NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Associate Director of Management Burt Summerfield is shown with the Florida spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building in the background on June 29, 2022. Summerfield, who began his career at the center in 1982, is responsible for management of Kennedy’s Center Management and Operations (CMO) budget. His duties include executing the center’s strategic analysis, planning, business development, and communications capability that guide key center decisions and relationships.