Nipa Shah is the Director of the Goddard Space Flight Center Office of Procurement. Ms. Shah served in a detail as the Deputy Center Director for Technology and Research Investments (Acting) for 8 months, responsible for managing the center’s research and development portfolio. Prior to that role, she served as the Deputy Director for Acquisitions of the GSFC Office of Procurement (OP) and Associate Chief leading the Earth Science procurement portfolio in the Office of Procurement, supporting the Earth Science Division, the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office, the Earth Science Flight Projects Division, Earth Science Technology Office and Planetary Science Projects Division. Ms. Shah started her federal career in 1995 at the Defense Logistics Agency as a Contract Specialist and spent three years at Arthur Andersen’s Office of Government Services. During her tenure at Goddard, Nipa has served every directorate of the Center, as well as the Independent Verification & Validation Facility, Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Wallops Flight Facility as Contracting Officer, branch head, procurement policy analyst and Office of Procurement division management.