Jun 13 1978
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had appointed Robert Allnutt associate deputy administrator. Allnutt, currently acting assistant general counsel for legislation at DOE, had been deputy assistant administrator for the Energy Research and Development Administration, responsible for program areas including procurement, personnel, labor relations, and construction. Following a career both inside and outside the executive branch, Allnutt in 1970 had been appointed associate general counsel to the congressionally-established Commission on Government Procurement to improve government wide policies, procedures, and legislation. In 1973 Alnutt had been appointed staff director and counsel of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, with jurisdiction over federal aerospace research and development activities including all NASA programs.
NASA had named Isaac Gillam, IV, director of DFRC, where he had been acting director since the departure of David Scott in Nov. 1977; he had been deputy director there since Aug. 1977. Gillam, an associate fellow of the American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a senior member of the American Astronautical Society, had joined NASA Hq in 1963 as a resource-management specialist and had gone to DFRC in 1976 as director of Space Shuttle operations. Before joining NASA, Gillam had served in the USAF.
Lt. Gen. Duward Crow (USAF-ret.), assistant to the deputy administrator of NASA, had announced plans to leave NASA Sept. 1, 1978. Gen. Crow had begun NASA service in 1974 as assistant administrator for DOD and interagency affairs. In Oct. 1975 he had become associate deputy administrator of NASA, assuming his present duties following a reorganization in Nov. 1977. Crow had graduated in 1941 from the U.S. Military Academy and had served in the China-Burma-India theatre of operations. He had become comptroller of the USAF in 1969 and was assistant vice chief of staff from Oct. 1973 to July 1974 when he retired. He had received NASA's Distinguished Service Medal for his work on the NASA launch vehicles program. (NASA anno June 13/78)
KSC announced it had awarded Management Services, Inc., Huntsville, Ala. a $1 774 404 contract extension to operate the Spaceport's component-refurbishment and chemical-analysis laboratories. The 1-yr extension, a cost-plus-award-fee contract set-aside for small business, had brought the total value of the original contract to $4 536 339. The basic contract, awarded in 1976 for 3yr with annual renewals, had been negotiated competitively. (KSC Release 58-78)
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