Anna Irvine

Anna Irvine is the Acting Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at NASA’s Langley Research Center, in Hampton, VA, where she manages the financial accounting and budget formulation and execution for the $900M+ Center portfolio. Irvine was appointed to the Senior Executive Service (SES) in December 2024, when she assumed the responsibilities of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). In this position, Irvine ensured the financial health of GSFC, delivering financial business management, internal controls, cost accounting, resource management, budget formulation and execution, project planning and controls, and strategic integration and analysis in support of a $4B+ Center budget.

Irvine also serves the NASA Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) Enterprise as the Data Analytics Functional Champion spearheading the integration of advanced financial data analytics across NASA, delivering timely, actionable insights to enhance decision-making and ensure financial integrity. Critical initiatives include the design and implementation of a secure and scalable data architecture with curated data environments to accelerate tool development by an estimated 50% to 90% and the development of standard operating procedures to optimize tool development and ensure consistency, reliability, and operational excellence across analytical products.

Irvine began her NASA career in 2022 as the head of NASA Langley’s program planning and control capability office, later becoming Director, Program Analysis Office, and Deputy Chief Financial Officer. She joined NASA from the Government Accountability Office where she was a senior operations research analyst, providing oversight and assessment of acquisition program controls to ensure Federal Agencies adhered to best practices. Anna is a trained aerospace engineer and worked in private industry supporting programs across the U.S. Army, Missile Defense Agency, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Irvine earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science in Mathematics, both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.