[SatNews] Rhega Gordon has been appointed deputy of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Named to the position in June 2013, Gordon assists the chief financial officer in overseeing implementation and administration of all integrated Marshall Center and NASA financial management systems, including all aspects of planning, programming, budget processes and guidelines for distribution of financial resources.

From 2011 to 2013, Gordon was manager of the Planning and Control Office in the Marshall Center's Flight Programs and Partnerships Office, planning and executing fiscal resources in support of the organization's role in human exploration projects and tasks; flight mission programs and projects; International Space Station hardware integration and operations; and external partnerships.

Gordon was manager of the Science and Mission Systems Program Planning and Control Office from 2010 to 2011. She planned and executed fiscal resources in support of the development of proposals for science research, primary mirror segment assembly tests at Marshall for the James Webb Space Telescope—the NASA deep-space imager set to launch in 2018—and delivery of key components for next-generation environmental control and life-support systems, now in development for future human missions in space.

She managed the Instrument & Payload Systems Department Resources Group, part of Marshall's Engineering Directorate, from 2006 to 2010. She led the design and development of mechanical and electrical flight hardware and software for a variety of NASA space systems, and also guided the fabrication, assembly and integrated testing of flight hardware.

From 2005 to 2006, Gordon was manager of the Engineering Directorate's Payload and Technology Business Office and Space Systems Payloads and Project Offices. She was a team lead in Marshall's Flight Projects Directorate from 2004 to 2005. There she supported, among other missions, oversight of payload and science operations on the International Space Station and the continued imaging research on orbit of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory -- the world's most powerful X-ray telescope, launched in 1999 to study the behavior of stars, black holes and other phenomena across the cosmos.