As Systems Engineering Chief, Koons-Stapf works to develop
sound, repeatable digital engineering offerings, pursuing
research and investments in digital thread and digital
twins. Koons-Stapf has led solutions for digital
engineering opportunities across all of SAIC’s government
customers while directing various logistics programs to
ensure that the logistics and supply chain requirements
of SAIC customers are met.
Koons-Stapf joined SAIC in 2008 as a reliability engineer
at Kennedy Space Center, where she worked with NASA
engineers to quantitatively perform reliability, availability,
and maintainability (RAM) analyses on various systems
and subsystems. Koons-Stapf was instrumental in
improving the overall launch availability from the Space
Shuttle program to Ground Systems Development and
Operations (GSDO) from 88% to 98%.
Koons-Stapf has been featured in more than a dozen
conferences and publications, including the Military
Operations Research Society Symposium, the IEEE
International Reliability Physics Symposium, the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SpaceOps
Conference, and many more.
She has received numerous awards, including the Society of
Women Engineers’ 2012 Space Coast Woman Engineer
Technical Achievement Award; NASA KSC Certificate of
Appreciation for “dedication and innovation supporting the
reliability, maintainability, and availability field”; and
Certificate of Appreciation from the KLXS contract for
“pioneering efforts within the RAM community to directly
support the NASA LX customer,” among others.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics
from Georgia Tech; completed graduate courses in
mathematics, probability, and statistics at the University of
Central Florida; and is a Certified Reliability Engineer.
