Apr 6 2010
From The Space Library
RELEASE: 10-041
NASA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF GEORGE M. LOW AWARD FOR QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE
WASHINGTON -- NASA presented its highest honor for quality and performance, the George M. Low Award, to two companies that share a commitment to teamwork, safety, customer service, technical and managerial excellence. The Low award demonstrates the agency's commitment to promote excellence and continual improvement by challenging NASA's contractor community to be a global benchmark of quality management practices. The 2009 awards were presented Wednesday, Feb. 10, at NASA's seventh annual Project Management Challenge in Galveston, Texas, to: United Space Alliance, or USA, of Houston. USA provides ground operations, vehicle processing and logistics at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.; delivers specialty engineering and technical services at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.; and designs and plans missions, trains astronauts, develops and verifies software, and executes mission operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. USA received the award in the large business service category. Applied Geo Technologies, or AGT, of Choctaw, Miss. Tribally owned AGT is a small, disadvantaged provider of aerospace and defense services. It provides scientific, laboratory and geographic analysis services; maintains measurement standards; and calibrates and repairs instrumentation at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. AGT received the award in the small business service category. The award was established in 1985 as NASA's Excellence Award for Quality and Productivity. It was renamed in 1990 in memory of George M. Low, an outstanding leader during his 27-year tenure at the agency. Low was NASA's deputy administrator from 1969 to1976 and a leader in the early development of space programs.
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RELEASE: 10-048
RESTRUCTURED NASA ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETS TO FORMULATE AGENCY GUIDANCE
WASHINGTON -- The newly restructured NASA Advisory Council recently concluded its second meeting, held Feb. 18-19, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This was the first council meeting including all of the committee chairs and other appointed members, completing the restructuring process NASA Administrator Charles Bolden began in fall 2009 The council provides advice and recommendations to the NASA administrator about agency programs, policies, plans, financial controls and other matters related to the agency's responsibilities. "I'm very excited about the council's new structure, said NASA Advisory Council Chairman Kenneth M. Ford. I have the greatest confidence that the committees will provide the full council with the best possible recommendations for Administrator Bolden's consideration. The council and its nine committees meet on a quarterly basis throughout the year in public and fact-finding sessions. The committees are: Aeronautics Committee: Marion Blakey, chair Audit, Finance and Analysis Committee: Robert M. Hanisee, chair Commercial Space Committee: Brett Alexander, chair Education and Public Outreach Committee: Miles O'Brien, chair Exploration Committee: Richard Kohrs, chair Information Technology Infrastructure Committee: retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Albert Edmonds, chair Science Committee: Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., chair Space Operations Committee: retired Air Force Col. Eileen M. Collins, chair Technology and Innovation Committee: Esther Dyson, chair Ex-Officio Members: Charles Kennel, chair, Space Studies Board, National Academies, and Raymond Colladay, chair, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, National Academies To learn more about the NASA Advisory Council and its committees, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nac
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