Agency in Focus
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Much like every other agency in the federal government, the Navy is experimenting with how to implement the latest technological advancements to their mission.
October 12, 2018 -
Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer is focusing on changing the Navy culture to become more agile and efficient, to maximize the resources that it has at any given time.
October 05, 2018 -
Nanette Hardin is the division manager of NASA programs at Leidos. In this interview with Federal News Radio’s Tom Temin, Hardin describes some of the work the company does in support of the ISS.
September 25, 2018 -
NASA has fostered a less dramatic public image over the years, pursuing research over exploration. But it may be preparing to invade the mainstream once again.
September 21, 2018 -
NASA's Planetary Science Division focusing research and projects on missions within the solar system to determine what evolution of other planets could potentially reveal about Earth.
September 14, 2018 -
NASA’s Office of Inspector General said the agency won’t be able to continue to fund the ISS and pursue missions outside low-earth orbit without significantly more funding.
September 07, 2018 -
Harrison Schmitt, first scientist in space and former U.S. senator, said NASA was mostly oriented on a single goal during the Apollo program, and that's what made it successful.
August 31, 2018 -
The Johnson Space Center’s Engineering Directorate has its hands full as NASA begins to ramp up toward a new era of spaceflight and exploration.
August 24, 2018 -
NASA is embarking on a new era of space exploration in which humans will travel deeper into the solar system than ever before. Its Gateway platform in lunar orbit will be the key to its plans.
August 17, 2018 -
NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center scientists have to big projects in store that they hope will help us learn more about the sun and look further into space to learn how suns and galaxies formed just after the Big Bang.
August 10, 2018 -
NASA has always faced unique challenges among the federal community because of the nature of its mission. Now those challenges are extending to its IT modernization efforts.
August 03, 2018 -
While most people only think of the final few moments of a launching a NASA spacecraft, the full process spans two well-choreographed days.
July 27, 2018 -
NASA is taking an incremental approach to a potential Mars mission, with the proposed 2020 launch of its new Space Launch System as the next step in space exploration.
July 20, 2018 -
The Webb space telescope's new launch date is March 2021. It will be larger than Hubble and 100 times better, according to NASA Program Manager Gregory Robinson.
July 13, 2018 -
The changing dynamic in space exploration is turning out to be mutually beneficial for both NASA and the companies with which it finds itself collaborating.
July 06, 2018