Scott Kugler

About Scott Kugler

Director Advanced Space Technology & Products (ASP) business area for Space Systems at Northrop Grumman. Prior to ASP, I was the Director and Program Manager for our Eagle-3 Spacecraft bus platform, after winning and executing on the GBSD (now Sentinel) TMRR program (and EMD capture) for Flight Systems (the \"missile\" team of ~150 engineers and ~$50M/year budget for large scale aerospace capture effort of GBSD EMD & LRIP phases).Prior to this was Engineering Lead in Customer Relations Business Development for a year after serving as an IPT lead for several years as well as a Principal Investigator for multiple technology platforms to develop advanced concepts and materials, develop test plans and qualification guidance and management.Sr. Thermal & Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman Space Technology (formerly TRW) leading a group of thermal engineers in design, test preparation and excution, and system development for a complex space application.Specialties: Technical team leadershipCompetitive proposals and capturesSchedule and Earned Value managementResearch and development qualification knowledge

Experience

1. Director, Advanced Space Products Business Area

   Northrop Grumman

   Apr 2024 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Director of Advanced Space Products (ASP) at Space Park in Redondo Beach, CA for our Strategic Space Systems Division. Our space products and technology advancement operating unit team is responsible for developing and advancing our payload and vehicle bus products and technologies that support our various programs across the division as well as leverage opportunities across the other space sector divisions.

Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1990 — 1994

• UCLA

  Masters, Mechanical Engineering

  1994 — 1996

• UCLA

  Master of Science - MS, Heat & Mass Transfer; Two-phase Flow phenomenon

Skills

• Mechanical Engineering
• Earned Value Management
• Engineering Management
• Trade Studies
• Sensors
• Project Management
• Testing
• Program Management
• Thermal Management
• Simulations
• Systems Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Space Systems
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Finite Element Analysis
• Management
• Spacecraft
• Matlab