Patricia Glaab

Trish Glaab began her NASA Langley Research Center career in 1985, first as a contractor supporting the human-in-the-loop simulation research, and eventually transitioning to aeronautics research as a civil servant. As a simulation software engineer, she developed software models and hosted research testing for military fighter, general aviation, and commercial transport aircraft in the human-in-the-loop simulation labs of the Simulation Development and Analysis Branch (SDAB, D107).

After transitioning to the civil servant workforce with the Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch (ASAB) in 2009, she conducted research supporting airspace operational efficiency and capacity improvements. In subsequent years, Trish served as Tech Lead for the Multidisciplinary Design Analysis & Optimization (MDAO) team for the Transformational Tools & Technologies (TTT) Project, Portfolio Manager for Langley’s Transformation Initiative (ACT2), Subproject Manager for Automated Flight and Contingency Management (AFCM) in the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Project, and Subproject Manager for Pathfinding for Airspace with Automated Vehicles (PAAV) in the Air Traffic Management eXploration (ATM-X) Project.

In 2023 she returned to the ASAB Branch to assume her current role as Branch Head.

Awards
Patents:

• U.S. Patent Number 10,403,153: P. Glaab, L. Glaab, “Safe2Ditch — Autonomous Emergency Flight Management to a Safe and Clear Landing Site”

Provisional Patents:

• US Provisional Patent Application 61/865,7062, P. Glaab, “Terminal Airspace Configuration Scheduler (TACS)”, NASA Langley Research Center, 2013
• US Provisional Patent Application 61/620,556, P. Glaab, “Arrival Capacity Calculator (ACC)”, NASA Langley Research Center, 2012

Professional Awards

• Group Achievement Award, Advanced Air Mobility IAS-1 Research Flight Team, March 2024
• Inventions and Contributions Board, Safe2Ditch Technology Achievement, August 2024
• Silver Group Achievement Award, for “Exceptional technology achievement and implementation of the System for Award Management 889 Compliance Tool streamlining credit card purchasing across NASA,” July 2023
• NASA Langley Patent Award, in honor of U.S. Patent Number 10,403,153 for “Autonomous Emergency Flight management System for an Unmanned Aerial System”, October 2020
• Best Paper in Session, 33rd DASC Conference, October 2014
• Performance Award, Director of the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate, September 2013
• NASA Group Achievement Award, NASA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Team, June 2011
• NASA Group Achievement Award, Ares I-X System Engineering and Integration Team, May 2010
• NASA Group Achievement Award, Ares I-X Guidance, Navigation, & Control Team, May 2010
• NASA LaRC Center Team Award, Ares I-X SE&I Team, January 2010
• NASA LaRC Center Team Award, Ares I-X System Engineering and Integration Team, June 2009
• NASA Group Achievement Award, eXternal Visibility System/All Weather Landing Experiment Team, March 2009
• NASA LaRC Director’s Award (Group), Ares I-X GNC Team, NASA Langley, February 2009
• Collier Trophy, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Team, Aug 2008
• NASA LaRC Center Team Award, Ares Project Team, May 2008
• Group Achievement Award, Ares 1-X CDR Team, Oct 2008
• NASA Center Team Award, ARES 1 Project DAC 1 Team, March 2007
• NASA LaRC Center Director’s Award, First NASA Group to Achieve CMMI Capability Level 3, May 2006
• Pride @ Boeing Award, Enhanced Ground Collision Avoidance System Team, Dec 2005
• Space Act Award, LaSRS++ Framework Development Team, Sept 2005
• Personal Commendation from NASA LaRC Center Director, NASA Software of the Year Award Presentation, July 2005
• NASA Langley Software of the Year Award, LaSRS++ Simulation Framework Team, June 2005
• Unisys Bronze Recognition Award, NASA Research Flight Management System (NRFMS) Lead, July 2003
• Unisys Recognition Award for Customer Relationship Survey Recognition, June 2001
  Group Achievement Award, Airborne Information for Lateral Spacing (AILS) Research Team, June 2001
• Unisys Achievement Award for Excellence, Outstanding Contributions in Flight Simulation, Dec 2000
• Letter of Appreciation, GEM1 Simulation Team, Oct 1992
• Letter of Commendation, AFC1 and AFC3 Simulation, April 1990
• Special Achievement Award for Group Accomplishment, LaRC Advanced Flight Simulation System Development and Implementation Team, April 1988

