Hevey’s previous duties at KSC included serving as the acting deputy director of Spaceport Services and the project manager of the Checkout and Launch Control Systems project.

Hevey joined NASA in 2000 after completing a 25-year career in the United States Air Force, retiring as a colonel. In his Air Force career, Hevey served in operational assignments as a KC-135 combat crew commander and instructor pilot, a Pentagon staff officer, and in multiple assignments within the Air Force systems development and acquisition field. Hevey’s final Air Force assignment was as the program director for the Combat Air Forces Command and Control Systems Program Office where he was a responsible for the development, procurement, and sustainment of 12 Air Force and foreign military command and control and mission planning programs.

Hevey graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Sciences from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975, received Master’s degrees in Engineering Management from Western New England College in 1985, and in National Resource Strategy from National Defense University in 1995. Hevey is also a 1990 graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.

He and his wife Dedra have two children and reside in Merritt Island, Fla.

May 2006