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LaRC Needs Some Better Acronyms

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
August 1, 2014
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NASA LaRC Internal Memo: Notes from the Center Leadership Council’s Recent Retreat
“We are counting on our Product Units (PUDs) and their business development managers (BDMs) to identify and pursue opportunities for the Center make even more significant contributions to mission directorate programs and projects in collaboration with the other NASA Centers, government agencies, academia and industry. We are counting on our seven Product Line Leads (PLLs) to identify integrated, systems level, state-of-the-art multidisciplinary solutions to those Agency needs. We are counting on our Core Resource Units (CRUDs) to acquire, develop and nurture the capabilities (skills, facilities and computational tools) required to develop and implement those solutions.”

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3 responses to “LaRC Needs Some Better Acronyms”

  1. Rich_Palermo says:
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    No synergy?

    Universities, National Labs, FFRDCs, Industry,… now one homogenized morass of MBA doublespeak.

  2. Wendy Yang says:
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    They need more Fun with Acronyms

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/

    NASA got a seizable entry in the real life section.

  3. Steven Rappolee says:
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    so PUD and BDM and PLL produces CRUD ?