Mr. Dominic DePasquale, Director, Washington D.C. Operations

Email: dominic.depasquale@sei.aero
Phone: 1+202.503.1753
Fax: 1+202.503.1751

Mr. Dominic DePasquale currently serves as the Director of Washington D.C. Operations for SpaceWorks Commercial, a division of SEI focused on emerging commercial space industries. In that role, he supports several SpaceWorks Commercial projects and initiatives to develop and promote commercial space ventures. He serves as the deputy directory of the FastForward Study Group, an industry/government/academe working group focused on pre-competitive assessment of future high-speed point-to-point (PTP) flight. He is also the firm’s primary liaison to Astrobotic Technologies as they attempt to create commercial services on the moon (and also to win the Google Lunar X-Prize).

Mr. DePasquale’s past experience demonstrates significant leadership in economic analysis, business modeling, conceptual design, operations analysis, optimization, risk, and reliability of space systems architectures and concepts. He recently led integrated affordability analysis of the Lunar Surface Systems Project and greater Constellation Program as Integration Lead of NASA’s Strategic Analysis Cost Team, contributed to cost assessment for the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans (Augustine) Committee, and led program metrics assessment of multiple reusable Two-Stage-To-Orbit concepts for the NASA / Air Force Joint Systems Study. Other applications he has examined include space tourism/adventures, commercial space transportation concepts, and various other commercial markets. In addition, Mr. DePasquale has led or significantly contributed to the development of several engineering analysis tools and integrated environments. He developed an agent-based simulation tool for examination of dynamic space markets, and conceived and prototyped SEI's commercially available TraGE-X and Remix software tools.

Mr. DePasquale also has two years of experience working for Futron Corporation, where he contributed to Probabilistic Risk Assessment of the International Space Station (ISS), and served as Junior Systems Safety Engineer for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory New Horizons spacecraft.

Mr. DePasquale holds both an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed his undergraduate study at the University of Maryland, College Park where he received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is privileged to have worked with several highly functional teams, and received the NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award in 2002 and the NASA Cost Estimating Team of the Year Award in 2008.