Metrology and Calibration

Kenny Mathews

Metrology and Calibration Program Manager

Kenny Mathews is the NASA Metrology and Calibration program manager, responsible for developing policy and requirements, issuing guidance documents, and deploying tools and resources for effective implementation of metrology and calibration across the agency. He also leads the agency Metrology and Calibration Working Group.

Mathews joined the agency in January of 1990 and now has more than 25 years of NASA experience. Prior to his current role, he spent three years in the Launch Services Program as a Quality manager leading the Quality group in providing insight into the manufacturing of Expendable Launch Vehicles and the Quality Management Systems of the Launch Services contractors (United Launch Alliance, Orbital Sciences Corporation and SpaceX). Mathews also spent two years developing ground system requirements for the Constellation Program as the project integrator of the Spacecraft Processing Element and Spacecraft Recovery and Retrieval Element. He then spent nine years in Space Station Payloads in the NASA Mechanical Engineering Branch, working various payloads such as the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Node 2 and the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, and supporting research projects for the middeck experiments and EXPRESS Research Racks. He started his NASA career in Space Shuttle Logistics as a logistics engineer working with suppliers on procurement and repair of shuttle hardware and the transition of hardware from suppliers to the NASA Shuttle Logistics Depot and White Sands Test Facility.

Mathews has a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Central Florida.

Brian Hughitt

Metrology and Calibration Program Executive

Brian Hughitt is the Quality program executive, responsible for NASA’s Quality program policy and requirements, chairing NASA’s Quality Leadership Forum and Joint Audit Planning Committee, and managing the agency’s Supplier Assessment System.

Prior to joining NASA in January 2004, Hughitt served more than 20 years in various government and industry Quality Assurance capacities, including Inspection Department supervisor for Corning Glass Works, Quality Assurance group leader for Newport News Shipbuilding, Quality Assurance and Submarine Safety Branch head for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), and material control manager for NAVSEA’s Quality Programs Office.

Hughitt has a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of George Washington University’s Executive Development Program. 

Every NASA center has a Metrology and Calibration Point of Contact (PoC). For more information, contact the PoC at your center.