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I have retired from NASA with 36 year of service as of April 2019. Currently I'm with Booz-Allen-Hamilton supporting the NASA Gateway Program Office with early program formulation and requirement definitions.In early years, I was involved in many aspect of engineering, from designing a guidance algorithm for Shuttle to Station glideslope approach, to writing code and building sims to analyze ISS altitude maintenance and reboost strategy, to lab and field testing the NASA X38 Crew Rescue Vehicles, to name a few. In mid career, I joined the International Space Station (ISS) Program as the Element Manager for the JAXA HII-Transfer Vehicle (HTV), responsible for the integration of its first three successful flights to the ISS. The HTV continued to deliver critical supplies and payloads to the ISS today. During the later part of my career, I served as Manager of the International Partner (IP) Element and Visiting Vehicle Integration Office then as Manager of the Commercial Crew Integration Office. During my time as office manager, I also served as a key member of the NASA team that developed a new and innovative approach to procure commercial services for crew transportation to the ISS. Today, in 2018, we are on the verge of seeing test flights to the ISS for both commercial providers, Boeing and SpaceX. Currently, I serve as the Commercial Crew Program liaison to the ISSP, their IP, and the FAA. For the IP, my role is to get them comfortable that the US Commercial Vehicles will be safe for their astronauts to ride. It is a challenging endeavor, balancing between sharing information they would need to know to concur vs. limitations of data rights and export control restrictions . For my role with the FAA is to collaborate and seek commonality in requirements and process efficiencies for seamless transition from flight tests under the Government authority to commercial missions under the FAA authority for public safety.
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Commercial Crew Program Liaison To The Faa And The Issp International PartnersNasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Apr 2017 - PresentHouston, Texas AreaI serve as the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Mission Manager liaison to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA-AST) (Commercial Space Transportation Office) for launch and entry operations from Federal Ranges and separately, with International Space Station (ISS) Program International Partners (IPs) regarding the safe transportation of crew and cargo to/ from the ISS. As NASA transitions to commercial model for Low Earth Orbit (LEO), a tight cooperation between federal entities involved in launch and entry are necessary to assist the NASA commercial providers, Boeing and SpaceX, with a smooth transition from conducting flight tests under NASA authority to executing the licensed launches under the FAA authority. As the program lead, I facilitate effective collaboration among federal entities to ensure a mutual understanding of each agency’s goals and requirements for public safety, seek efficiencies to streamline the processes at the launch/entry sites, minimize duplications of efforts, and reduce contradictory regulations that could hamper commercial effectiveness of the NASA commercial providers. I also lead the Commercial Crew Program coordination with the IPs, assisting their agencies in assessment of the US Commercial Crew Vehicle (USCV) operations and safety to gain confidence that these vehicles are capable and safe to provide crew transportation to and from the International Space Station. To accomplish this task, I lead the program implementation balancing between vast amount of proprietary data that the IPs request to assure themselves that the USCVs are safe to ride versus the need to minimize highly competitive proprietary data to only what the IPs would need-to-know, versus the Government restriction on the data that can be exported. -
Nasa Technical Advisor To The Faa-AstNasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Apr 2016 - Apr 2017Washington D.C. Metro AreaI served as the primary interface between the FAA Space Operations Integration Division (AST) and the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Office. I advised the CCP program and the FAA managements on technical and programmatic issues, risks, and recommendations surrounding the FAA licensing approval of commercial vehicles that transport people and cargo to and from low earth orbit, in particular, companies involved with the NASA CCP program, namely SpaceX and Boeing, to promote a smooth transition from their test flights under NASA CCP authority to the Post Certification Mission (PCM) which will be licensed under the FAA authority. I also led a couple of special projects during this period (1) led the development of the Government Astronaut (GA) Guidance document to communicate to industries the FAA’s requirements associated with GA that would need to be included in their license applications for the PCMs. The development of this document required a quick turn-around (instead of the nominal lengthy timeline that it would require for rule making) to meet the NASA goals of returning human to space on US vehicles as early as possible. (2) Organized and conducted joint meetings and reviews with entities from the Air Force (45 Space Wings), the FAA, multiple disciplines at KSC, NASA Range Safety, and CCP personnel to integrate the roles and responsibilities of all entities involved, obtained a comprehensive understanding of each other activities, and how all entities should cooperate and integrate with one another to jointly operate commercial launches from the Cape Canaveral Air force Base and from KSC facilities. -
Manager, Commercial Crew Integration OfficeNasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Feb 2012 - Mar 2016Houston, Texas AreaServed as the manager of the newly formed Commercial Crew Integration (CCI) Office- Organized and staffed the office with resources and team members assuring that commitments were satisfied and that ISSP requirements were met. - Set in place "hot topics" sessions with management for their awareness of significant issues and activities that affected ISSP. - Formulated strategies and provided guidance to CCI team associated with the Contractors' milestones assessments and set in place touch points/processes resulting in effective integration of the two commercial crew providers. - Represented the ISSP at the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) boards, meetings and quarterlies where programmatic planning and risk informed decisions for the commercial crew vehicles approach to certifications were made, such as program evaluations and approval of alternate standards and variances. - Served as the ISS voting member to two separate but related Source Evaluation Boards (CCiCap and CCtCap) began with defining the agency acquisition strategy for using a non-traditional approach, followed by the development of the Request for Proposals (RFP), and participated in the proposals evaluation, then supported the agency contract awards. -
