NASA
It's been more than three months since astronaut and flight engineer Scott Kelly joined the Expedition 43 crew aboard the International Space Station. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend about a year living and working aboard the station to help scientists better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space. Shortly before the failure of a third try at getting supplies to the Space Station, Kelly joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an update on the mission. He says astronauts don't feel isolated.
June 30, 2015-
Breaking news on Monday: NASA is getting a new deputy chief information officer. Sources say Renee Wynn is moving to the space agency after spending the last four years as the Environmental Protection Agency’s deputy…
June 30, 2015 -
NASA\'s Ames Research Center has a new director. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently placed Dr. Eugene Tu in charge of the California-based center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Tu joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to talk about his new position and his priorities now that he\'s in charge. First, he recapped the center\'s history and its mission.
June 18, 2015 -
Students from eight universities are spending the next year working on new technology projects for deep space exploration. The X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge, led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation, has teams working on additive manufacturing, advanced life support systems, space habitation and systems for food production in space. Jason Crusan is the director of the Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the projects.
June 15, 2015 -
Joanne Woytek, program manager of the NASA SEWP program, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about SEWP V. June 8, 2015
June 08, 2015 -
NASA has awarded contracts to 118 small, disadvantaged companies under its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP V) contract, a multi-award Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) vehicle focused on information technology products and product-based services.
April 03, 2015 -
NASA has released the awardees of the multi-billion dollar SEWP V contract for two of the four procurement groups.
March 26, 2015 -
NASA still is five months away from kicking off its next generation governmentwide acquisition contract. That'll be known as SEWP 5 — Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement. In the meantime though, it's rolling out some updates for the current SEWP program. SEWP program manager Joanne Woytek joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain exactly what that entails.
March 18, 2015 -
Joanne Woytek, program manager for NASA SEWP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the performance of NASA SEWP IV, and what's ahead with NASA SEWP V. March 17, 2015
March 17, 2015 -
Last Monday was the first day on the job for Steve Jurczyk. He was recently appointed as the associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA. He served as the deputy center director before this new assignment. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on what the center does, and what he hopes it will accomplish under his tenure.
March 10, 2015 -
Political leaders from both the White House and Congress are offering up ways to improve the SES. The latest in our special report, Fixing the SES, is "Why We Stay: SES In Their Own Words." Jeri Buchholz, an SES member and chief human capital officer at NASA, is taking an enterprise-wide view of the system. She tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp, the SES has its faults but it's essential to the government.
February 16, 2015 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is promoting from within for its new chief information officer. NASA is losing a key senior technology executive to retirement.
February 16, 2015 -
The SES has lost its luster in recent years, in part because of constrained program budgets, increased scrutiny from Congress, and a sense among members that political appointees are assuming more of the leadership responsibilities once reserved for them. In part two of our special report, Fixing the SES, five Senior Executive Service members tell Federal News Radio why they choose to stay in the service, and why they believe the SES may have its faults, but it's not broken.
February 16, 2015 -
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up on a project to let scientists and astronauts walk virtually on Mars. Project OnSight employs new, wearable technology just released last month. For more on the program and its possibilities, Jeff Norris, NASA's OnSight program manager, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive.
February 09, 2015 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sure, $4 trillion sounds like a lot. But it goes fast when your budget stretches from aging highways to medical care to space travel and more. Here’s an agency-by-agency look at how…
February 03, 2015