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Mr. Thomas B. Irvine
Director of the Mission Support Office
Image left: Mr. Thomas B. Irvine, Director of the Mission Support Office. Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Tom Irvine is Director of the Mission Support Office in the Aeronautics
Research Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. The Mission Support
Office provides management and administrative support to the Mission
Directorate Operations and the Research Programs in areas such as human
resources and capital, education and outreach, procurements, and audit
liaison activities.
Irvine also serves as the Deputy Director of the Aeronautics Research
Mission Directorate’s Aeronautics Test Program (ATP). The ATP is responsible
for strategic and business management of NASA Aeronautics large ground testing
capabilities, including wind tunnels and engine test cells.
He came to NASA Headquarters in 2004 to head the Aeronautics Research Mission
Support Division, where he was responsible for ensuring the availability of
mission support-related capabilities (staffing, institution/infrastructure,
information technology) in order to meet present/future program requirements.
Previously, from 1999 to 2004, he was the Chief of the Facility Management
and Planning Office at the NASA Glenn Research Center, where he was responsible
for strategic planning, improvements and upgrades, and test project scheduling
and planning of all of the Center’s major ground test facilities.
He joined the staff of the then NASA Lewis Research Center in 1982, where he
has held management, program management and research engineering positions in
the Engineering and Technical Services Directorate, in the Space Station Program
Office, and in the Aeronautics Directorate. He started his NASA career doing jet
engine structural analysis and design.
Irvine has written technical papers on diverse topics such as wind tunnel history,
aircraft icing, space electrical power systems, and composite material mechanics.
He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering in 1980 and a Master of
Science Degree in Engineering Mechanics in 1982, both from The Ohio State University.
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