Jackie Smith

Captain Jacqueline (Jackie) Smith is a Chief of Staff Captain's Prestigious Ph.D. Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently pursuing research in Space Policy and Sustainability in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at MIT in collaboration with the Space Enabled division of the MIT Media Lab. Previously, Capt. Smith served as the Digital Transformation and Innovation Officer for Space Launch Delta 45, project lead within the Space Force Headquarters Chief Technology and Innovation Office (founder of the Supra Coders program), and Director of Space CAMP (a software factory focused on the continuous development and deployment of space command and control applications). Captain Smith has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.