HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Joan A. "Jody" Singer, a native of Hartselle, AL., and a veteran of the NASA space program, has been named manager of the Flight Programs and Partnerships Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. In that position, which was announced Wednesday June 26, she will oversee work at Marshall in human exploration, flight missions and International Space Station hardware and operations.

The office Singer will head has an annual budget of $108 million this year and a workforce of 500 civil servants and contractors. It also has the job of creating and maintaining partnerships between Marshall and other government agencies as well as commercial companies.

Singer comes to the job from the post of deputy program manager for the Space Launch System Office at Marshall. In that office from 2011 until 2013, she helped direct a workforce of nearly 3,000 government and contractor employees developing America's next big deep-space rocket. Earlier, she was deputy manager of Marshall's Space Shuttle Propulsion Office. She is a member of the government's Senior Executive Service, a personnel category of the government's top managers.

Singer earned her bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1983 and has completed numerous additional training courses and university fellowships. She is married to Christopher Singer, director of Marshall's Engineering Directorate. The Singers have three children and live in Huntsville.

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Jody Singer named manager of Flight Programs and Partnerships Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center