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 Jared Isaacman was nominated twice. So … not a smooth year for NASA nominees. Since their nominations we’ve heard nothing about Autry or Anderson’s status. Yesterday Autry tweeted “On both occasions my nomination expired at year end, without a Senate vote. I have decided not to pursue confirmation again and have requested that I not be renominated.” If you look at it says “01/03/2026 Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.” If you look at the status of Anderson’s nomination it also says the same thing. Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 specifies that “Nominations that have been neither confirmed nor rejected by the Senate at the time the Senate adjourns sine die or for a period of more than 30 days are returned to the President”. So it looks like there will need to be a new CFO nominee. Matt Anderson certainly seems to be chipper and happily ready to on-board at NASA – so I guess maybe he is still the Administration’s choice. Or Jared Isaacman could just use NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya as his de-facto deputy. Dan Goldin did this throughout his tenure. I would ask NASA Public Affairs – but they ignore me these days.