Tam Ngo is the Gateway Core Flight System (cFS) lead at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). She has over 35 years of software development in various technical domains, from robotic software architecture, robotic path planner and task-execution engine, to Fault Detection, Isolation & Recovery (FDIR) and Display & Control (D&C) as well as development & testing tools.

Tam’s involvement with cFS started in 2010 while working on a JSC in-house project called Morpheus. She started as a cFS end user and shortly after became a cFS app and tool developer, contributing to the cFS ecosystem from JSC.  Besides Morpheus, she also worked on and/or provided cFS technical support to other JSC projects that use cFS such as the Orion Ascent Abort 2 (AA2), the Orion Backup Flight System (BFS) and the Orion Optical Navigation (OpNav).  She next served as the cFS lead for the Advance Exploration System (AES) project before her current role now as the cFS lead for Gateway.  Her team is responsible for developing, maintaining and distributing Gateway cFS bundle releases which consist of approximately 32 re-usable and certifiable cFS products that are used across the Gateway modules.