Ginger Macheske
General Manager, National Intelligence Division
The Aerospace Corporation
Ginger Macheske is the General Manager of the of the National Intelligence Division (NID) in the National Systems Group (NSG) of the Aerospace Corporation. In this role she is responsible for Aerospace support to multiple elements within the Intelligence Community including ODNI, CIA, NGA, and ACC. Aerospace is a national nonprofit corporation that operates a Federally Funded Research and Development Center with a staff of highly skilled scientists and engineers and operates a National Laboratory. She leads the NID team to bring trusted, objective expertise in multiple disciplines to ground, air and space systems.
Ms. Macheske has over 35 years with Aerospace. Prior to her current position, she served in various customer facing organizations leading Aerospace support to multiple major acquisitions as well as R&D systems. She has extensive experience in architecture, design, development, testing, production, and operation of national security space systems. She has served as a trusted advisor to senior government leaders on space and ground system acquisitions and has served as Aerospace lead on numerous Independent Review Teams and Independent Program Assessments. She has a history of leading diverse high-performing technical teams.
Ms. Macheske holds a Master of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Science Aerospace Engineering from University of California in Los Angeles.