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LEE NAMED NASA LANGLEY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Cynthia C. Lee |
NASA Langley Research Center Director Roy D. Bridges Jr. today
named Cynthia C. "Cindy" Lee Associate Director for Program
Integration. In this capacity, she has oversight and responsibility
for all program management functions at the Center. Lee will work
closely with the Center Director and senior management team in the
overall planning, strategy, operations and management of the
Center.
"Cindy's success as a team builder and leader across a wide
variety of programs and organizations within NASA and the
Department of Defense makes her uniquely qualified to lead the
development and integration of NASA programs at Langley in the
second century of flight," said Bridges.
Lee replaces Ruth Martin who is leaving the Agency effective
December 8 to serve as Director of Programs for the National
Federation of the Blind and its planned Research and Technology
Institute. The federation is a Baltimore-based organization with
50,000 members nationwide. She starts the new job January 19.
Lee was formerly the Deputy Director of the Aerospace Systems
Concepts and Analysis Competency (ASCAC). ASCAC provides
aeronautics and space systems analyses that better enable Agency
leaders to make integrated investment decisions, individual program
technology benefits and trades assessments, and revolutionary
aerospace systems concepts for the future. The organization of 125
civil servants and 80 contractors and graduate students assesses
all areas of interest to NASA, including atmospheric flight,
low-Earth orbit, geo-stationary Earth orbit and space
exploration.
"I've had the opportunity to work in both research and
technology and programs," Lee said, "and I am looking forward to
strengthening our collaboration across the Center and the Agency to
better serve NASA and the nation."
From 1994 to 1996 and 1998 to 1999, she served as Deputy
Director of the Advanced Subsonic Technology (AST) Program and
Acting Director for the closing year. AST was the Agency's focused
subsonic technology program with a scope of $1.5B and 11 technology
projects that emphasized improvements in the environment, airspace
capacity, and safety of the airframe, propulsion, and air
transportation systems. The program spanned Langley, Ames, and
Glenn Research Centers, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Goddard
Space Flight Center. Prior to AST, she led the Agency's Base
R&T Civil Transportation Program to develop revolutionary
technology for civil airframe systems.
As Head of the Flight Research Branch from 1991 to 1994, she led
research programs in aerodynamics, flight dynamics, and aviation
safety for flight evaluations of advanced systems concepts that
enhanced the efficiency and safety of military and commercial
aircraft. She is recognized as an international expert in flight
research test techniques. Early in her career, she worked at
Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center for DoD as a project engineer
for the initial flight tests of the AV-8B Harrier.
Lee has also served in developmental assignments at NASA's
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas; NASA Headquarters Office of
Space Flight, Washington, D.C.; and Boeing Space and
Communications, Seal Beach, Calif.
Lee earned a bachelor of science degree in Aerospace and Ocean
Engineering from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in Flight
Sciences and Public Administration from George Washington and
Syracuse Universities, respectively. She received NASA's
Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1999 and the Exceptional Service
Medal in 1997.
Lee was born in Hampton, Va., and lives in Williamsburg with her
husband, Wayne, and two golden retrievers. They have one adult
daughter, Melissa.
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