Future Insight Seminar: How does NASA really work? - Nov. 16
Casey Swails
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Business Operations
Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 4:00 P.M. | Zoom Webinar
Please join Mark Sirangelo as he welcomes Casey Swails, NASA’s deputy associate administrator for Business Operations for a talk on how NASA really works day to day.
Casey leads and integrates mission support functions across the agency, builds and advances the agency’s industry partnerships, and is a principal advisor on overall day-to-day operations and NASA’s long-term strategic direction.
Previously, Swails served as the chief of staff and senior advisor to the associate administrator, as well as the agency’s acting deputy chief of staff during the presidential transition. In those positions, she ensured the effective flow of operations across NASA’s workforce and represented the agency in the alignment of policy, strategy, priorities and program development.
She has also led many of the agency’s significant change management initiatives. This included leadership of the largest human capital transformation effort in NASA’s history, resulting in the successful merger of 10 separate human resources offices into one enterprise organization and the realignment of more than 500 human capital employees and corresponding $90 million budget.
Also noteworthy was her leadership in the design and creation of the agencywide Executive Services Division, which manages programs for attracting, retaining, and developing NASA’s executive cadre of more than 600 senior leaders. With over 17 years at NASA, Swails has had substantial involvement working across multiple NASA centers and with many of the agency’s human spaceflight programs, including the early Commercial Crew and Gateway programs, which are recognized as leading models for the agency today.
Swails holds a BS in management from Georgia Tech and a master’s in business administration from Duke University. Her work has garnered several awards, including the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, Silver Achievement Medal, Silver Snoopy Award, and the Johnson Space Center Director’s Innovation Award.
Mark N. Sirangelo created and hosts the CU Future Insight Seminar Series as CU’s Entrepreneur-Scholar in Residence. He is the recent Chairman of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Board and the DoD’s Space Advisory Committee.Ìý Previously he was Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator helping to develop NASA’s return to the Moon.Ìý Mark was the founding executive and head of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems and has served as the Chief Innovation Officer of Colorado.