Ala. NASA center cutting up to 300 jobs, AP “Center spokesman Dominic Amatore told The Huntsville Times on Wednesday that a combination of factors led to the layoffs. He cites the lack of a federal budget for this year, continued funding by stop-gap measures and cuts in this year’s budget including nearly $300 million removed from the line-item that funds general operations at all of NASA’s centers.” NASA’s Marshall Space […]

Keith’s note: Word has it that the next round of layoffs at USA are coming on 7 January 2011. This will be a smaller personnel layoff than the subsequent 3 rounds of layoffs being planned in 2011. Employees have heard from management that there will probably be much larger layoffs in April, July, and September 2011. Upwards of 80% of the employees at JSC and KSC may well be gone […]

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off 45, AP “JPL spokesperson Veronical McGregor tells the Pasadena Star-News the layoffs will affect less than two percent of the total workforce of about 5,000 employees. McGregor says there was no single area or departments selected for workforce reductions. A JPL contractor tells the newspaper so far people have been let go in the acquisition, housekeeping and travel accounting departments.” Amid layoffs, NASA […]

Kosmas to Discuss the Future of Florida’s Space Industry at the Lou Frey 2010 Fall Symposium “Today, Monday, September 27, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) will discuss the future of Florida’s space industry at the Lou Frey 2010 Fall Symposium at the University of Central Florida. Kosmas will participate in a panel discussion entitled “The Space Program: Florida and Beyond” with Frank DiBello, President and […]

Is Utah emerging as rival to KSC?, Orlando Sentinel “Frank DiBello, the president of Space Florida, the state’s aerospace development body, is not pleased. “We don’t want to sacrifice Florida seed corn for an increased R&D role to be politically expedient and save jobs for Utah and other states,” DiBello told a Brevard County jobs-development meeting Saturday. “The Senate bill kills outright the promise of a real R&D opportunity for […]

Task force still working to save NASA’s Constellation program, avoid layoffs in Huntsville, Huntsville Times “Boeing has already announced that it will issue layoff notices to 100 Constellation rocket program employees on July 2. Battle said he has heard rumors that 700-800 local NASA contractors could eventually receive pink slips.” 700-800 contractor layoffs may hit Marshall Space Flight Center, WAFF “Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle says that there could be anywhere […]

Lockheed weighs layoffs, other cuts for Orion program”, Denver Post “Lockheed Martin officials have begun looking throughout the Orion crew-capsule program for savings that can be used to cover possible contract termination costs. Those savings could include layoffs of some of the 600 to 650 Lockheed employees in Colorado who are working on the NASA spacecraft.” Save the space program, HBJ readers say, Houston Business Journal “Houstonians are protective of […]