Tony DiVenti

Anthony "Tony" DiVenti is currently Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) technical fellow at NASA Headquarters, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA), in Washington, D.C., where he is responsible for leading R&M policy development and providing research program oversight, technical direction, and support for NASA and its partners.

Most recently, DiVenti served as the Science and Exploration Directorate assistant director for Facilities and Program Support at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center prior to joining OSMA. Between 2001 and 2016, DiVenti worked for Goddard's Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Directorate in a number of roles including branch head for Reliability and Risk Analysis, center integrated risk manager, and center Lean Six Sigma manager. DiVenti helped Goddard SMA establish its stand-alone Reliability Engineering Branch in addition to advocating and supporting a number of process improvement initiatives including the creation of Goddard's Class-D Constitution, creation of the new Commodity Risk Assessment Engineer position, development of Institutional and cross-cutting Risk Management (RM) processes, development of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) tailoring criterion based on mission category and risk classification, support of Model-Based Mission Assurance initiatives and the incorporation of RM as a core component in early concept studies.

Prior to joining NASA, DiVenti worked in private industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (1989) and a master’s degree in Reliability Engineering (1995), both from the University of Maryland, College Park.