David Radzanowski Is The Guy Who Made Things Work At NASA
Keith’s note: Last week NASA HQ was told by the incoming Trump administration that they wanted Chief Financial Officer David Radzanowski to stay on for while after the Inauguration to help with the transition. Then the Trump people suddenly changed their minds and Dave was no longer a NASA employee at noon on Friday. As such Dave did not have a proper chance to say farewell to folks at NASA. Before he was CFO he was the NASA Chief of Staff. Dave is one of those people in government that most folks never hear of. He just did his job diligently without any arm waving and did it exceptionally well. Dave was absolutely vital to how NASA worked – especially when it worked well. Its too bad he was not able to have a proper send off. You done good, Dave.
Radz was a voice of reason, especially calm and balanced, respectful of all. His “out of office” reply says gone sine the 20th. Sad to see him go.
I wonder how this came about. Has the CFO position again become a patronage position? When that happened in the G.W. Bush Administration, the appointee was not one of the best, to put it mildly. Dave R. was a superb CFO. Losing the benefits of his long institutional memory while the new leadership team gets up to speed is a very poor decision.