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Image left: Jeffrey Sutton is the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Infrastructure and Administration at NASA Headquarters. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Jeffrey Sutton serves as the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Infrastructure and Administration at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Sutton served as the Assistant Administrator for Management Systems, providing agencywide executive leadership for the functions of facilities engineering, environmental management, logistics and aircraft management, contractor industrial relations, and management controls and assessment. In this new assignment, Mr. Sutton continues to lead these agencywide functions, but he also leads the Agencywide Ombuds Program, and the Headquarters Operations support functions including equal opportunity and diversity, information technology, facilities and administration services, career management, human resources management, and business management.

Mr. Sutton has more than 30 years of Federal service, during which he has progressed through a series of increasingly responsible and varied positions with the U.S. Air Force and NASA. He was chosen Associate Administrator in June 1998. Before that, among other key assignments at NASA, he served as Director, Supply and Equipment Management Division; Director, Logistics and Security Division; and Director, Security, Logistics, Aircraft, and Industrial Relations Division.

Mr. Sutton has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Minnesota and a master of public administration degree (with honors) from the University of Southern California. The more recent of many awards from the Air Force, NASA and other agencies include the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the President’s Council on Management Improvement Award of Management Excellence, and the General Services Administration Excellence in Administration Award.