Angela Surgenor

Angela Surgenor is the deputy director for the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program within ARMD at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In collaboration with the program director, Surgenor is responsible for the overall planning, management, and evaluation of ARMD’s efforts to cultivate revolutionary concepts, tools, and technologies that enable aviation transformation.

The Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program solicits and encourages ideas, creates the environment for researchers to experiment with those ideas, explores broadly critical technologies, develops new computational and experimental tools, performs ground and small-scale flight tests, allows failures and learning from them, and drives turnover into future concepts and first-of-a-kind capabilities.

Prior to becoming deputy director, Surgenor served as the associate director for the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program for ARMD. In this role, she was responsible for the technical integration, strategic planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of technologies and concepts.

Surgenor holds a Master of Engineering degree from Ohio University. She also holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cleveland State University and an Associate of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Cuyahoga Community College.