February 19, 2025 Luncheon featuring Wes Deadrick, NASA IV&V Program Director

Wes Deadrick was the featured speaker at the MSBR luncheon on Wednesday, 2/19/25. Mr. Deadrick is the Director of NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program, located at the Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia. He is responsible for the leadership and technical direction of the IV&V Program and agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness for NASA’s most critical mission software.

View the presentation to learn more about the importance of IV&V, where the IV&V Program fit within NASA, which projects receive IV&V, and project capabilities.