Biography

Steve Shinn is the vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer for The Aerospace Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for providing leadership for Aerospace’s financial and business processes, including accounting, finance, and treasury operations. Shinn manages the corporation’s ongoing business transformation to modernize business functions and financial tools, optimizing Aerospace’s ability to effectively deliver on government and commercial customers’ critical missions.

Previously, Shinn served as acting CFO at NASA, where he ensured the financial health of the agency and oversaw all financial management, budget, strategic planning, and performance activities related to NASA’s programs and operations. Simultaneously, he also held the title of deputy CFO at NASA, where he led strategic planning, performance reporting, budget analysis, justification, control, and reporting of all fiscal resources relating to NASA’s programs and operations across a $25 billion-plus annual portfolio and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of more than 1,600 personnel within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer.

He has served NASA since 2011 in various roles including NASA deputy CFO, Goddard Space Flight Center CFO, and GSFC Deputy Director of Flight Projects. Prior to Federal government service, Shinn worked in industry, both in for-profit and non-profit organizations leading major initiatives for civilian and Department of Defense programs. His industry experience includes various management positions in mission budget formulation, life-cycle pricing, cost management, parametric modeling, accounting, project planning and control, financial management, operations management, earned value management, scheduling, and capital budgeting. His last industry position was group supervisor for the Space Operations Management Group at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

He has earned numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award (2021), NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal (2021, 2019, 2015), Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Leadership Award (2015) for leading business change and organizational management, NASA’s Cost Estimating Leadership Award, three team awards for Quality and Process Improvements, and NASA’s Equal Employment Opportunity Medal (2016).