—- Keith’s note: I have annotated Jared Isaacman’s new directive “Workforce Directive: Restoring NASA’s Core Competencies“ with some of my thoughts. This directive does bear a certain similarity to a […]
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Workforce Directive: Restoring NASA’s Core Competencies
Keith’s note: On Friday NASA distributed memo to the entire workforce titled “Workforce Directive: Restoring NASA’s Core Competencies“ accompanied with a video that was posted on social media. (full text […]
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Isaacman’s Prime Directive: Recognize, Reward, Inspire
Keith’s note: this directive: “Workforce Directive: Recognize, Reward, Inspire” was sent out to all of NASA on 14 January 2026: “Achieving NASA’s world-changing mission requires the best from a talented, […]
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Matthew Anderson V 2.0
Keith’s note: According to this White House release a bunch of renominations of people who did not get their confirmation process completed before the end of 2025 have been re-nominated […]
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NASAWatch on CNN: Crew 11 And Isaacman
Keith’s note: I was on CNN This morning talking about the return of crew 11 and NASA’s new Administrator. [Audio]
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Senior Job Openings At NASA?
Keith’s note: Last year the White House nominated Matt Anderson to be Deputy NASA Administrator and Greg Autry to be NASA CFO (twice in 2020 & 2025). And of course […]
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Get Some Vitamin-G For Supporting NASA
Keith’s note: Jared Isaacman took several Trump family members for a plane ride the other day. Before you start to wag your fingers at him for this – understand that […]
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Brian Hughes Has Left NASA
Keith’s note: according to Brian Hughes exits NASA, teases ‘new chapter’ “Brian Hughes, who most recently has served as Chief of Staff at NASA, says he’s exiting that role and […]
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NASAWatch On i24 In Israel: Jared Isaacman
Keith’s note: I was just on i24 TV in Israel talking with Ellie Hochenberg (who opened with (“there is a starman waiting in the skies and he has the keys […]