Marv Nuss is the owner of NuSS Sustainment Solutions.
Marv Nuss is an engineering consultant focusing on aircraft structures airworthiness and sustainment. He has over 50 years experience in aircraft fatigue, damage tolerance, and continued airworthiness. He has worked FAA part 23, 25, and 27 and Army, Navy, and Air Force projects.
Since founding NuSS in 2011, Marv has provided consulting and training services for a variety of private sector, government, and academic organizations on four continents.
Marv retired from the FAA in December 2011 after serving over 20 years in a variety of roles at the Small Airplane Certification Directorate. He was most recently the Directorate’s program manager for Continued Operational Safety and involved in a broad spectrum of continued airworthiness issues for all sizes and classes of aircraft. He helped solve structural in-service problems, investigated accidents, and educated aircraft owners, mechanics, and engineers about the effects of aging. He worked on regulation, policy, process, and research related to sustainment and aging aircraft. Marv also has FAA management experience; he was a Branch Manager and the Directorate’s Assistant Manager. He dealt with a wide range of type certification and production quality activity. He also participated on industry-FAA teams that developed improved certification processes.
Prior to joining the FAA, Marv worked for 18 years in industry. He was a structural fatigue analyst at Bell Helicopter and McDonnell Aircraft companies. He was involved in several design, in-service, and fatigue test projects on helicopters and fighter aircraft. Through McDonnell Douglas, he also spent a year with the CASA-Spain design team certifying their small transport airplanes to FAA part 25 damage tolerance requirements.
Marv has a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas and did graduate study in engineering mechanics at the University of Texas-Arlington.
Marv has served on the University of Kansas School of Engineering Advisory Board since 2010, Chair from 2014-2020. He has served on KU's Aerospace Engineering Department Advisory Board since 1992; Chair from 1996-2015. Marv was inducted into the KU Aerospace Engineering Department's Alumni Honor Roll in 2015. He received the KU School of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Service Award in 2019. Marv holds an active Private Pilot certificate.
Marv Nuss is an engineering consultant focusing on aircraft structures airworthiness and sustainment. He has over 50 years experience in aircraft fatigue, damage tolerance, and continued airworthiness. He has worked FAA part 23, 25, and 27 and Army, Navy, and Air Force projects.
Since founding NuSS in 2011, Marv has provided consulting and training services for a variety of private sector, government, and academic organizations on four continents.
Marv retired from the FAA in December 2011 after serving over 20 years in a variety of roles at the Small Airplane Certification Directorate. He was most recently the Directorate’s program manager for Continued Operational Safety and involved in a broad spectrum of continued airworthiness issues for all sizes and classes of aircraft. He helped solve structural in-service problems, investigated accidents, and educated aircraft owners, mechanics, and engineers about the effects of aging. He worked on regulation, policy, process, and research related to sustainment and aging aircraft. Marv also has FAA management experience; he was a Branch Manager and the Directorate’s Assistant Manager. He dealt with a wide range of type certification and production quality activity. He also participated on industry-FAA teams that developed improved certification processes.
Prior to joining the FAA, Marv worked for 18 years in industry. He was a structural fatigue analyst at Bell Helicopter and McDonnell Aircraft companies. He was involved in several design, in-service, and fatigue test projects on helicopters and fighter aircraft. Through McDonnell Douglas, he also spent a year with the CASA-Spain design team certifying their small transport airplanes to FAA part 25 damage tolerance requirements.
Marv has a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas and did graduate study in engineering mechanics at the University of Texas-Arlington.
Marv has served on the University of Kansas School of Engineering Advisory Board since 2010, Chair from 2014-2020. He has served on KU's Aerospace Engineering Department Advisory Board since 1992; Chair from 1996-2015. Marv was inducted into the KU Aerospace Engineering Department's Alumni Honor Roll in 2015. He received the KU School of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Service Award in 2019. Marv holds an active Private Pilot certificate.