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Bill Nelson Got An Ethics Waiver

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
August 30, 2021
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Bill Nelson Got An Ethics Waiver

Revealed: Biden’s ethics exceptions, Axios
“The details: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was excused from rules that would have barred him from working with Lockheed Martin, for which he was a paid advisory board member. Nelson assured ethics officials prior to his confirmation that he would only be participating in policy matters potentially affecting Lockheed, not any procurement or contracting decisions involving the company.”

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4 responses to “Bill Nelson Got An Ethics Waiver”

  1. Tony Rome says:
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    7gb of information was given to the US courts given the HLS contract case from Amazon. The delay to convert the data was one week. I can only suggest Bill cancel his contact with Lockheed until his term if over. The court can tell him to do this if neccesary, you think IT is the most outdated and the least used in NASA. Check the Procurement website, it still has the Griffin/Cook/Horowitz rocket listed(Ares). I remember the lockheed Orion contract of the time. It is still Lockheed.

    President George W. Bush had announced the Vision for Space Exploration in January 2004, and NASA under Sean O’Keefe had solicited plans for a Crew Exploration Vehicle from multiple bidders, with the plan for having two competing teams. These plans were discarded by incoming administrator Michael Griffin, and on April 29, 2005, NASA chartered the Exploration Systems Architecture Study to accomplish specific goals. Lockheed Orion still exists

    • Kirk says:
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      ???
      1. Amazon is not a party to the HLS contract case. Presumably you mean Blue Origin.
      2. The 7 GB of documents clogging up the HLS contract case were not submitted by Blue (or Amazon), but by the US government in response to the suit. (I’ve not found it explicitly stated anywhere, but presumably it is mostly NASA’s documentation of the HLS award decision process.)
      3. Bill Nelson resigned from his position on the Lockheed Martin advisory board prior to being sworn in as NASA Administrator. The ethics waiver is necessary because of that recent past employment, not any current relationship.

      • Tony Rome says:
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        Thanks for the clarification.
        Then (a) Bill should not advise on policy to lockheed. why the ethics waiver is needed is unknown.

        I’m sure the data exists, 7gb is not very much these days.
        My chromebook has 64gb SSD and is running linux.

        The defendent (NASA) requested the delay. it was granted by the judge

        It is not clear how to find the Judges orders. The 7gb of data came from the defendent. THe data set of files is not all one type of record. The DVD request is still open it appears.

        Why cannot the defendent follow the court rules and make the data set correct for submission is unknown. I have no idea what Blue gave the court. The defendent would have missed the deadline for submission and just dumped the data on the court and requested the delay.

        if you know who to locate the judges orders this would be helpfull. the records are not on the courts website

      • Tony Rome says:
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        I just applied for a US courts pacer account, this is how you get US court records. There is a fee. They will USPS mail me the token to login. You have to have a USA address.

        https://pacer.uscourts.gov/