Aug 31 2010

From The Space Library

RELEASE: 10-283

KEEGAN NAMED NASA'S ASSOCIATE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR

WASHINGTON -- NASA named Richard Keegan as the agency's associate deputy administrator on Thursday. He replaces Charles Scales, who has held the position since April 2007. Scales is retiring. The associate deputy administrator assists and supports NASA's administrator and deputy administrator during day-to-day agency operations, across the broad scope of institutional and workforce issues, and with contingency and continuity of operations planning. Keegan has served as deputy associate administrator of the Mission Support Directorate since its creation in April. For the prior four years he was director of NASA's Office of Program and Institutional Integration. In those roles, he served as the focal point for balancing priorities for mission directorates, mission support offices and agency field centers. "Rick's extensive experience within the agency and his expertise in diverse areas will help me and the rest of the NASA leadership team continue to make good progress on the agency's challenging objectives, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. I look forward to working closely with him during the exciting times ahead for NASA. Since coming to NASA Headquarters in 2002, Keegan has served in senior business management positions in mission directorate and mission support offices. He also worked in a variety of jobs during 21 years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA Headquarters and the Department of Energy. He has degrees in biological sciences and secondary education from the University of Maryland. Scales became NASA's associate deputy administrator in April 2007. Previously, he was the associate administrator for the Office of Institutions and Management. He managed operational and mission support activities across the agency. Part of his job was to ensure the agency's work force, infrastructure and facility capabilities worked together in support of NASA's long-range needs. "It is always hard to bid farewell to a dedicated and longtime member of the NASA community, Bolden said. Charles' calm demeanor, dedication and extensive knowledge of NASA helped to successfully guide the agency into the 21st century and our new direction for exploration. We'll really miss his passionate leadership and wish him well in retirement. Scales also served as deputy director in the Office of Center Operations at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Before that, he served as director of the Center Operations Directorate at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Scales began his NASA career as a cooperative education student at Marshall. He earned a bachelor's degree in general business from Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, and joined Marshall as a communications specialist.

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RELEASE: 10-239

NASA SOLAR SYSTEM EXHIBITION ARRIVES AT DULLES AIRPORT

WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority unveiled a photography exhibition at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., where ticketed airline travelers can view space science discoveries and relish the beauty and majesty of our solar system. "NASA presents BEYOND: Visions of Our Solar System, will be shown at Dulles' Gateway Gallery -- a pedestrian passageway located between the new AeroTrain C-gates station and Concourse C. Approximately 10,000 to 13,000 passengers transit the area daily. The exhibit, on display until March 31, 2011, features 46 backlit photographic images displayed in light boxes. "This vista will not only allow NASA to share its science activities with the public in a unique venue, but it will also allow them to see our future possible travel destinations, said James Green, director of the Planetary Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The images displayed include one of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which is a vast cyclonic storm system about two times the size of Earth, surrounded by other oval storms and banded clouds. Another shows Uranus with very faint rings, which may be made of countless fragments of water ice. There also are recent images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Cassini spacecraft. An exhibit of similar images is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The images were rendered by photographic artist Michael Benson. Washington Dulles International Airport is located 26 miles from downtown Washington. To view the exhibit images, visit: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov To find out more about NASA programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov

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CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-020

NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC.

WASHINGTON -- NASA will exercise the second of two one-year options on a five-year contract to Jacobs Technology Inc., of Tullahoma, Tenn., for test and evaluation support at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston manages the facility. This option is worth $54 million and brings the total contract amount to date to $270.5 million. The initial value of the contract was $162.5 million. The hybrid, cost-plus award fee, and indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract began May 1, 2006. This action extends the contract through April 30, 2011. Jacobs will provide services for performance of White Sands' primary mission, which includes materials and component testing, propulsion testing and depot activities.

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CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-021

NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO ENTERPRISE ADVISORY SERVICES

WASHINGTON -- NASA will exercise the second of two one-year options on a three-year, $182.6 million contract to Enterprise Advisory Services Inc., of Houston for facility operations and support at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston manages the facility. This option is worth $61.4 million and brings the total contract amount to date to $305.2 million. The hybrid, cost-plus award fee, fixed-price, and indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract began May 1, 2006. This action will extend it through April 30, 2011. Enterprise Advisory Services will provide non-mission services, including facility construction, environmental services and operations of the White Sands Space Harbor. The company also will support testing at White Sands to verify and improve spaceflight systems, capabilities and materials, and to ensure the safety of human spaceflight.

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