Nancy Lindsey
Deputy Reliability and Maintainability Technical Fellow
Nancy J. Lindsey is the deputy Reliability and Maintainability technical fellow at NASA Headquarters and continues to be a Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Subject Matter Expert at Goddard Space Flight Center.
She has spent more than 35 years in aviation and aerospace engineering performing a variety of engineering tasks across the entire gamut of space vehicle life cycles and program types including including defense and commercial communications missions, space-based astronomical observatories, ground systems, and Earth science monitoring systems. She spent about 20 years in systems engineering and more than 15 years in Safety and Mission Assurance (Reliability, Safety and Quality).
Her roles and responsibilities have varied over the years, but with her expertise, she has supported U.S Navy out-of-controlled flight training human factors development initiatives, space servicing missions, telecommunication satellite production and operations, ground system management/development, space system manufacturing, Range Safety and job assurance, Quality Assurance, Reliability and risk analysis, and remote sensing/telescopic space systems developments.
She is also a recognized innovator and expert in space systems and Reliability at Goddard, based on her mission analysis contributions and architecting the development of tools and processes for Goddard using agile program management. The Goddard tools include the NASA Goddard Mission Configuration Tool, Failure Integration and Analysis Tool (FIAT), and the Code 300 Career Path. The Mission Configuration tool allows Goddard personnel to access a perpetual archive of Mission Configuration data (including drawings, parts lists, block diagrams, change orders and closeout photos) to give hardware/software context to experience data. FIAT allows the Goddard Reliability engineering to use experience data to develop more accurate reliability predictions using Bayesian analysis, while the Goddard/Code 300 career path facilitates career planning sharing of information on opportunities across Goddard disciplines.
Lindsey has a Bachelor of Science in computer science and aeronautical engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She also was trained in flight medicine by the U.S. Navy, and has a master degree’s in space studies from the University of North Dakota.
She believes in outreach and mentoring the next generation of engineers.