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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
NUCLEAR AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SPACE (NETS-2025) PLENARY SPEAKER
Georgette Alexander-Morrison leads X-energy’s Capture & Proposals. She is responsible for the formulation and implementation of X-energy’s portfolio of U.S. Government contracts/grants and establish a pipeline of contract opportunities for the US Government, including the Department of Energy and the system of National Laboratories, the Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, and the NRC - including the reactor development for NASA’s Fission Surface Power (FSP) project and XENITH - the X-energy commercial microreactor.
Her most recent position was Vice President of Capture and Proposal Management, where Georgette was responsible for organizing, refining, and executing business proposal processes, leading key pursuits and responses, and developing staff for capture and proposal leadership roles. She has over 25 years of business development, capture, and proposal management experience primarily in aerospace systems and engineering services, but now also in nuclear systems including Government and Commercial pursuits. Georgette joined X-energy in 2021 to capture and lead Space Nuclear projects.
Georgette has over 35+ years’ experience in civil space, private industry, space and defense hardware, and NASA services. Early career focused on materials science and metallurgy including 3 years at Fairchild Space and 5 years with DOE development projects at Y-12 Facility and ORNL (Oak Ridge TN).
She holds a BS with High Honors in Material Sciences and Engineering (MSE) from the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), and a MS in Industrial Engineering (Engineering Management) from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN). Her credentials also include continuing education in proposal management, capture management, business development, and government contracting. Georgette holds a DoD Secret Clearance.
Georgette is a member of the Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) and volunteered for its Board of Directors for several years. She served as a volunteer for NASA’s “Girls Nights In” at Goddard Space Flight Center and “Girls Night” at Wallops Flight Facility as a speaker for “Girls Get Science.” She is a member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society (AAS), American Nuclear Society (ANS), Nuclear Energy Institute(NEI), Women in Aerospace (WIA), and Women in Nuclear (WIN). Honorary: Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Sigma Mu, Omicron Delta Kappa.
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