Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy
NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) brings together diverse, multidisciplinary experts to provide NASA leadership with analytic, strategic, and decisional insights in the form of quick-turn analyses, memos, and reports. OTPS also conducts numerous activities that include hosting informal discussion sessions, participating in chartered interagency working groups, and funding external research opportunities. The office is home to the agency chief technologist and agency chief economist.
Meet the OTPS Leadership
Charity Weeden
Associate Administrator for NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy
Ellen Gertsen
Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS)
A.C. Charania
Agency Chief Technologist, A.C. Charania serves as principal advisor to NASA’s administrator on technology policy and programs.
Alex MacDonald
Chief Economist at NASA
Erica Rodgers
Leads the Science and Technology Partnership Forum within NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy
Artemis in Motion Listening Sessions
As NASA pioneers new technologies and methods for storytelling in space for the benefit of humanity, the agency is hosting Artemis in Motion listening sessions with industry on Thursday, Jan. 23, and Friday, Jan. 24, in Los Angeles.
Learn More
Watch the replay of OTPS’ “Symposium on the Macroeconomics of Space”
Agency Chief Technologist Technology Analytics Research and Development Inventory Study (TARDIS)
