Vera L. Scheidlinger is a project leader in Enterprise and Technology Assessments within The Aerospace Corporation’s Civil Systems Group. She leads independent and cross-cutting programmatic assessments in support of civil and commercial customers, including NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academies of Science. She also supports strategic efforts to modify and apply Aerospace’s existing programmatic assessment expertise to a non-space portfolio. Prior to joining Aerospace, Scheidlinger was a civilian program manager leading a wide range of U.S. Air Force aerospace acquisition, testing, and integration efforts.