H-Ii Transfer Vehicle Launch Package Manager (Lpm)Nasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Jul 2000 - Dec 2012Houston, Texas AreaServed as the ISSP primary interface and liaison with JAXA for integrating then their newly developed visiting vehicle, H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), into the ISS. This was a complex endeavor involving operations, engineering and integration efforts to develop design and operational requirements definition for the new and mission-critical cargo vehicle.- Managed long-range program planning, facility requirements, manpower, and schedule associated with the integration of the HTV into the ISS.- Managed daily integration of geographically dispersed NASA and JAXA teams (100 direct reports and matrix members) to resolve technical issues and ensure teams meet critical milestones.- Interpreted and assisted in the implementation of the overall development plans and continued performance of the service to ISS. Continually monitored progress against the plan.- Assessed programmatic risks and managed resolution of critical overall project performance, including surveillance of safety, cost, risks, schedule and technical performance.- Provided authoritative project recommendation/decisions to ISS program officials, senior management, International Partner(s), and contractors on variables and uncertainties affecting programmatic and technical integration such as issues, problems, recommendations, and/or agreements as required to meet the overall ISS objectives.- Managed HTV design evaluations and joint verification activities to assure compliance to safety requirements and to ISSP mission success objectives. - Developed initial HTV Crew Monitoring requirements and capabilities to enable the first HTV (demonstration) flight to berth directly to the ISS - Led HTV cargo and payloads integration activities to assure proper requirements, definition of roles and responsibilities, and cargo-to-HTV compatibility assessments, etc. for pressurized and unpressurized cargo. -
Manager- International Partner Element And Visiting Vehicle Integration OfficeNasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Nov 2006 - Feb 2012Houston, Texas AreaI managed program resources for the overall development and integration of international partners elements and visiting vehicles into the International Space Station Program (ISSP). I served as an authoritative source of information for decisions and guidance concerning changes in program objectives, coordinated with other offices to establish content, cost, schedule of products, deliverables, and services and interacted with senior management to formulate agreements and plans for institutional support of program activities. -
Commercial Crew Program Liaison To The Faa And Issp International PartnersNasa Johnson Space Center Aug 1983 - Present
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Centrifuge Element Integration Manager (Eim)Nasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Dec 2002 - Feb 2005Houston, Texas Area- Served as the International Space Station (ISS) technical manager for integrating the Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM) into the ISS- Conducted daily integration with the NASA and JAXA technical teams (~100 direct reports and matrix members) to resolve technical issues, to close action items, and to plan near term/ long term activities - Provided early conflict management to facilitate and enable direct communication between NASA and JAXA- Established effective multi-lateral relationships among International Partners participating in the CAM Project to improve work flows and efficiencies across diverse national and organizational cultures- Conducted high-value (~$200M) barter negotiations among NASA, NASA HQ, and JAXA to assure the viability of the Centrifuge Project - Developed bi-lateral documentations to ensure proper requirements and interface definitions between the CAM and the ISS, the Centrifuge Rotor, payloads, and the Space Shuttle - Conducted and led quarterly Element Integration TIMs, design reviews (CAM System CDR), and joint verifications in support of CAM development milestones- Served as CAM EIM in parallel with current duty as the HTV LPM -
Aerospace EngineerNasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration Jan 1997 - Jul 2000Houston, Texas AreaLed the parafoil command and control system integration and testing on numerous X-38 flight tests. The parafoil command and control system consisted of flight computer and software, port and starboard winches, GPS system, laser altimeter, magnetometer compass, and RF ground station. Tasks included:- Pre-flight integration and check-out of the NGCS/ Winch system consisting firmware installation, winch and compass calibration, and system functional/ and performance verification. - Real time operation support on the lake-bed; monitoring system performance, reporting system status, resolving inflight anomalies. - Post flight processing and evaluations. - Post flight hardware inspection & refurbishment enabling rapid turn-around.- System reconfiguration and optimization based on flight test lessons learned.- Flight products development (procedures, flight rules, launch commit Training of Flight Test Engineers (FTE) for Day-of-Flight operations. Defined and implemented navigation hardware for the X-38 orbital flight vehicle. The flight vehicle navigation hardware included SIGI, Radar Altimeters, Laser Altimeters, star-trackers, and Magnetometers. Tasks included:- Requirements definition. - Hardware procurement – provided contractual and technical interface with the hardware providers. - Hands-on evaluations and testing of hardware/ firmware (QTP and ATP).- Hands-on vehicle integration including HW installation, precision alignment of the nav-base, component and system testing.- SIGI on-orbit testing via Space Shuttle Detailed Test Objectives (DTO).
Thomas Le Education Details
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Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering
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