NASA
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Dr. Linda Sparke gets to "gawk at space hardware" as part of her job as research program manager in astrophysics at NASA,
April 29, 2016 -
Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations took the Homeland Security Department to task for six straight years of declining employee engagement scores on the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. DHS is ranked as the worst agency to work for in government.
April 27, 2016 -
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren got to throw out the first pitch before the April 26 Washington Nationals home game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
April 27, 2016 -
Workers at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Maryland continue to prepare the James Webb Space Telescope for its October 2018 launch.
April 26, 2016 -
New reports by the agency’s inspector general and a private company, called Security Scorecard, both highlight the space agency’s struggles around management and to control malware on their network.
April 25, 2016 -
Cold weather did not deter NASA officials and Washington-area students from helping first lady Michelle Obama plant seedlings in the White House Kitchen Garden on Tuesday. Across the National Mall, USDA employees participated in a spring planting at the People's Garden.
April 06, 2016 -
The space agency plans to evaluate and get feedback on Ames Research Center’s Gryphon X proposal to take a more proactive approach to finding and fixing critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
April 04, 2016 -
NASA Administrator recently paid a visit to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, where many of the crews of the International Space Station train.
April 01, 2016 -
The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) is calling on NASA to unleash Gryphon X, a next-generation cybersecurity concept.
March 28, 2016 -
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center used a crane to lift the James Webb Space Telescope so that they can add instruments to its back.
March 23, 2016 -
A Soyuz TMA-20M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, carrying NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams and two cosmonauts to the International Space Station. The crew of Expedition 47 will spend 5 1/2 months on the station.
March 21, 2016 -
Because cybersecurity is an operational, intellectual property and safety concern, program managers should look at cybersecurity the same way they consider engine readiness or whether oxygen lines leak.
March 18, 2016 -
Multiple current and former NASA employees say the space agency doesn’t prioritize cybersecurity, which has led to hundreds of thousands or millions of systems with outdated patches. One NASA official said its data and systems are ‘seriously weakened and prone to compromise’ because of culture and contractor problems.
March 15, 2016 -
Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) chairs the subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. For nearly a year, he's been pushing a bill to re-do NASA's management structure. He spoke with Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about it.
March 08, 2016 -
NASA doesn't quite measure up on the project management front, according to the Government Accountability Office. Christina Chaplain, GAO's director of acquisition and sourcing management, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
March 04, 2016