Personnel Announcements

I wonder if the "organizational changes" might include closing of center(s)? It could be a chance to "get back at" the states that did not support the administration in the '08 presidential elections.

So in order to combat the entrenched culture of bureaucracy within the agency Bolden creates two now oversight positions? I think the last thing NASA needs is more management and project oversight.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

NASA's chance to slim down and become more efficient, this isn't going to help.

And I agree, we do need to re-align some centers, but that is a pipe dream.

NASA is no longer the National Aeronautical and Space Administration. By all accounts to include bloggers, posters, and the main stream media; NASA is nothing more than a glorified bureaucratic jobs program.

The goal isn't saving jobs, it is about developing the technologies needed to do great, and difficult, things.

VR
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Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida looses 100,000 jobs.
The Space Shuttles are for sale.
Michoud in New Orleans, where the external tanks are built, is for rent.
The convoluted hindsight of intellectuals that say the Shuttle is an obsolete piece of junk fail to realize that it is the most successful manned space vehicle on earth.
How long before some corporation builds a business plan around LEO with the Shuttle and reaps huge profits on taxpayers investment.
SCUD missiles with a capsule on top are not progress. More administrators at NASA is not science and technology.

The addition of a couple of technical advisors is not a significant increase in bureaucracy, and probably a good thing since Bolden is not deep technically.
The new Mission Support Directorate is worrisome, and seemed at odds with Bolden's words on efficiency... although if it results in a more systematic approach to facilities maintenance and management that might be a good result.