NASA has selected the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to maintain and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii. The Management and Operations of NASA’s IRTF is a hybrid firm-fixed-price contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision. The contract has a maximum potential value of approximately $85.5...
Katie Burlingame is an ETHOS (Environmental and Thermal Operating Systems) flight controller and instructor in the Flight Operations Directorate supporting the International Space Station. Burlingame trains astronauts and flight controllers on the International Space Station’s environmental control systems, internal thermal control systems, and emergency response...
NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations Contract II has a two-year base period that begins Oct. 1, followed by five option periods ranging from one to...
Originally published by Automox. Written by Landon Miles. If you’re unaware that cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and frequent, you probably don’t work in IT. Unfortunately, the traditional “trust but verify” approach to cybersecurity just isn’t adequate anymore. A Zero Trust security framework operates on the principle that threats can...
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, to provide an update on operations for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NASA anticipates Hubble will continue making discoveries, working with other observatories such as the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, throughout this decade and into the next. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on...
Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at Johnson Space Center, with 18 years of mission support under her belt. Her roles have included biomedical engineer flight controller, payload safety engineer for Artemis I, planning and analysis branch operations...
NASA selected Dina Contella as the deputy program manager and Bill Spetch as the operations integration manager for the agency’s International Space Station Program, effective Sunday, June 2. “Dina’s depth of experience with the complex and dynamic aspects of the space station mission will be instrumental for leading through future challenges,” said Dana Weigel...
The operations team determined this latest safe mode was triggered by a failure to properly unload momentum from the spacecraft’s reaction wheels, a routine activity needed to keep the satellite properly oriented when making observations. The propulsion system, which enables this momentum transfer, had not been successfully repressurized following a prior safe mode...
MEDIA ADVISORY: NAPA President & CEO Terry Gerton and Fellows to Testify Before House Subcommittee on Government Operations Post Date: July 22, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC – The National Academy of Public Administration President and CEO Terry Gerton will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations at a July 23rd...
The National Academy of Public Administration Releases Assessment of National Finance Center Operations Post Date: August 07, 2023 Panel Report Makes 16 Actionable Recommendations to Help NFC Stabilize and Modernize Operations WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Panel of the National Academy of Public Administration today released Stabilizing and Modernizing the National Finance...