Bruce Pittman

Bruce Pittman is the Director, Flight Project for the Space Portal at the Ames Research Center where he supports both suborbital human-tended science and lunar commercialization. He has been involved in high technology product development, project management and system engineering for over 30 years

Bruce he has also been a founder and member of the startup team in a number of early growth companies including SpaceHab, Kistler Aerospace, New Focus, Product Factory, Prometheus II Ltd., Industrial Sound and Motion and most recently, TransGeneos Inc.

Bruce has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from U. C. Davis and a MS in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Concurrent Product Development. Bruce is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and founder and first chairman of the System Engineering Technical Committee. Bruce is also a member of the organizing committee for the Space Investment Summit series and a member of the Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG). He has authored over 2 dozen papers on a technical and management topics in aerospace and high technology. In addition to his technical work Bruce is also a member of the adjunct faculty in the Graduate Engineering School at Santa Clara University.