Greg Marlow transitioned to his role as the Director of the Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) in October 2025. SWO is responsible for a large group that develops, deploys, and sustains NOAA operational satellite systems that study space weather and safeguard society. SWO provides users with real-time data for generating space weather products and services, enabling them to provide timely and accurate forecasts, warnings, and alerts. The SWO office is responsible for the Space Weather Follow On program and the Space Weather Next program.
Mr. Marlow joined the Federal Government Senior Executive Service in early 2016 as the Deputy Director of NOAA’s Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO), then OSPO Director in March 2020. He directed the 550+ person team responsible for the successful operation of seventeen of the Nation’s environmental satellites along with the production and analysis of science products using the data from those satellites, and all operations at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, and at two Command and Data Acquisition Stations in Wallops Island, Virginia, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Before joining NOAA, Mr. Marlow had a successful 25+ year career at Intelsat, then the world’s largest commercial satellite provider, responsible for all mission critical systems. He directed the planning, development, testing, installation, and 24x7 support of all software systems and data center infrastructure used to operate and monitor the health and safety of the 75+ satellites in Intelsat’s fleet.
Mr. Marlow holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University along with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.