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Dr. Amy Pritchett
Director of the Aviation Safety Program Office
Image left: Dr. Amy Pritchett, Director of the Aviation Safety Program Office. Image credit: NASA/Paul Alers
As the director of the Aviation Safety Program, Dr. Pritchett is
responsible for the overall planning, management and evaluation of the
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's efforts to conduct
high-quality, cutting-edge research that produces innovative concepts,
methods and technologies to improve the intrinsic safety attributes of
current and future aircraft, and to overcome aviation safety challenges
that would otherwise constrain the full realization of the Next
Generation Air Transportation System. In addition, Pritchett supports a
broad range of mission directorate activities, including strategic and
program planning, budget development, program review and evaluation, and
external coordination.
Before coming to NASA on an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement (IPA),
Pritchett was the Davis S. Lewis Associate Professor in the School of
Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint
appointment in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She was
the founder and director of the Georgia Tech Cognitive Engineering
Center where she conducted and administered an interdisciplinary
research and education program spanning several domains in aerospace
including cognitive engineering, piloted control, flight mechanics,
guidance, navigation, automatic control and aerospace design methods.
Her research foci include: an application of knowledge of human
cognition and performance in the design of aerospace systems to improve
the human contribution to aviation safety and to human-machine system
performance; innovative, intelligent flight deck systems with particular
focus on safety systems such as collision avoidance and intelligent
vehicle system monitoring; air traffic operations with particular focus
to ensuring human performance is supported for large-scale system
robustness; and novel methods of simulating large-scale systems, such as
air traffic control systems, to examine system performance and safety in
nominal and off-nominal conditions.
Pritchett is the author of over 170 technical publications and
presentations and established seven new courses in cognitive
engineering, air traffic control and aerospace simulation methods. She
is the recipient of awards including the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award for
Top Young Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech Excellence Faculty Award,
the RTCA William E. Jackson Award, Top Young Alumni of MIT's Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Wings Club of America Merit Award.
She has served on the Human Factors Sub-Committee of the FAA Research,
Engineering and Development Advisory Committee, and on committees and
boards such as the AIAA Digital Avionics Technical Committee, National
Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, and the
Independent Assessment Team of the Joint Planning and Development Office
(JPDO).
Pritchett received bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in
aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1992, 1994 and 1997, respectively.
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