CFD Research is pleased to announce the promotion of Katie Starck to Director within our Program Management office. Katie currently leads our Hypersonics Ground Test Tunnel OTA with the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command, for which CFD Research is the Prime. Katie joined CFD Research in 2020 as a Manager with 9+ years of experience leading multiple, complex contracts at Redstone Test Center, including the RTC-Wide Engineering and Support Services contract. She was also simultaneously the Program Manager on a subcontract under the RTC Engineering Test Support Services contract. Katie has her MBA from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill.