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NATIONAL AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 603 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 300 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20546 Phone, 202–358–1000

Administrator DANIEL S. GOLDIN Deputy Administrator J.R. DAILEY, Acting Associate Deputy Administrator J.R. DAILEY Associate Deputy Administrator (Technical) MICHAEL I. MOTT Chief Scientist FRANCE A. CORDOVA Chief Engineer DAVID H. MOBLEY Chief Information Officer JOHN C. LYNN NASA Chief Financial Officer ARNOLD H. HOLTZ Comptroller MALCOLM L. PETERSON Deputy Chief Financial Officer KENNETH J. WINTER Director, Systems and Cost Analysis DAVID J. PINE Division Director, Financial Management Division (VACANCY) Director, Resource Analysis Division PATRICIA A. NASH Chief, Budget Operations Office BOBBY C. BALES Associate Administrator for Policy and Plans ALAN M. LADWIG Director for Special Projects and Staff Director, ANNE L. ACCOLA NASA Advisory Council Associate Administrator for Legislative Affairs JEFFREY LAWRENCE Deputy Associate Administrator LYNN W. HENNINGER Deputy Associate Administrator (Programs) MARY D. KERWIN Deputy Associate Administrator (Policy) PHYLLIS A. LOVE Director, Congressional Liaison Division MARY D. KERWIN, Acting Director, Legislation Division MICHAEL A. MAGUIRE Director, Congressional Inquiries Division HELEN ROTHMAN Director, Outreach Division PHYLLIS A. LOVE, Acting Associate Administrator for Life and HARRY C. HOLLOWAY Microgravity Sciences and Applications Deputy Associate Administrator (Operations ARNAULD E. NICOGOSSIAN and Space Flight) Deputy Associate Administrator (Programs) (VACANCY) Director, Policy and Program Management ARNAULD E. NICOGOSSIAN, Acting Director, Life and Biomedical Sciences JOAN VERNIKOS and Applications Division Director, Microgravity Sciences and ROBERT C. RHOME Applications Division Director, Flight Systems Division EDWARD A. REEVES Director, Aerospace Medicine and EARL W. FERGUSION, Acting Occupational Health Division Associate Administrator for Mission to Planet CHARLES F. KENNEL Earth Deputy Associate Administrator (Programs) WILLIAM F. TOWNSEND Deputy Associate Administrator MICHAEL B. MANN (Management) Assistant Associate Administrator (External LISA R. SHAFFER, Acting Coordination) Assistant Associate Administrator (Program DOUGLAS R. NORTON Integration) 604 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Director, Flight Systems Division MICHAEL R. LUTHER Director, Operations, Data and DIXON M. BUTLER Information Systems Division Director, Science Division ROBERT C. HARRISS Associate Administrator for Space Science WESLEY T. HUNTRESS Deputy Associate Administrator A.V. DIAZ Assistant Associate Administrator MARY E. KICZA Cassini Program Director EARLE K. HUCKINS Director, Solar System Exploration JURGEN RAHE Division Director, Astrophysics Division DANIEL W. WEEDMAN Director, Space Physics Division GEORGE L. WITHBROE Associate Administrator for Continual LAWRENCE J. ROSS, Acting Improvement Director, Internal Total Quality JOSEPH MCELWEE Management Division Director, Benchmarking and External JOHN W. GAFF Programs Division General Counsel EDWARD A. FRANKLE Deputy General Counsel GEORGE E. REESE Associate General Counsel (General Law) ROBERT M. STEPHENS Associate General Counsel (Contracts) DAVID P. FORBES Associate General Counsel (Intellectual JOHN G. MANNIX Property) Associate General Counsel (Commercial) JUNE W. EDWARDS Associate Administrator for Procurement DEIDRE A. LEE Deputy Associate Administrator THOMAS S. LUEDTKE Director, Program Operations Division A. FOSTER FOURNIER Director, Acquisition Liaison Division W. LEE EVEY Director, Analysis Division ROGER P. WILSON, Acting Director, Contract Management Division ANNE C. GUENTHER Director, Headquarters Acquisition LAURA D. LAYTON Division Associate Administrator for Small and RALPH C. THOMAS III Disadvantaged Business Utilization Associate Administrator for Space Access and JOHN E. MANSFIELD Technology Deputy Associate Administrator GREGORY M. RECK Director, Flight Integration Office JACK LEVINE Director, Launch Vehicles Office CHARLES R. GUNN Director, Technology Transfer and ROBERT L. NORWOOD Commercial Development Division Director, Spacecraft Systems Division SAMUEL L. VENNERI Director, Space Processing Division EDWARD A. GABRIS Director, Space Transportation Division GARY PAYTON Director, Management Operations MARTIN STEIN Division Senior Executive for Advanced Concept IVAN BEKEY Division Associate Administrator for Public Affairs LAURIE BOEDER Deputy Associate Administrator GEOFFREY H. VINCENT Deputy Associate Administrator (New BRUCE HENDERSON Initiatives) Director, Program Management Division WALTER A. MAULL, Acting Director, Media Services Division JAMES W. MCCULLA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 605

Director, Public Services Division PAULA CLEGGETT-HALEIM, Acting Director, Television Development Division THOMAS J. BENTSEN, Acting Associate Administrator for Space Flight J. WAYNE LITTLES Deputy Associate Administrator RICHARD J. WISNIEWSKI Deputy Associate Administrator (Space WILBUR C. TRAFTON Station Program) Deputy Associate Administrator (Space BRYON D. O’CONNOR Shuttle) Associate Administrator for Management BENITA A. COOPER Systems and Facilities Deputy Associate Administrator MICHAEL D. CHRISTENSEN Director, Environmental Management ROBERT E. HAMMOND Division Director, Information Resources RUSSELL S. RICE Management Division Director, Facilities Engineering Division WILLIAM W. BRUBAKER Director, Security, Logistics and Industrial JEFFREY E. SUTTON Relations Division Director, Headquarters Operations Division (VACANCY) Director, Resources and Management TIMOTHY M. SULLIVAN Controls Office Director, Aircraft Management Office JAMES T. BODDIE, JR. Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission FREDERICK D. GREGORY Assurance Deputy Associate Administrator MICHAEL A. GREENFIELD Director, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel FRANK L. MANNING Director, Engineering and Quality DANIEL R. MULVILLE Management Division Director, Resources Management Office DALE E. MOORE Director, Space Flight Safety and Mission RICHARD U. PERRY Assurance Division Director, Payloads and Aeronautics J. CHARLES SAWYER, JR., Acting Division Director, Safety and Risk Management JAMES D. LLOYD Division Director, Software Independent CHARLES W. MERTZ Verification Facility Associate Administrator for Aeronautics ROBERT E. WHITEHEAD, Acting Deputy Associate Administrator ROBERT E. WHITEHEAD Deputy Associate Administrator RICHARD A. REEVES (Management) Chief Engineer (VACANCY) Director, Institutions Division (VACANCY) Director, Resources and Management GLENN C. FULLER Office Director, Strategy and Policy Office JAY M. HENN Director, High Performance Computing LEE B. HOLCOMB and Communications Office Director, High Speed Research Division LOUIS J. WILLIAMS Director, Subsonic Transportation Division RAY V. HOOD, Acting Director, High Performance Aircraft and RICHARD S. CHRISTIANSEN, Acting Flight Projects Division Director, Critical Technologies Division RICHARD S. CHRISTIANSEN, Acting Associate Administrator for Space CHARLES T. FORCE Communications 606 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Deputy Associate Administrator (VACANCY) Director, Program Integration Division DAVID W. HARRIS Director, Administration and Resources RONALD R. DAPICE Management Division Director, Communications and Data Systems CHARLES T. FORCE, Acting Division Director, Ground Networks Division ROBERT M. HORNSTEIN Director, Division WILSON LUNDY Associate Administrator for Human Resources SPENCE M. ARMSTRONG and Education Director, Education Division FRANKLIN C. OWENS Director, Management Systems Division STANLEY S. KASK, JR. Director, National Service Center TYRONE C. TAYLOR Director, Personnel Division VICKI A. NOVAK Director, Training and Development CARSON K. EOYANG Division Associate Administrator for Equal Opportunity YVONNE B. FREEMAN Programs Deputy Associate Administrator (VACANCY) Director, Diversity Policy and Strategic JAMES A. WESTBROOKS Planning Division Director, Discrimination Complaints OCEOLA S. HALL Division Director, Minority University Research and BETTIE L. WHITE Education Division Inspector General (VACANCY) Deputy Inspector General LEWIS D. RINKER Assistant Inspector General for Auditing (VACANCY) Assistant Inspector General for (VACANCY) Investigations Assistant Inspector General for (VACANCY) Management Associate Administrator for External Relations JOHN D. SHUMACHER, Acting Deputy Associate Administrator JOHN D. SHUMACHER Director, Defense Affairs Division CONRAD O. FORSYTHE Director, Management Support Office SHIRLEY A. PEREZ Director, International Relations Division BETH A. MASTERS Director, Space Flight Division LYNN F.H. CLINE Director, Special Studies Division SYLVIA K. KRAEMER Director, Mission to Planet Earth Division LISA R. SHAFFER NASA Centers Director, KEN K. MUNECHIKA Director, George C. Marshall Space Flight G. PORTER BRIDWELL Center Director, Goddard Space Flight Center JOHN M. KLINEBERG Manager, NASA Management Office, Jet KURT LINDSTROM Propulsion Laboratory Director, John F. JAY F. HONEYCUTT Director, PAUL F. HOLLOWAY Director, Lewis Research Center DONALD J. CAMPBELL Director, Lyndon B. CAROLYN HUNTOON NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 607

Director, John C. ROY S. ESTESS Director, Dryden Flight Research Center KENNETH J. SZALAI [For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 14, Part 1201]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration conducts research for the solution of problems of flight within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere and develops, constructs, tests, and operates aeronautical and space vehicles. It conducts activities required for the exploration of space with manned and unmanned vehicles and arranges for the most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the with other nations engaged in aeronautical and space activities for peaceful purposes.

The National Aeronautics and Space The Office seeks to promote economic Administration was established by the growth and security and to enhance U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Act of competitiveness through safe, superior, 1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2451 et and environmentally compatible U.S. seq.). civil and military aircraft, and through a safe, efficient national aviation system. In NASA Headquarters addition, the Office is responsible for Planning, coordinating, and controlling managing the Ames, Dryden Flight, Administration programs are vested in Langley, and Lewis Research Centers. Headquarters. Directors of NASA centers For further information, call 202–358–2693. are responsible for the execution of agency programs, largely through Space Access and Technology The contracts with research, development, Office of Space Access and Technology and manufacturing enterprises. A broad pioneers innovative space technologies range of research and development and proactively transfers those activities are conducted in NASA Centers technologies to aerospace and by Government-employed scientists, nonaerospace applications. This Office is engineers, and technicians to evaluate responsible for planning and assessing new concepts and phenomena and to technology development requirements maintain the competence required to and providing management and manage contracts with private executive leadership for activities across enterprises. the Agency which satisfy these Planning, directing, and managing requirements; and for developing research and development programs are partnerships with industry, academia, the responsibility of seven program and other Government agencies. offices, all of which report to and For further information, call 202–358–4566. receive overall guidance and direction from the Administrator. The overall Life and Microgravity Sciences and planning and direction of institutional Applications The Office of Life and operations at NASA Centers and Microgravity Sciences and Applications management of agencywide institutional is responsible for NASA’s programs resources are the responsibility of the concerned with life and microgravity appropriate Institutional Associate sciences and their possible commercial Administrator under the overall guidance applications, life support research and and direction of the Administrator. technologies, space human factors, Aeronautics The Office of Aeronautics occupational health issues, and is responsible for conducting programs aerospace medicine. The Office provides that pioneer the identification, planning, development, integration, and development, verification, transfer, operations support for science payloads application, and commercialization of on the , free flyers, space high-payoff aeronautics technologies. station, and other advanced carriers. The 608 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL EXTERNAL LABORATORY RELATIONS SMALL AND JET PROPULSION * PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC SPACE SCIENCE SPACE DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION GENERAL INSPECTOR CONTINUAL PROGRAMS DRYDEN FLIGHT APPLICATIONS AERONAUTICS IMPROVEMENT SCIENCES AND SCIENCES PROCUREMENT RESEARCH CENTER AMES RESEARCH CENTER LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER EQUAL OPPORTUNITY LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER LIFE AND MICROGRAVITY LIFE CENTERS STAFF OFFICES STAFF OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR PROGRAM OFFICES SPACE GENERAL COUNSEL ASSURANCE SPACE CENTER SPACE CENTER SPACE CENTER JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE FLIGHT SPACE JOHN F. KENNEDY AND EDUCATION LYNDON B. JOHNSON GEORGE C. MARSHALL COMMUNICATIONS SPACE FLIGHT CENTER HUMAN RESOURCES SAFETY AND MISSION COUNCIL NATIONALADMINISTRATION AND SPACE AERONAUTICS NASA ADVISORY ADVISORY PANEL AEROSPACE SAFETY AEROSPACE AFFAIRS OFFICER FACILITIES MISSION TO LEGISLATIVE FLIGHT CENTER GODDARD SPACE SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT PLANET EARTH SPACE ACCESS SPACE CHIEF FINANCIAL AND TECHNOLOGY JPL is a contractor-operated facility. * PLANS POLICY AND NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 609

Office also establishes all requirements Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and standards for design, development, Johnson Space Flight Center, and the and operation of human space flight Stennis Space Center. systems and facilities. In further executing its responsibilities, the Office plans, directs, and executes For further information, call 202–358–2530. the development, acquisition, testing, Mission to Planet Earth The Office of and operation of all elements of the Mission to Planet Earth conducts NASA’s ; plans, directs, programs that study global climate and manages execution of prelaunch, change and integrated functioning of the launch, flight landing, post-flight Earth as a system. This includes operations, and payload assignments; developing and managing remote maintains and upgrades