NASA

  • On today\'s Federal Drive: A shutdown looms larger as the Senate prepares to debate a continuing resolution and DHS officials said they are committed to the headquarters consolidation effort underway at St. Elizabeth\'s even as funding appears uncertain.

    September 26, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive: Talk of government shutdown has ratcheted up as lawmakers squabble over a CR, federal information sharing efforts have taken off and the House prepares to square off over various proposals to reform the Postal Service.

    September 21, 2011
  • NASA has created its own data portal to consolidate its vast warehouse of digital information and share it with the public. Data.NASA.gov starts off with a collection of 500 datasets on topics ranging from climate to aeronautics to life sciences and six other categories. The open data project also includes a selection of widgets and tools to manipulate and search for information. NASA says it receives more than 4 terabytes of digital data, just from its spacecraft missions, every day.

    September 19, 2011
  • NASA considers using a \"space taxi\" to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. More information from Jim Ball, NASA\'s deputy manager at the Center for Planning and Development.

    July 15, 2011
  • Marion Blakey is the President and CEO of the Aerospace Industry Association.

    July 14, 2011
  • As terminations become more likely due to tightening budgets, GAO said NASA needs to develop more guidance for its acquisition professionals. Cristina Chaplain, director of acquisitions and sourcing management at GAO, spoke with Federal News Radio about the recommendations.

    July 13, 2011
  • Boeing\'s vice president of commercial crew programs John Elbon joins the Federal Drive with information on his company\'s plans for commercial space exploration.

    July 13, 2011
  • Sue Leibert is with NASA\'s Johnson Space Center, where she heads up the Space Shuttle Transition Liaison Office. She explains how the agency is handling the workforce reduction accompanying the end of the shuttle program.

    July 12, 2011
  • A new report from OFPP finds agencies spent a billion dollars less on time-and-materials and labor hours type contracts in 2010. Still, OFPP found an overall increase in cost-reimbursement type contracts. Agencies have a goal to reduce by 10 percent these types of contracts, which the administration calls risky.

    July 12, 2011
  • William McNally, deputy CAO at NASA, discusses changes in the agency\'s acquisition workforce.

    June 14, 2011
  • NASA has been collaborating on innovative ideas and technologies dealing with such global challenges as water resources, clean air, health care and energy. We get details from team leader, and SAMMIE nominee, Diane Powell.

    May 16, 2011
  • A scammer selling cheap adobe software has hacked into NASA websites.

    May 12, 2011
  • Have you heard of OpenStack? It’s an open source cloud computing project from NASA and a group of tech companies. According to the OpenStack website, “All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project. We strongly [...]

    May 09, 2011
  • Tom Talleur, a former head of NASA\'s cyber crimes unit, tells us intergancy cooperation made the difference in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

    May 09, 2011
  • Will Schmitt, the open innovation advisor in the Office of Science and Technology at USAID, spoke to Federal News Radio about the collaborative effort.

    May 03, 2011