Keith’s note: If you have been through a typical NASA design review then you know that words have meaning. As noted the other day (see NASA Email: Upcoming Second Formal […]
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Where Is The Part-time NASA Administrator?
Keith’s note: Has anyone heard NASA’s part-time leader Sean Duffy recently reach out, motivate his NASA workforce, seek out shutdown, furlough, RIF, layoff, concerns – or otherwise show visible, enduring […]
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NASA Email: Upcoming Second Formal Furlough Notice
Keith’s Update: see “Is NASA Pulling Back On Retroactive Pay?“ Keith’s note: the following email “Shutdown furlough: Upcoming second formal furlough notice and additional information” was sent to everyone at […]
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Wallops Shutdown Memo
Keith’s note: Employees at NASA Wallops Flight Facility under the Range Operations Contract II (ROC II) received the below email from contract management late Wednesday afternoon. Note: Charge codes, CUI […]
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NASA Memo: Orderly Shutdown Activities
Keith’s note: Here’s how you take a space agency that has visited every planet in our star system, touched our sun, sent humans to another world, and ventured into interstellar […]
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Confusing NASA Furlough Letters
Keith’s note: Some NASA employees are getting furlough letters that say: “Your Furlough Status: âYou are needed to fulfill excepted activities on an as-needed basis or on-call basis. Therefore, you […]
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NASA Continuity of Appropriations Plan
Keith’s note: NASA posted NASA Continuity of Appropriations Plan (PDF) effective 29 September 2025 saying “Pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-11, Section 124, NASA is […]
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NASA Furlough Instructions Issued
Keith’s note: this memo “Notification to all employees on furlough status” was issued across NASA to all employees. Full memo below
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NASA Shutdown Is Underway
Statement by the President “NASA will shut down almost entirely, but Mission Control will remain open to support the astronauts serving on the Space Station.” NASA Planning for a Lapse […]
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Appropriations Lapse Could Result in NASA Furloughs
NASA Internal Memo: Planning for Potential Lapse in Appropriations “However, prudent management requires that we be prepared for all contingencies, including the possibility that a lapse could occur at the […]