Education/Professional Experience

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, 1983
• Member of the Engineering Staff, Sperry Corporation, Reston VA, 1983 – 1985
• Simulation Engineer, Unisys, Assigned to the Simulation Development & Analysis Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, 1985 – 2009
• Research Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, 2009 – 2022
• Supervisory, NASA Langley Research Center, 2023 – Current

Publications

• Glaab, P., Tamburro, R., Lee, P.: Analysis of the Capacity Potential of Current Day and Novel Runway Configurations for New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, Aviation 2016 Conference Paper, Washington, DC, 2016.
• Palopo, K., Chatterji, G., Guminsky, M., and Glaab, P.: Shadow Mode Assessment using Realistic Technologies for the National Airspace System (SMART NAS) Test Bed Development, Aviation 2015 Conference Paper, Dallas, TX, 2015.
• Glaab, Patricia: A Unified LaSRS++ Framework for Variable-Fidelity Simulation, 33rd DASC Conference, AIAA, Colorado Springs, CO, October 2014.
• Glaab, Patricia: Improved Throughput with Cooperating Futuristic Airspace Management Components, DASC 2013 Conference Paper 127, Syracuse, NY, October 2013.
• Santos, M., Feinberg, A., Tang, Y., Teng, Y. (IAI), and Glaab, P. (NASA), Studies of Perturbations to Flight Traffic and Routes on Simulated M&S Operations at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 2012 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Herndon, VA, April 2012.
• Glaab, Patricia: A Validation Study of Merging and Spacing Techniques in a NAS-Wide Simulation, 2011 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Herndon, VA, April 2011.
• Glaab, Patricia: Investigation of the Expected Confidence of Monte Carlo Results of Flight Dynamics Predictions of the Ares I-X Flight Test Vehicle, NASA, AIX-TAR-GNC0006, June 30, 2009.
• Jay Brandon; Patricia Glaab: Ares-I-1 Lift-Off Drift Analysis, NASA Langley AVIO Report, November 6, 2006.
• Glaab, P. C.; and Madden, M. M.: A Generic Object-Oriented Implementation for Flight Control Systems, AIAA-99-4339, 1999.
• Glaab, P. C.; Cunningham, K.; Kenney, P. S.; Leslie, R. A.; Geyer, D. W.; and Madden, M. M.: A Method to Interface Auto-Generated Code into an Object-Oriented Simulation Framework, AIAA-98-4531, 1998.
• Cunningham, K.; Kenney, P. S.; Leslie, R. A.; Geyer, D. W.; Madden, M. M.; and Glaab, P. C.: Simulation of a F/A-18 Drop Model Using the LaSRS++ Framework, AIAA-98-4160, 1998.
• Geyer, D. W.; Madden, M. M.; Glaab, P. C.; Cunningham, K.; Kenney, P. S.; and Leslie, R. A.: Managing Shared Memory Spaces in An Object-Oriented Real-Time Simulation, AIAA-98-4532, 1998.
• Kenney, P. S.; Leslie, R. A.; Geyer, D. W.; Madden, M. M.; Glaab, P. C.; and Cunningham, K.: Using Abstraction to Isolate Hardware in an Object-Oriented Simulation, AIAA-98-4533, 1998.
• Leslie, R. A.; Geyer, D. W.; Cunningham, K.; Glaab, P. C.; Kenney, P. S.; and Madden, M. M.: LaSRS++ – An Object-Oriented Framework for Real-Time Simulation of Aircraft, AIAA-98-4529, 1998.
• Madden, M. M.; Glaab, P. C.; Cunningham, K.; Leslie, R. A.; Kenney, P. S.; and Geyer, D. W.: Constructing a Multiple-Vehicle, Multiple-CPU Simulation Using Object-Oriented Techniques, AIAA-98-4530, 1998.
• Brandon, J.M.; Carzoo, S.W.; Glaab, P.C.: Real-Time Piloted Simulation Mathematical Model of an Advanced Twin-Engine Fighter Aircraft (U), NASA, April 1994.
• Glaab, L.J.; Riley, D.R.; Brandon, J.M.; Person, L.H.; Glaab, P.C.: Piloted simulation Study of the Effect of High-Lift Aerodynamics on the Takeoff Noise of a Representative High Speed Civil Transport, NASA CDTP – 1004, June 1994.