As a Senior Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton, Bill Bastedo leads the firm’s engagements with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Air Force space programs, and projects supporting the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.
He has over 28 years of expertise in systems engineering and program management of complex programs for federal government clients. His career has been split between leadership roles in the civil service and roles in the industrial community. At NASA, he held leadership positions in the Space Shuttle, Space Station, and expendable launch vehicle and Payload Processing programs.
In 1985, he began his career with Rockwell International in Downey, CA, as a systems engineer supporting both the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs. He joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 1987, and managed the Space Station Freedom Program Support contract for the firm.
In 1989, Mr. Bastedo accepted a civil service leadership position in the engineering division of the NASA Space Station Freedom Program Office, where he led all systems engineering functions for the most complex program NASA had ever attempted. This included defining and optimizing the overall vehicle configuration, defining the on-orbit assembly sequence, conducting integrated vehicle performance analyses and trade-offs to derive performance requirements for the 28 constituent flight elements to drive their designs.
Mr. Bastedo subsequently served at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where he developed and directed an industrial engineering capability to optimize and streamline Space Shuttle Ground operations. Later as the Deputy Director of the Payloads and Expendable Launch Vehicle Directorate, he helped direct the second largest organization at KSC. Reassigned to the Johnson Space Center, Mr. Bastedo was asked to serve as the NASA project manager for the development, test, and launch preparations of the first element of the Space Station Program. For his contributions to this effort, Mr. Bastedo was awarded with the prestigious NASA Leadership Medal.
Mr. Bastedo returned to Booz Allen in 1999 to assist in the transformation of Booz Allen’s NASA market and subsequently led all of the Air Force and NASA space programs for the firm. In addition, he has been instrumental in helping Booz Allen develop the firm’s systems engineering capability. Most recently, Mr. Bastedo has been focusing on helping lead Booz Allen’s environmental, transportation and energy businesses with an emphasis on engagements with aviation clients such as the NexGen program with the FAA.
Mr. Bastedo is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and an invited member of various advisory panels.
He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
profile updated May 2012
