Nancy Laubenthal serves as the Deputy Chief of the Computational and Information Sciences & Technology Office (CISTO).  This Office provides Supercomputing, High End Networking, IT Security, and Information Sciences Research solutions to the Sciences and Exploration Directorate (SED) at NASA Goddard.   Nancy manages Directorate-wide Information Technology initiatives. These include governing the SED IT Council, ensuring that strong IT Security measures are created and maintained, and overseeing projects, like the development of a virtual machine computing environment for scientific research, and the consolidated website restructuring.   She is responsible for implementing IT changes driven by both advancing technology and Federal requirements, which includes exploring how to incorporate cloud computing and other types of virtualization innovations to the organization.

Led the SSDOO Configuration Control Board and the evolution of the SSDOO and National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) computing infrastructure.  Served as Directorate focal point for Information Technology (IT) and IT security issues.

Managed the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) Data Analysis software effort, managed the LHEA computing environment and system administrators, and oversaw software development for other astrophysics missions.

Developed data analysis software for second High Energy Astrophysics Observatory (HEAO-2), and ground support equipment (GSE) software for astrophysics missions.