DATAWorks Sessions Archive

Dr. Mark J. Lewis is the Director of IDA’s Science and Technology Policy Institute, a federally funded research and development center. He leads an organization that provides analysis of national and international science and technology issues to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, as well as other Federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, Homeland Security, and the Federal Aviation Administration, among others.Prior to taking charge of STPI, Dr. Lewis served as the Willis Young, Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. A faculty member at Maryland for 24 years, Dr. Lewis taught and conducted basic and applied research. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Lewis was the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force. From 2010 to 2011, he was President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).Dr. Lewis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics, Bachelor of Science degree in earth and planetary science (1984), Master of Science (1985), and Doctor of Science (1988) in aeronautics and astronautics.Dr. Lewis is the author of more than 300 technical publications and has been an adviser to more than 70 graduate students. Dr. Lewis has also served on various advisory boards for NASA, the Air Force, and DoD, including two terms on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the NASA Advisory Council, and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academies.Dr. Lewis’s awards include the Meritorious Civilian Service Award and Exceptional Civilian Service Award; he was also recognized as the 1994 AIAA National Capital Young Scientist/Engineer of the Year, IECEC/ AIAA Lifetime Achievement Award, and is an Aviation Week and Space Technology Laureate (2007).

Over the past 45 years, Mike’s primary focus has been on the management of research and development, focusing on making the results more useful in meeting the needs of the user community. Since 1984, he has specialized in communications, data and processing systems, including projects in NASA, the US Air Force, the FAA and the Census Bureau. Before that, he worked on Major System Acquisition Programs, in the Department of Defense including Marine Corps combat vehicles and US Navy submarines. Currently, Mike manages a comprehensive program to provide NASA’s Earth Science research efforts with the information technologies it will need in the 2020-2035 time-frame to characterize, model and understand the Earth. This Program addresses the full range of data lifecycle from generating data using instruments and models, through the management of the data and including the ways in which information technology can help to exploit the data. Of particular interest today are the ways in which NASA can measure and understand transient and transitional phenomena and the impact of climate change. The AIST Program focuses the application of applied math and statistics, artificial intelligence, case-based reasoning, machine learning and automation to improve our ability to use observational data and model output in understanding Earth’s physical processes and natural phenomena. Training and odd skills: Application of cloud computing US Government Computer Security US Navy Nuclear Propulsion operations and maintenance on two submarines

Jill Marlowe is the NASA’s first Digital Transformation Officer, leading the Agency to conceive, architect, and accelerate enterprise digital solutions that transform NASA’s work, workforce and workplace to achieve bolder missions faster and more affordably than ever before. Her responsibilities include refinement and integration of NASA’s digital transformation strategy, plans and policies and coordination of implementation activities across the NASA enterprise in six strategic thrusts: data, collaboration, modeling, artificial intelligence/machine learning, process transformation, and culture and workforce.

Prior to this role, Ms. Marlowe was the Associate Center Director, Technical, at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.  Ms. Marlowe led strategy and transformation of the center’s technical capabilities to assure NASA’s future mission success. In this role, she focused on accelerating Langley’s internal and external collaborations as well as the infusion of digital technologies critical for the center to thrive as a modern federal laboratory in an ever more digitally-enabled, hyper-connected, fast-paced, and globally-competitive world.

In 2008, Ms. Marlowe was selected to the Senior Executive Service as the Deputy Director for Engineering at NASA Langley, and went on to serve as the center’s Engineering Director and Research Director. With the increasing responsibility and scope of these roles, Ms. Marlowe has a broad range of leadership experiences that include: running large organizations of 500 –  1,000 people to deliver solutions to every one of NASA’s mission directorates; sustaining and morphing a diverse portfolio of technical capabilities spanning aerosciences, structures & materials, intelligent flight systems, space flight instruments, and entry descent & landing systems; assuring safe operation of over two-million square feet of laboratories and major facilities; architecting partnerships with universities, industry and other government agencies to leverage and advance NASA’s goals; project management of technology development and flight test experiments; and throughout all of this, incentivizing innovation in very different organizational cultures spanning foundational research, technology invention, flight design and development engineering, and operations. She began her NASA career in 1990 as a structural analyst supporting the development of numerous space flight instruments to characterize Earth’s atmosphere.

Ms. Marlowe’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990, and a Degree of Engineer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Washington University in 1997.  She serves on advisory boards for Virginia Tech’s Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Department, Sandia National Laboratory’s Engineering Sciences Research Foundation, and Cox Communications’ Digitally Inclusive Communities (regional). She is the recipient of two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, was named the 2017 NASA Champion of Innovation, is an AIAA Associate Fellow, and was inducted in 2021 into the Virginia Tech Academy of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Excellence.  She lives in Yorktown, Virginia, with her husband, Kevin, along with the youngest of their three children and two energetic labradoodles.

Wendy Martinez has been serving as the Director of the Mathematical Statistics Research Center at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for six years. Prior to this, she served in several research positions throughout the Department of Defense. She held the position of Science and Technology Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research, where she established a research portfolio comprised of academia and industry performers developing data science products for the future Navy and Marine Corps. Her areas of interest include computational statistics, exploratory data analysis, and text data mining. She is the lead author of three books on MATLAB and statistics. Dr. Martinez was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2006 and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She was honored by the American Statistical Association when she received the ASA Founders Award at the JSM 2017 conference. Wendy is also proud and grateful to have been elected as the 2020 ASA President.

Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots. She is currently a Professor in the Duke University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory. She is an AIAA Fellow and a member of the Veoneer, Inc. Board of Directors

Wendy Masiello is an independent consultant having retired from the United States Air Force as a Lieutenant General.  She is president of Wendy Mas Consulting, LLC and serves as an independent director for KBR Inc., EURPAC Service, Inc., and StandardAero (owned by The Carlyle Group).  She is also a Director on the Procurement Round Table and the National ReBuilding Together Board, President-elect for the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) Board, Chair of Rawls Advisory Council for Texas Tech University’s College of Business and serves on the Air Force Studies Board under the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Prior to her July 2017 retirement, she was Director of the Defense Contract Management Agency where she oversaw a $1.4 billion budget and 12,000 people worldwide in oversight of 20,000 contractors performing 340,000 contracts with more than $2 trillion in contract value. During her 36-year career, General Masiello also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Contracting), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and as Program Executive Officer for the Air Forces $65 billion Service Acquisition portfolio.  She also commanded the 96^th Air Base Wing at Edwards Air Force Base and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting for Forces.

General Masiello’s medals and commendations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal and the Bronze Star.  She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Tech University, a Master of Science degree in logistics management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Managers in Government.

General Masiello is a 2017 Distinguished Alum of Texas Tech University, was twice (2015 and 2016) named among Executive Mosaic’s Wash 100, the 2014 Greater Washington Government Contractor “Public Sector Partner of the Year,” and recognized by Federal Computer Week as one of “The 2011 Federal 100”.  She is an NCMA Certified Professional Contract Manager and an NCMA Fellow.