Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard’s Outlook Supply Chain 2012 October 16, 2012
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• NASA’s first Space Flight Center (established 1959)
• We TRANSFORM Human Understanding of Earth and Space
• Largest Collection of Scientists & Engineers in the U.S.
• Nearly 300 successful missions including the World’s First Weather Satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope
• 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics [Big Bang/Cosmic Background]
• Hubble Supported 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
• WMAP Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Prize for Cosmology
2 GSFC’s Contribu ons to a Diverse Mission Por olio QuikSCAT Wind Voyager EO-1 Stereo ERBS ACRIMSAT RHESSI TOMS TRMM Geotail SOHO Aqua ICESat
TIMED SAMPEX Landsat 7 TRACE THEMIS TOPEX CALIPSO
Terra ACE GRACE
SORCE Cluster POES SDO IMAGE AIM Aura FAST GOES Polar GPM
MMS Solar-B
IBEX NPP Aquarius CloudSat TDRSS LDCM Osiris-Rex (Sample Return) RBSP WMAP TWINS Cassini (Instrument)
NuSTAR JWST HST GALEX New Horizons WISE
Messenger Spitzer SWAS Astro-H
RXTE Galileo IUE Juno MAVEN Integral
Pioneer EUVE
FUSE COBE Mars Science Swift Laboratory Fermi Compton GRO LADEE LRO Our Facili es
• GSFC Greenbelt, Maryland • GSFC Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia • IV&V Facility, West Virginia • Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York Wallops Flight Facility • Ground Stations at White Sands Complex, New Mexico
White Sands Complex
Greenbelt
Goddard Institute for Independent Verification and Space Studies Validation Facility 4 NASA GSFC Leadership Team
Chris Scolese Director
Kelly Farrell, Chief of Staff
Rick Obenschain, Christyl Johnson, Colleen Hartman, Nancy Abell, Deputy Director Deputy Director Deputy Director for Associate Director For Technology and Science, Operations and Research Investments Program Performance
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Julie Baker, Ray Rubilotta, Judy Bruner, George Morrow, Dennis Andrucyk, Nick White, Adrian Gardner, Ron Brade, Bill Wrobel, Chief Financial (Acting) Director, Director, Director, Director, Director, Director, Director, Officer Director, Office of Flight Projects Applied Engineering Sciences and Information Office of Suborbital and Management Systems Safety Directorate and Technology Exploration Technology and Human Capital Special Orbital Operations and Mission Directorate Directorate Communications Management Projects Directorate Assurance Directorate and WFF
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* Reports directly to NASA Phillina Tookes Dan Krieger, Veronica Hill, Mark Hess, Andrew Falcon, Bob Gabrys, Greg Blaney, Tom Paprocki, (Acting) Special Assistant Chief, Chief, Chief Director, Director, Director, Headquarters Government and for Diversity Equal Opportunity Office of Counsel Office of Education Independent Office of Community Relations Programs Office Communications Programs Verification and Procurement Manager Validation Facility WV Our People
Technicians/Other 6% Clerical 5%
Professional/ Administrative Scientists & 28% Engineers 61%
GSFC Workforce
Total Civil Servants: 3,400 Total Contractors : 6,400
Total Workforce: 9,800
6 6 Our Lines of Business
Cross Cu ng Earth Science Technology and Capabili es Suborbital Pla orms
Astrophysics Planetary & Lunar Human Explora on Science & Opera ons Communica ons & Naviga on Recent Accomplishments
Radiation Belt Storm Probes Suomi NPP – Revisiting the Blue Sample Analysis at Mars Marble Instrument on MSL
Operation Icebridge Robotic Refueling Mission on STS-135 Upcoming Milestones
LDCM Launch HS3 February 2013 Antares test launch TDRS K Launch Fall from Wallops December 2012 2012 2012
Numerous Suborbital MAVEN Launch GPM Launch Missions November 2013 February 2014 MMS Launch LADEE Launch October 2014 Summer 2013 James Webb Space Telescope Antares at Wallops NOAA Reimbursable Projects
JPSS December 2016
GOES-R October DSCOVR 2015 June 2014
Technology Development Technology Utilization E.g., Crycoolers, CdZnTd Detectors, Terra Wave-Front Sensing and Control, etc. HST JWST Flagship Missions ICE Sat GLAST Technology Transfer E.g., Cryocoolers, Lasik, Advanced Electronics and Instrumentation, Modeling and SWIFT Astro-H Simulation, etc Small & Medium-Class Missions E.g., SMEX, Explorers, Midex, Earth Venture, etc CommSats Technology Transfer Industry E.g., Commercial CommSats, Electronics Industry, Automotive It is difficult to say what is impossible…
for the dream of YESTERDAY is the hope of TODAY and the reality of TOMORROW.
- Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)