NASA
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The National Institutes of Health released a job announcement for its director of the Center for IT but not yet a job announcement for its CIO role after Andrea Norris retired in December.
January 12, 2023 -
Mary Davie, deputy associate administrator for the Mission Support Directorate at NASA, joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to discuss the importance of value based leadership.
December 30, 2022 -
The fiscal 2023 omnibus includes several technology-related policy provisions that agencies should pay close attention to over the next year.
December 22, 2022 -
NASA computing and data science people are collaborating to find mission-related applications for artificial intelligence. For their work, they recently received an award from ARTAC, the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center.
December 19, 2022 -
NASA runs on software, as do many federal agencies. Rockets are what they are known for, sure, but controlling them and interpreting data, even handling human resources and finances all require software. Currently, NASA is in development of over 1,000 software features leveraging agile.
December 14, 2022 -
NASA has released it's second ever Economic Impact Report. To learn more about what it contained this time around I spoke with Margaret Vo Schaus, NASA's chief financial officer.
December 07, 2022 -
One of the participants in the Atmosphere Observing System mission is the Canadian Space Agency. To discuss the role it will be playing in this project, I got a chance to talk to Thomas Piekutowski, who is head of the AOS mission delivery office at CSA.
December 07, 2022 -
A lot more accidents and near misses occur on the nation's railroads than you might realize. The Federal Railroad Administration tracks incidents using what's known as the Confidential Close Call Reporting System or C3RS. But the Government Accountability Office found that only a handful of railroads participate, so there's a big gap in safety data.
December 07, 2022 -
Federal technology executives around government were moving into new jobs, retiring or heading to the private sector over the last few months.
November 29, 2022 -
President Joe Biden picked 233 federal employees across 33 agencies as winners of the 2022 Presidential Rank Awards.
November 15, 2022 -
Zeb Scoville has been a flight director at NASA for nearly a decade and the Space Hour had a chance to ask him about the new class of flight directors.
November 09, 2022 -
One of the drawbacks of traveling to deep space that remains relatively unknown is what the effects of no gravity could have on human biology. Especially the central nervous system.
November 09, 2022 -
Gwendolyn Sykes has operated as a CFO at large federal agencies and in two major universities. At the moment. She's the CFO of the Secret Service, and also a new fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration.
November 03, 2022 -
Karla Smith-Jackson, the senior procurement executive and deputy chief acquisition officer at NASA, said the NASA Acquisition Innovation Lab will provide mission and program areas a safe space to test out new acquisition approaches.
October 31, 2022 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission certified two classes of employees in a racial discrimination case at NASA that’s nearly a decade old.
October 07, 2022