Jill M. Marlowe, 2025

Degree of Engineer, Civil & Env. Eng., George Washington University, 1997
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990 
B.S., Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1988

Jill Marlowe is a nationally recognized leader in digital transformation, enterprise strategy, and organizational innovation with nearly two decades of senior executive experience in multiple roles at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She is widely regarded for guiding large, complex organizations through technological disruption, forging high-impact partnerships, and transforming team culture to deliver high-impact results across engineering, research, technology, and business organizations.

Since retiring from NASA in December 2024, Ms. Marlowe has dedicated herself to serving the aerospace community through multiple boards and advisory leadership roles. Ms. Marlowe was recently elected to the Board of Trustees for the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), where she has initially advised on digital strategies shaping the future of the global aerospace profession. She also chairs the Engineering Sciences Research Foundation External Review Board for Sandia National Laboratories, providing congressionally mandated independent oversight of one of the nation’s premier early stage research portfolios. Ms. Marlowe proudly serves on advisory boards at her alma mater, Virginia Tech, for both the Aerospace & Ocean Engineering (AOE) Department and Center for Research and Engineering in Aero/Hydrodynamics (CREATe), and recently led the AOE Board Strategic Planning Committee to develop and release a future-facing 2025–2030 department strategic plan.

Ms. Marlowe brings 35 years of federal service to these board roles, where her executive acumen was routinely sought out to develop strategies and lead high performing teams to deliver next generation solutions to complex mission and organizational challenges. As NASA’s inaugural Digital Transformation Officer from 2020-2024, she defined and executed the agency’s first digital transformation vision and strategy, built internal and external partnerships, and created and managed an investment portfolio of advanced digital solutions needed to modernize NASA’s work, workforce, and workplace. Her successes included demonstrating the first artificial intelligence model on space station to inspect space suits to ensure safe astronaut EVA, and establishing a comprehensive enterprise digital engineering architecture and roadmap now championed by the Agency Chief Engineer. From 2018-2020, she served as Associate Center Director, Technical at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where she directed the transformation and modernization of the Center’s research and engineering capabilities. From 2009-2018, she served as Engineering Deputy Director and then Research Director, leading teams of 500–1,000 professionals with diverse technical portfolios spanning aerosciences, intelligent flight systems, advanced structures and materials, and measurement technologies. She oversaw safe operations of multi-million-square-foot laboratories and facilities, managed large-scale budgets and programs, and negotiated numerous external partnerships to deliver countless research and technology innovations across NASA’s science, aeronautics, and space exploration missions. She was selected to the Senior Executive Service in 2008 after progressing through numerous technical leadership roles, having spent her early career as a structural analyst designing space-based remote sensing instruments to better understand climate change and external structures for Seawolf and Los Angeles class submarines.

Ms. Marlowe’s recognition includes election to AIAA Fellow, the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, election to the Virginia Tech Academy of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Excellence, and being voted NASA’s Champion of Innovation (2017). She has served on the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem Subcommittee, the Partnership for Public Service Federal Innovation Council, the Old Dominion University College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium Advisory Board. She holds degrees in aerospace and ocean, mechanical, and civil and environmental engineering from Virginia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and George Washington University.