NASA Goddard Begins To Disassemble Itself
Keith’s note: this memo was sent to GSFC-DL-ALL from GSFC-Communications today at 2:12 PM. Subject: Transforming for the Future at Greenbelt and Wallops. It is important to note that the memo says “unlike previous large-scale Center reconfigurations, which occurred over a number of years, all planned moves will take place over the next several months and will be completed by March of 2026.” (Full text below)
Dear Colleagues: As you know, the Center has been working for many months now on various areas of transformation to best position the Center for the future. Last week, Agency leadership gave Goddard a green light to move forward with plans in one of these transformation areas – building occupancy and utilization at the Greenbelt and Wallops campuses.
Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 24, we will initiate a series of moves at both campuses that will reduce our footprint into fewer buildings. This plan encompasses both office and technical space. We will bring down overall operating costs while maintaining the critical facilities we need for our core capabilities of the future. Fortunately, in 2019 the Center’s 20-year Master Plan was approved by NASA leadership. Our transformation efforts will leverage this plan, which builds on our competitive strengths and delivers on our role in advancing the agency’s priorities.
Completion of this element of our overall Center transformation is an absolute priority for Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt and Wallops. Further, unlike previous large-scale Center reconfigurations, which occurred over a number of years, all planned moves will take place over the next several months and will be completed by March of 2026.
Details of the plans will come from your organizational Institutional Operations Council (IOC) member listed below, but we are sending this notice now because the first set of moves starts this week.
Building a robust future for Goddard and Wallops is going to require a commitment to adapt and change from all of us. That begins now, and Cynthia and I look forward to your commitment and support.
Raymond J. Rubilotta
Associate Center Director
IOC Members:
Code 100/1xx – Trish Ryan
Code 110 – Leah Hollander
Code 150 – Lisa Kelleher
Code 200 – Crystal Gayhart
Code 300 – Dave Reth
Code 400 – Maria Nowak
Code 500 – Matt Ritsko
Code 600 – Marlo Maddox
Code 700 – Sergio McKenzie
Code 800 – Dave Pierce
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Looks like a lot of belt tightening at agency. NASA will need to do more with less . I’m sure they will figure it out.
If they can’t tighten the belt enough they will lay off more people and close more facilities and cancel more missions until they get the belt tightened.
Correct. We do less with less.
Why would you pay SpaceX 4 or 5 times more than NASA gets to do the same thing. This devolving of the US government in favor of billionaires and their friends and family is criminal. The super duper dildo SpaceX Starship (what an original name) has only blown up SIX TIMES!! Do you think NASA would ever have been allowed to exist had their manned spacecraft blown up SIX times. I really want to be the first human sacrifice, I mean SpaceXtronaught on that POS ship. I’m sure it has the same level of technological expertise as any old Tesla self-drive system!!! Good job Dump!!
NASA administers contractors who do the work. SpaceX is a contractor. This has nothing to do with SpaceX and everything or do with moving people to where the work is being done.
It might be time to finally transition the entire NASA enterprise fully to a FFRDC model like JPL.
So they can say they’re laying off contractors, not government employees…