Keith’s note: The other day Jared Isacman channeled his earlier self in a student webinar sponsored by Hack Club. This summary was posted on LinkedIn by Ahmed Khaled.
Administrator Updates
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Putting Some Air Back Into NASA’s Tires
Keith’s note. 2025 was a bad year for NASA due to DOGE and lack of real leadership. Then Jared Issacman arrived to help NASA get its mojo back. Well, 2026 […]
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Jared Isaacman: Building Moon Base Faster: Lessons From a 90-Day Sprint
Keith’s note: this went out to the NASA Workforce today: “NASA Team: Building a permanent American presence on the Moon is a near-impossible task that only NASA is capable of […]
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Isaacman Visits With The Republican Study Committee
Keith’s note: Yesterday Jared Isaacman spoke to the Republican Study Committee. He said does not want more money. And of course Congress is already pushing back hard on the FY […]
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Changes To NASA’s Performance Ratings
Keith’s note: this memo : “Strengthening How We Recognize, Reward, Inspire NASAâs General Schedule (GS) Workforce” was sent out by Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson on 7 July 2026. FWIW while […]
![[LEFT] NASA employee Kuo-Chia âAliceâ Liu - RIGHT] NASA employee Charles Meilbye](https://i0.wp.com/nasawatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Award.png?resize=1200%2C715&ssl=1)
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NASA’s Flight Experience Awards
Keith’s note: Several more NASA employees were recognized as part of Jared Isaacmanâs Flight Experience Award program. The ride-along flight experience award program highlights NASAâs commitment to celebrating excellence across […]
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NASA Reboot Memo From Jared Isaacman (long)
Keith’s note: Here it is: Jared Isaacman’s Magnum Opus 2.0 on how to reorganize and reboot NASA. Typos are mine not Jared’s. Oh yes – the picture, well … early […]
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NASA Will Compete JPL’s Management Contract
Keith’s note: NASA just issued this press release: “NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agencyâs federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) […]
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NASA Announces Massive Agency Realignment
Keith’s note: NASA Just issued this: “NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to […]
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Matt Anderson Is The New NASA Deputy Administrator
Keith’s note: the following was sent by NASA Administrator Isaacman to the NASA work force up on the swearing in of Matt Anderson to be NASA Deputy Administrator: “NASA Team, […]