon 9 and Dragon) and Orbital Sciences (Antares and Cygnus). Hired a VC and instilled an investor mindset among the NASA team. Stimulated demand for microgravity by the bio/pharma industry. Measured gaps in company researchers’ awareness of microgravity benefits and planned new approaches to fill those gaps. Created/led a successful microgravity competition to reach new customers working with the Biotechnology Industry Organization and other external partners.Led NASA's first investment of $50M in commercial crew capabilities (CCDev-1) as business lead and project facilitator. Supported C3PO leadership in all facets of program management, advised partners in finance and marketing activities, worked with the FAA to prepare for commercial licensing, and served as a Program spokesperson.

Managed all ISS avionics systems: Guidance, Navigation & Control; Command & Data Handling; Communications & Tracking; and Integrated LAN. Negotiated ISS Software Management Plan and control board charter with the International Partners and organized board meetings in the Netherlands and Japan.Led early efforts in ISS commercialization. Formed and cochaired commercialization working group. Identified early commercial pathfinders and policy issues. Invented the ISS Program’s risk management software and trained teams to effectively manage risk. Worked with the X-38 team developing a lifting body rescue vehicle. Led engineering team defining Soyuz-ISS adapter concept.

After Challenger, led the team that defined crew rescue missions that ACRV should perform. Team included NASA crew, doctors, reliability & safety, and engineers for the Langley HL-20 lifting body and a modified Apollo command module. Used cost/benefit analysis to assess a dozen potential missions, recommending only three. Developed top-level system requirements and documented per Mil-Std.Helped select Lockheed and Rockwell for an ACRV design competition under NASA contract. Managed the system engineering process. Developed System Engineering Management Plan and Data Book, covering such system elements as embedded Search & Rescue and environmental models.

Created and led NASA project that sought to redirect NASA's massive purchasing power into buying services/data instead of systems. Studied past USG experience in public-private partnerships and captured lessons learned. Coordinated with top Agency leadership to institutionalize the knowledge.Advised NASA's Associate Administrator-Space Systems Development on multiple ways of acquiring Soyuz for Space Station crew rescue. As a direct result, Agency plans changed from purchasing/owning the Soyuz to purchasing the rescue service.

Founded and leads early-stage firm developing cancer therapeutics based on coordination chemistry. Developed detailed business plan and pitched to investors. Raised seed capital. Awarded Most Promising Life Science Company pitch competition at Rice Alliance. Manages in-vivo and in-vitro testing and other pre-clinical development activity.

Responsible for managing a portfolio of investments by the Space Station Program in avionics technology development. Also responsible for the Station Program's flight experiments on the Space Shuttle to demonstrate technologies across multiple disciplines. Authored the Program's Technology Transfer Plan.

In NASA Space Shuttle Program Office, responsible for mass communications to Shuttle payload customers. Wrote/edited the Mission Integration Bulletin. Selected as the only contractor to accompany high-level NASA delegation to train Shuttle customers in Germany, France, Italy, and U.K. Helped create NASA's Shuttle Customer Service Center and designed customer data system.

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Designed and tested high-speed electronics for the NASA's Mission Control Center. Managed MCC upgrade projects from requirements development through customer acceptance testing.

Wrote software for the Payload Assist Module, a commercial Space Shuttle upper stage. Negotiated payload data interfaces with NASA. Wrote and tested microprocessor software.

B.S., Physics

B.S., Electrical Engineering