| Barbara Pfarr is currently an Associate Chief of the Information Systems Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center, and a member of Goddard’s Exploration Task Group. Previously, she was head the Earth Sciences Missions Branch, which provides end-to-end systems engineering for NASA programs, missions and projects and of the Real-Time Software Engineering Branch, which develops Command and Control systems and simulators for integration and test and on-orbit operations of Earth and space science missions. She received Goddard’s Outstanding Management Award in 1999 and again in 2003. She received NASA’s Spaceflight Awareness Award and Goddard’s Exceptional Achievement Award for support to the Hubble Space Telescope Project. She received a B.A. in mathematics and astronomy from Smith College in 1981, a M.S in Computer Science (concentration: Artificial Intelligence) from Johns Hopkins in 1991, and a M.S. in Computer Science (concentration: Graphics) from George Washington University in 1998. She is a member of INCOSE, the Society of Women Engineers, and Sigma Xi Research Society. |
