Fred Elliott

Contact: frederick.w.elliott@nasa.gov

Fred Elliott comes to the Game Changing Development Program Office from NASA’s Glenn Research Center where he has worked since June 1998. Fred has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Akron. He began his NASA career in 1985 at NASA’s Ames Research Center as a cooperative student engineering trainee working in the Vertical Motion Simulator facility, and later as a test engineer in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex. In 1991, Fred joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he worked as a systems engineer developing requirements for various launch vehicle, observatory, ISS payloads, and free-flyer in-space demonstration projects.

At Glenn, Fred has supported or managed numerous spaceflight and technology development projects, including development of ion and hall thrusters and the upgrade of the test facilities at Plum Brook Station’s Space Environments Complex to support testing of NASA’s Orion as well as other spaceflight vehicles and payloads. Since 2015, Fred has been managing various projects for the Game Changing Development Program, including the Extreme Environment Solar Power Project, Regenerative Fuel Cell projects, other related solar array and fuel cell technology projects. He recently initiated Micro-grid Definition and Interface Converter for Planetary Surfaces project. These projects seek to improve power technology capabilities in support of NASA’s robotic and human exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond. Fred has also recently managed a number of projects, mostly propulsion systems, for the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program.