the design of sensing and instruments, aircraft ground and flight systems throughout the and ground measurements and research, operational period; procures recurring as well as data and information systems system hardware; manages Spacelab needed to support the objectives of the development, procurement, and U.S. Global Change Research Program. operations; develops and implements The Office also has institutional necessary policy with other government management responsibility for the and commercial users of the space Goddard Space Flight Center and shuttle; and coordinates all associated maintains contact with the National research. OSF is working with the Academy of Sciences and other science Russian Space Agency to plan and advisory and coordinating boards and execute a series of joint missions that committees. will involve flying cosmonauts aboard the space shuttle and aboard For further information, call 202–358–1770. the Mir space station. In 1995, a U.S. Space Science The Office of Space was launched aboard a Science is responsible for conducting Russian rocket to Mir for a 90-day stay programs and research designed to aboard the space station, followed by a understand the origin, evolution, and shuttle docking mission to Mir to structure of the universe and the solar exchange crew members. This mission system. The Office also manages NASA’s will be the first of up to seven joint activities at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory missions, precursors to assembly and and maintains contacts with the Space utilization of the international space Studies Board of the National Academy station. of Sciences and with other science NASA is leading an international effort advisory boards and committees. to build and deploy a permanently manned space station into Earth’s orbit. For further information, call 202–358–1409. Elements of the space station will be Space Flight The Office of Space Flight provided by Canada, Japan, Italy, Russia, (OSF) is NASA’s principal organization and nine European nations represented for space flight operations and utilization by the European Space Agency. The involving human space flight. It consists space station will be a permanent of the following programmatic missions: outpost in space where humans will live flight to and from space for people and and work productively for extended cargo, operating habitable space periods of time. It will provide an facilities, and managing the utilization of advanced research laboratory to explore these facilities in support of NASA’s space and employ its resources, as well space missions, such as space missions as the opportunity to learn to build, from and to Earth. OSF operates the operate, and maintain systems in space. space shuttle and the Spacelab and is U.S. elements of the space station will currently developing the U.S. segment of be launched aboard the space shuttle the international space station. The and assembled in orbit. The first flight is Office is also responsible for institutional scheduled for 1997. management of the Kennedy Space For further information, call 202–358–2015. 610 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Space Communications The Office of and experiment development and flight Space Communications is responsible for operations. It develops and operates meeting requirements critical to NASA’s tracking and data acquisition systems aeronautics and space flight missions. and conducts supporting mission They include spacecraft operations and operations. It also develops and operates control centers, ground and space Spacelab payloads; space physics communications, data acquisition and research programs; Earth science and processing, flight dynamics and applications programs; life science trajectory analyses, spacecraft tracking, programs; information systems and applied research and development technology; sounding rockets and of new technology. The Space Network sounding rocket payloads; launch with its constellation of Tracking and vehicles; balloons and balloon Data Relay Satellites, Deep Space experiments; Network, Spaceflight Tracking and Data experiments; and sensors for Network, and various other facilities environmental monitoring and ocean currently provide for the requirements dynamics. for NASA’s space missions. A global Jet Propulsion Laboratory The communications system links tracking Laboratory, which is operated under sites, control centers, and data contract by the Institute of processing facilities that provide real- Technology in Pasadena, CA, develops time data processing for mission control, spacecraft and space sensors and orbit and attitude determination, and conducts mission operations and ground- routine processing of telemetry data for based research in support of solar system space missions. exploration, Earth science and For further information, call 202–358–4758. applications, Earth and ocean dynamics, space physics and astronomy, and life science and information systems NASA Centers technology. The Laboratory also is Ames Research Center