The Space Flight Awareness (SFA) program recently recognized Barrios Technologys MAPI employee Dana Tobeck with the prestigious SFA Honoree Award for her dedication and commitment to the ISS Program.

Tobeck, a Principal Project Controls Specialist, was recognized for her leadership in establishing work plan and management systems. Tasked with organizing how MAPI tracks over 40,000 contract-delivered products and service units for each Statement of Work (SOW) element, Tobeck developed a measurement system along with training for MAPI management that ensures quality Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and provided management insight into work variances. She personally working with each supervisor to ensure her approach was consistently applied across the organization. For FY2015, Tobeck utilized lessons learned to improve tracking, partnering, and review processes. She reduced the size for the FY2015 AWP by 45%, and initiated earlier interactions with the NASA customer. The improved process allowed the AWP product to be provided to the NASA customer one month early and eliminating approximately three months of coordination effort between 45 NASA points of contact and 27 MAPI personnel.

Tobeck has worked in the space industry for over 15 years on various NASA programs. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Houston as well as a graduate degree from Texas A&M University.

The SFA Honoree Award is one of the highest presented to NASA and industry. To qualify, the individuals must have contributed beyond their normal work requirements to achieve significant impact on attaining a particular human space flight program goal; contributed to a major cost savings; been instrumental in developing modification to hardware, software, or materials that increase reliability, efficiency, or performance; assisted in operational improvements; or been a key player in developing a beneficial process improvement.

The SFA Program is a NASA managed motivational program geared at ensuring that every employee involved in human space flight is aware of the importance of their role in promoting astronaut safety and mission success in the critical, challenging task of flying humans in space by communicating and educating the government and industry workforce about human space flight.

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Barrios Technology employee receives SFA Award