Keith’s note: according to the NASA OIG report Evaluation of NASAâs Information Security Program under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act for Fiscal Year 2025: “The Federal Information Security Modernization […]
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NASA Center for Climate Simulation Mass Storage System Decommission
Keith’s note: the following was sent out to users of the NCCS MSS – NASA Center for Climate Simulation MSS (Mass Storage System) managed out of NASA Goddard: (more below)
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Update By NASA’s Chief Information Officer
OCIO Team, I wanted to provide an update on our current situation and related planning efforts as we navigate significant organizational changes, first starting with my plans. As many of […]
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NASA’s Impending Data Diaspora
Keith’s note: with regard to commercial solutions to missions being canceled, data archiving etc. – Nice idea. But actually this is a disaster in the making. With the rush to […]
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Mike Witt Is Leaving NASA
Keith’s note: Mike Witt, NASAâs Senior Agency Information Security Officer (SAISO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Cybersecurity and Privacy is leaving the agency shortly. Best wishes, Mike.
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Yet Another Report On How Broken NASA IT Security Is
Keith’s note: here we go again. A new GAO report: Cybersecurity: NASA Needs to Fully Implement Risk Management is out. Yawn. Once a year GAO, NASA OIG, or some other […]
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Team Astrobiology At NASA Has Given Up
Keith’s note: Here we go again. With all the things being cut at NASA, you’d think that the NASA Astrobiology team would at least try and stand up and show […]
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Congress Wants Answers: Unqualified DOGE Personnel Access To NASA IT
Keith’s note: According to this press release “Committee Leaders Demand Answers from NASA on DOGE Access After the Agency Refuses to Comply with Investigation“ specific instances of DOGE employees (who […]
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NASAWatch Is Now On Bluesky
Keith’s note: I now have an up-to-date NASAWatch account on Bluesky at @nasawatch.bsky.com in addition to @nasawatch on Twitter.
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Detailed Look At Changes to NASA’s NODIS
Keith’s note: In January I noted that NASA had taken the NASA Online Directives Information System (NODIS) offline – so I posted an archive version of what was there before […]