The Center, responsible for the operation of the Deep located at Moffett Field, CA, provides Space Network in support of NASA leadership for NASA in aeronautics and projects. astronautics research and technology Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center The development. The Center fulfills this Center, which is located in , TX, mission through the development and is the host center for the Space Station operation of unique national facilities Program Office, and manages the and the conduct and management of development and operation of the space leading edge research and technology shuttle, a manned space transportation programs. These activities are vital to the system developed for the United States achievement of the Nation’s aeronautics by NASA. The shuttle is designed to and space goals, and to its security and reduce the cost of using space for economic prosperity. commercial, scientific, and defense Dryden Flight Research Center The needs. This Center is responsible for the Center, which is located in Edwards, CA, development, production, delivery, and conducts safe, timely aerospace flight flight operation of the orbiter vehicle, research and aircraft operations in that portion of the space shuttle that is support of agency and national needs. It designed to take crew and experiments assures preeminent flight research into space, place satellites in orbit, capability through effective management retrieve ailing satellites, etc. The shuttle and maintenance of unique national crew (up to seven people) includes expertise and facilities, and provides pilots, mission specialists, and payload operational landing support for the specialists. Crew personnel (other than national space transportation system. payload specialists) are recruited, Goddard Space Flight Center The selected, and trained by the Center. It is Center, which is located in Greenbelt, also responsible for design, MD, conducts Earth-orbiting spacecraft development, and testing of spaceflight NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 611 payloads and associated systems for space environmental effects; and systems manned flight; for planning and analysis of advanced aerospace vehicles. conducting manned spaceflight missions; Lewis Research Center The Center, and for directing medical, engineering, located in Cleveland, OH, is a center of and scientific experiments that are excellence in aeronautics, space systems, helping man understand and improve and microgravity science and the environment. technology. The Center also conducts John F. Kennedy Space Center The research in critical disciplines of Center in designs, constructs, materials, structures, internal fluid operates, and maintains space vehicle mechanics instrumentation, and controls facilities and ground support equipment and electronics. All of these efforts are for launch and recovery operations. The supported by unique research and Center is also responsible for prelaunch development facilities. George C. Marshall Space Flight Center operations, launch operations, and The Center, which is located in payload processing for the space shuttle Huntsville, AL, manages, develops, and and expendable launch vehicle tests the external tank, solid rocket programs, and landing operations for the booster, and main engines, which are space shuttle orbiter; also recovery and major portions of the space shuttle refurbishment of the reusable solid project; oversees the development of the rocket booster. Spacelab; and conducts research in Langley Research Center The Center, structural systems, materials science located in Hampton, VA, performs engineering, electronics, guidance, research in long-haul aircraft technology; navigation, and control. general aviation commuter aircraft John C. Stennis Space Center The technology; military aircraft and missile Center, which is located in Bay St. Louis, (systems) technology; National Aero- MS, plans and manages research and Space Plane; fundamental aerodynamics; development activities in the field of computational fluid dynamics; space and terrestrial applications; space propulsion/airframe integration; unsteady flight; and research in oceanography, aerodynamics and aeroelasticity; meteorology, and environmental hypersonic propulsion; aerospace sciences. acoustics; aerospace vehicle structures and materials; computational structural Sources of Information mechanics; space structures and Contracts and Small Business Activities dynamics; controls/structures interaction; Inquiries regarding contracting for small aeroservoelasticity; interdisciplinary business opportunities with the research; aerothermodynamics; aircraft Administration should be directed to the flight management and operating Associate Administrator for Small and procedures; advanced displays; Disadvantaged Business Utilization, computer science; electromagnetics; NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street SW., automation and robotics; reliable, fault- Washington, DC 20546. 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