Personnel News: July 2007 Archives

Scolese to Succeed Geveden as NASA Associate Administrator, NASA

"NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden announced Wednesday that he will leave the agency at the end of July to join Teledyne Technologies as the president of Teledyne Brown Engineering, Huntsville, Ala. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has selected Christopher Scolese to succeed Geveden as associate administrator, the No. 3 position in the agency."

NASA Lab Workers Decry New Security Checks, Science (subscription)

"If you do not want to surrender the information to allow your background to be checked ... then you cannot work within the federal system," Griffin told JPL employees during a 4 June visit. That message hasn't gone down well among some JPL employees. "Signing this form amounts to inviting the government to go on an open fishing expedition," says planetary scientist Robert Nelson."