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Mr. Thomas B. Irvine
Deputy Associate Administrator
Director of the Integrated Systems Research Program (Acting)
Image left: Mr. Thomas B. Irvine, Deputy Associate Administrator and Director of the Integrated Systems Research Program (Acting). Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Irvine is the deputy associate administrator for the Aeronautics
Research Mission Directorate and the acting director for the Integrated
Systems Research Program at NASA Headquarters, which conducts
integrated-systems research on promising aeronautical concepts and
technologies, exploring, assessing and demonstrating their benefits in a
relevant environment.
His responsibilities include supporting the associate administrator in
the direction and oversight of NASA's aeronautics research program. He
engages the aeronautics community including industry, academia and other
U.S. government agencies on developing and maintaining research
relationships of benefit to the nation's aeronautics enterprise.
Previously Irvine was director of the Mission Support Office, which
provides management and administrative support to the mission
directorate operations and research programs.
Irvine 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 in order to
meet present/future program requirements.
From 1999 to 2004, he was the chief of the Facility Management and
Planning Office at NASA's 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.
In 1982 Irvine joined the staff of the then NASA Lewis Research Center,
where he 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
began his NASA career working on jet engine structural analysis and
design.
He has received several commendations for group achievements, as well as
NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for sustained contributions to NASA
aeronautics and spaceflight missions. He is an associate fellow of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Irvine has written technical papers on diverse topics such as wind
tunnel history, aircraft icing, space electrical power systems and
composite material mechanics. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in
civil engineering in 1980 and a Master of Science degree in engineering
mechanics in 1982, both from Ohio State University.
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