NASA Issues More Words About Firings

Keith’s note: NASA PAO sent out a statement with more words than yesterday to talk about the probationary employee terminations – but they still do not have words to describe the impact of these firings: “NASA continues to work as quickly as possible to comply with the guidance and direction provided by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for the Deferred Resignation Program and probationary employees. The agency is in the process of validating hundreds of employees who responded to the deferred resignation offer before the deadline. Some probationary employees have taken the deferred resignation offer and those individuals have been, or will be, on administrative leave by the end of this week. NASA is working with OPM on exemptions for those in the probationary period in mission critical functions.”