Mike Milbert has 28 years of technical experience and expertise with NASA and non-NASA positions. He currently works for the NASA Safety Center (NSC) at Kennedy Space Center, where he serves as the analyst for the Quality, Audit, Assessment and Review, and the Institutional, Facility, Operational Safety Audits, and participates as an auditor for these two programs. In addition, he has been tasked with Electrical Safety analysis for the NASA Engineering Safety Center and served as the technical expert for the NASA Electrical Safety Working Group.
He was a member of the Source Evaluation Board for the recent acquisition of the Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Support Services III contract. Milbert’s technical experience and expertise include working in Avionics Engineering on the shuttle data processing systems at Kennedy. He was also active in avionics and electrical engineering for Level 3/2 flight articles with the Kennedy Payload Processing Directorate. He was responsible for electrical flight processing for the International Space Station, along with the development, operation and maintenance of associated electrical ground systems.
Milbert was acknowledged in a National Electrical Code Digest article “Three, Two, One, Liftoff” and for his efforts with the development of the “Complete Guide to Arc Flash Hazard Calculation Studies.” He was the team lead that invented an electrical safety device patented as a NASA New Technology.
He currently is a guest member of several NASA agency working groups including Quality, Workmanship/Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Government-Industry Data Exchange Program, Electrical Safety and Fire Protection. In addition, Milbert supports the NSC Mishap Investigation Support Office, to include an eight-month detail, and the Knowledge Management Support Office, primarily in the field of Electrical Safety. He also has participated on the Exploration Ground Systems Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), Independent Review Team for Kennedy, focusing on the review of Ground System projects and Safety and Mission Assurance support from 2017-2018.
Milbert holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer, certified energy manager, certified fiber optic splicer, certified ESD aerospace & defense engineer and certified aerospace Quality Management lead auditor. He also has completed Level 2 in the SMA Technical Excellence Program.
