Another NASA Business Event Few Will Ever Hear About

NASA Marshall to Host Small Business Alliance Meeting Sept. 19 at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville
“Officials from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will share the latest contract opportunities with representatives of large and small businesses, NASA prime contractors and subcontractors at a Marshall Small Business Alliance meeting Sept. 19 at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration, part of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. Registration will begin at 7 a.m., followed by the event from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.”
Keith’s note: Of course none of this will be streamed live or offered as a dial-in for the media. Its easy to do. A laptop is all that is needed – and the willingness on NASA’s part to do so. MSFC is where SLS is built. Its also the place where the human lunar lander will be managed. Lots opportunities – nationally – for small businesses to participate. Last week at JSC there was an event with the states comptroller about the economic impact of NASA in Texas. NASA made no effort for media or small businesses inable to attend or located in other states to listen in to the event. If you go to 2019 Deep Space Exploration Systems Supplier Locations and click on Alabama 106 suppliers are located, But that’s just Alabama. If you were to look at SLS program suppliers then there’s hundreds of suppliers across the U.S. contributing to SLS and/or Orion.
While the NASA MSFC home page just added a post (for an event starting in 36 hours) There is no mention of this event on the nasa.gov calendar, the NASA exploration systems page. Once again, as was the case with the JSC event, you would think that NASA would want the local, state, and national level economic impact of the SLS/Orion and Artemis programs to be as widely known as possible. NASA is going to need all of the support it can muster when it comes time to push for funding in Congress. Instead, all that NASA does is to post things at the last minute and make these events and discussions as difficult as possible to hear.
– JSC Is Not Very Excited About NASA’s Economic Impact on Texas (Update), earlier post
– JSC Goes Out Of Its Way To Hide Good News (Update), earlier post