Career
In 1956 West began to work at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, where she was the second black woman ever to be employed.
She participated in an astronomical study that proved, during the early 1960s, the regularity of Pluto’s motion relative to Neptune.
Subsequently, West began to analyze data from satellites,
putting together altimeter models of the Earth's shape.
Her supervisor
Ralph Neiman recommended her as project manager for the Seasat radar altimetry project, the first satellite that could remotely sense oceans.
In 1979, Neiman recommended West for commendation.
West was a programmer in the Dahlgren Division for large-scale
computers and a project manager for data-processing systems used in the
analysis of satellite data.
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