Elaine Slaugh 

Elaine Slaugh serves as the Acting Director of the Mission Support Resources Management Office within Mission Support Directorate where she provides leadership and direction on planning, programming, budgeting and execution matters for the Safety, Security, and Mission Services (SSMS) and the Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restoration (CECR) budgets. She also supports the reduction of institutional risks by improving business processes, increasing efficiency, and providing consistency and uniformity across institutional capabilities and services.   

Slaugh brings a wealth of expertise to MSD, having served as the director of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) Resources Management Office (RMO), following a successful tenure as the office’s deputy director.  

As the RMO director for SOMD, Slaugh was responsible for leading the formulation and implementation of budget planning and funding execution; strategy, business, and financial management support for space operations programs; and achieving corporate excellence in business and resources management within the directorate. Under her leadership, the team developed program resources guidance, supported the development of the space operations budget submission and presentation to the NASA Administrator, assisted in the development of the Office of Management and Budget’s budget submission and presentation to budget examiners, and helped develop the directorate’s congressional justification and presentation of the President’s Budget for House and Senate appropriations staffs. Slaugh ensured compliance with applicable appropriations law and provided the Space Operations Associate Administrator with recommendations on optimizing the directorate’s portfolio. 

Slaugh began her NASA career in 1990 as an auditor for the NASA Office of Inspector General, where she managed the agency’s overall financial statement audit and initiated the transition of the audit from an in-house effort to contracts with both Certified Public Accounting firms and the Defense Contract Audit Agency. From 2000 to 2005, she served as chief of the Property Accounting Office within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, where she was responsible for all aspects of financial management of the agency’s multi-billion-dollar property, plant, and equipment and development of the agency’s Integrated Asset Management System. 

From 2005 to 2010, she served as associate branch chief, of the Business Management Office for Goddard’s Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate, responsible for budgetary and financial management of instrument development on major NASA Science Mission Directorate missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope and the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. In 2010, she was selected as deputy director, of the Resource Management Office for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, where she was responsible for assisting and advising the director on all budget formulation and execution of products, systems management, and program analysis consistent with administration policies and guidance, agency strategic plans, and congressional authorization and appropriations. 

A native Washingtonian, Slaugh earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from American University. She is the recipient of several awards, including the NASA Exceptional Performance Award, the President’s Council on Integrity, and Efficiency Individual Achievement Award, and the DC Institute of Public Accountants’ Silver Award for the second highest score on the Certified Public Accountant exam.