Storms Don't Stop Bean Counters

26 September 2004: CFO praises NASA financial system, FCW

“Gwendolyn Sykes, NASA’s chief financial officer, woke up at 7 a.m. Sept. 23 to hear the news of a tropical storm approaching Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where employees were trying to meet their three-day deadline for closing the fiscal year’s financial books. But rather than fretting about the weather, staffers simply moved to Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and carried on with their work, Sykes said.”