Robert C. Goetz obtained an MS in engineering mechanics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his BS in aeronautical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently the vice president of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. He has served as the director of engineering, Lockheed Advanced Development Company, as acting director of Engineering and Advanced Programs, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, and as deputy director of engineering, managing engineering support for Advanced Development Projects. He has been with NASA for 29 years in a variety of positions, the last of which was as deputy center director at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. He has served as an officer in the US Air Force. Under the NASA Executive Development Program, he was assigned to the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and also the American Astronautical Society.