Segrid Harris serves as the Director of Engineering & Technology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Prior to this, Segrid served as the Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munition Directorate. As SSTM, she led strategic R&D programs in the physical and engineering sciences spanning across the competencies of the Munitions Directorate. Additionally, as Deputy Director, Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, she directed a staff of more than 800 military, civilian and contractors developing air-launched conventional munitions technology. The Munitions Directorate leads the discovery, development and integration of affordable warfighting conventional air-launched weapon technologies for the U.S. Air Force. The activities of the Munitions Directorate include research on missile seekers, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), image processing, munitions integration, warheads, fuzing, energetics and technology assessment methodology.

Segrid entered Civil Service in May 1984 through the Federal Junior Fellowship program at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and has over 30 years of engineering, logistics, and supply chain experience in research and development, acquisition and sustainment. She has held leadership positions throughout the Department of Air Force in multiple geographic locations.

Prior to her role as the Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munition Directorate, Segrid was Chief, Ordnance Division, Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. She led a team of 250 scientists, engineers, technicians and logisticians in the development, integration, and transition of air-to-air and air-to-surface ordnance technologies (energetic/explosive materials, fuze/initiation devices and warheads/damage mechanisms) for air-launched munitions.