Rex Geveden

Who is Rex Geveden?

Rex Geveden is the Executive Vice President of Teledyne Technologies Inc and President of Teledyne Dalsa in Waterloo, Ontario. Previously he was the president of Teledyne Brown Engineering and the Associate Administrator of NASA before that. He was selected for that position by NASA chief Michael Griffin on August 17, 2005, after having served in an acting capacity since June of that year. Griffin created the position immediately prior to assigning Geveden to fill it. The Associate Administrator's task is described as "oversight for all the agency's technical missions' areas and field center operations". Griffin also suggested Geveden was his right-hand man, saying "...if you get a decision from Rex, it's the agency's decision."

Geveden's first job out of college was at Teledyne Brown Engineering. After a few years at Teledyne Brown, Geveden joined NASA in 1990, and worked on hardware design for a number of science satellite missions, including as project manager for the Optical Transient Detector satellite, the Lightning Imaging Sensor satellite, and the Gravity Probe B satellite, a successful test of frame dragging effects predicted by General Relativity.