NASA
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NASA\'s online dashboard tracks the agency\'s open government goals.
November 22, 2010 -
Learn more about a NASA plans to clear hurdles for deep space travel
November 22, 2010 -
NASA\'s inspector general designated information technology security as one of eight top management and performance challenges the space agency faces.
November 18, 2010 -
Adrian Gardner has been the chief information officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for 10 months. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller spoke with Gardner recently about his priorities for the agency. Gardner says one of his goals is to understand the needs of the scientific community. If you look at computing here at Goddard [...]
November 15, 2010 -
The women named as Heroines are women business owners and leaders who devote their energy to charities of choice to better their communities.
November 11, 2010 -
Software developed at NASA\'s Ames Research Center is enabling fuel savings for airlines while also increasing their planes\' environmental efficiency. The Ames Direct-To software is a product of NASA aeronautics research in air traffic management. It enables airlines to save fuel and reduce emissions by automatically identifying flight shortcuts that are wind-favorable and acceptable to air traffic controllers. It\'s already been adopted by the Boeing Company for commercial use. Their offering a new air traffic efficiency service that uses the software. Project directors say they\'ve estimated a potential combined savings of about 900 flying minutes per day for all aircraft using the software. That means a potential savings of tens of thousands of flight minutes per year for a medium-sized airline.
November 08, 2010 -
It\'s been more than nine months since the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative began with the intent to reduce energy usage, lower IT costs and improve security. And some federal agencies are discovering that it\'s difficult to reduce spending without putting some money upfront first. NASA is just one of the federal agencies trying to [...]
November 03, 2010 -
Joanne Woytek is Program Manager for NASA\'s SEWP: Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement. She gives Tom Temin an update on the success of the program and tells him what lies ahead.
November 03, 2010 -
This is the first of several component contracts awarded under the I3P Program. NASA will use the contracts to procure services that provide agency-wide management, integration, and delivery of IT infrastructure services.
October 29, 2010 -
The Israel Antiquities Authority and Google are digitizing the 2000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, The Washington Post reports.
October 20, 2010 -
Gregory Wilshusen, director of Information Security Issues for GAO, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss GAO\'s recommendations to increase privacy in OPM background checks.
October 14, 2010 -
NASA played an integral role in the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile, The Wall Street Journal reports.
October 14, 2010 -
Weighing privacy vs. security after 9/11, the Supreme Court seems unwilling to stop federal investigations into the private lives of people who want to work at government installations _ even those who don\'t have security clearances and don\'t work on secret projects. Attorney Debra Roth explains.
October 14, 2010 -
NASA\'s sustainability policy is to execute NASA\'s mission without compromising our planet\'s resources so that future generations can meet their needs. Details from NASA\'s Olga Dominguez.
October 08, 2010 -
NASA will host two national science competitions that challenge students - six through 12 - to develop and prepare a microgravity experiment. Both competitions are open to teams across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and they can be formed from any type of organization or club, such as a science class, a group of friends, or youth group, and each team must have an adult advisor. A panel of NASA scientists and engineers will evaluate and select the best proposals by December first. The winning teams will design and build experiments that will be conducted in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower at NASA\'s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. When an experiment is \"dropped\" into the 79-foot tower, it experiences weightlessness for 2.2 seconds. The top four teams get an all-expenses-paid trip to conduct their experiments with NASA personnel.
September 27, 2010