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580 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

NATIONAL AND 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 FRANCE A. CORDOVA Chief DANIEL R. MULVILLE Chief Information Officer RONALD S. WEST NASA Chief Financial Officer ARNOLD G. HOLZ Comptroller MALCOLM L. PETERSON Deputy Chief Financial Officer KENNETH J. WINTER Director, Financial Management Division STEPHEN J. VARHOLY Director, Resource Analysis Division PATRICIA A. NASH Director, Systems and Cost Analysis DAVID J. PINE Division Chief, Budget Operations Office (VACANCY) Associate Administrator for Headquarters MICHAEL D. CHRISTENSEN Operations Associate Administrator for Policy and Plans ALAN M. LADWIG Manager, Special Projects and Staff Director, ANNE L. ACCOLA NASA Advisory Council Director for NASA Continual Improvement JOHN W. GAFF Director for Special Studies SYLVIA K. KRAEMER Director for Strategic Planning GARY A. STEINBERG 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 Inquiries Division HELEN ROTHMAN Director, Congressional Liaison Division MARY D. KERWIN, Acting Director, Legislation Division MICHAEL A. MAGUIRE 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 ) Director, Medicine Division EARL W. FERGUSON Director, Flight Systems Office EDWARD A. REEVES Director, Life Sciences Division JOAN VERNIKOS Director, Microgravity Sciences and C. RHOME Applications Division Director, Policy and Program Management ARNAULD E. NICOGOSSIAN, Acting Associate Administrator for Mission to Planet CHARLES F. KENNEL Earth Deputy Associate Administrator (Programs) WILLIAM F. TOWNSEND Deputy Associate Administrator MICHAEL B. MANN (Management) NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 581

Assistant Associate Administrator (Program DOUGLAS R. NORTON Integration) 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, JR. Deputy Associate Administrator EARLE K. HUCKINS Director, Administration and Resources (VACANCY) Management Division Director, Advanced and PETER ULRICH Mission Studies Division Director, Mission and Payload KENNETH LEDBETTER Development Division Director, Research Program Management HENRY BRINTON Division General Counsel EDWARD A. FRANKLE Deputy General Counsel GEORGE E. REESE Associate General Counsel (Commercial) JUNE W. EDWARDS Associate General Counsel (Contracts) DAVID P. FORBES Associate General Counsel (General Law) ROBERT M. STEPHENS Associate General Counsel (Intellectual JOHN G. MANNIX Property) Associate Administrator for Procurement DEIDRE A. LEE Deputy Associate Administrator THOMAS S. LUEDTKE Director, Analysis Division JAMES A. BALINSKAS Director, Contract Management Division ANNE C. GUENTHER Director, Program Operations Division A. FOSTER FOURNIER 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 Office CHARLES R. GUNN Director, Management Operations MARTIN STEIN Division Director, Space Processing Division EDWARD A. GABRIS Director, Space Transportation Division GARY PAYTON Director, Systems Division SAMUEL L. VENNERI Director, Technology Transfer and ROBERT L. NORWOOD Commercial Development Division Senior Executive for Advanced Concept IVAN BEKEY Division Associate Administrator for Public Affairs LAURIE BOEDER Deputy Associate Administrator GEOFFREY H. VINCENT Director, Media Services Division MARK S. HESS Director, Public Services Division PAULA CLEGGETT-HALEIM Associate Administrator for Space Flight WILBUR C. TRAFTON, Acting Deputy Associate Administrator RICHARD J. WISNIEWSKI Deputy Associate Administrator (Space STEPHEN S. OSWALD, Acting Shuttle) Deputy Associate Administrator (Space WILBUR C. TRAFTON Station Program) 582 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Associate Administrator for Management BENITA A. COOPER Systems and Facilities Deputy Associate Administrator (VACANCY) Director, Management Office J. TIMOTHY BODDIE, JR. Director, Environmental Management OLGA DOMINGUEZ, Acting Division Director, Facilities Engineering Division WILLIAM W. BRUBAKER Director, Information Resources RUSSELL S. RICE Management Division Director, Management Assessment Division DANALEE GREEN, Acting Director, Security, Logistics, and Industrial JEFFREY E. SUTTON Relations Division Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission FREDERICK D. GREGORY Assurance Deputy Associate Administrator MICHAEL A. GREENFIELD Executive Director, Aerospace Safety FRANK L. MANNING Advisory Panel Director, Payloads and Aeronautics PEGGY L. EVANICH Division Director, Space Flight Safety and Mission CHESTER F. NOLF, JR., Acting Assurance Division Director, Safety and Risk Management JAMES D. LLOYD Division Director, Resources Management Office DALE E. MOORE Associate Administrator for Aeronautics ROBERT E. WHITEHEAD Deputy Associate Administrator RICHARD A. REEVES Director, Aerospace Research Division RICHARD S. CHRISTIANSEN, Acting Director, Alliance Development Office LOUIS J. WILLIAMS Director, Systems Technology LEE B. HOLCOMB Division Director, Management Support Office CATHY H. MANGUM Director, Resources Management Office GLENN C. FULLER Director, Subsonic Transportation Division RAY V. HOOD, Acting Associate Administrator for Space CHARLES T. Deputy Associate Administrator (VACANCY) 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, Program Integration Division DAVID W. HARRIS Director, Division WILSON LUNDY Associate Administrator for Resources SPENCE M. ARMSTRONG and Education Director, Education Division FRANKLIN C. OWENS Director, Management Systems Division STANLEY S. KASK, JR. Director, Personnel Division VICKI A. NOVAK Director, Training and Development CARSON K. EOYANG Division Associate Administrator for Equal Opportunity GEORGE E. REESE, Acting Programs Deputy Associate Administrator (VACANCY) Director, Affirmative Employment and JAMES A. WESTBROOKS Diversity Policy Division NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 583

Director, Discrimination Complaints BRENDA MANUEL-ALEXANDER, Division Acting Director, Minority University Research and BETTIE L. WHITE Education Division Inspector General ROBERTA L. GROSS Assistant Inspector General for Alliances and LEWIS D. RINKER Partnerships Assistant Inspector General for Auditing DEBRA A. GUENTZEL Assistant Inspector General for RICHARD D. TRIPLETT, Acting Investigations Assistant Inspector General for Inspections DAVID M. CUSHING and Assessments Associate Administrator for External Relations JOHN D. SHUMACHER Deputy Associate Administrator (Space MICHAEL F. O’BRIEN Flight) Director, Defense Affairs Division CONRAD O. FORSYTHE Director, Management Support Office SHIRLEY A. PEREZ Director, International Relations Division BETH A. MASTERS Director, Mission to Planet Earth Division LISA R. SHAFFER Director, Space Flight Division LYNN F.H. CLINE Director, Inventions and Contributions ROBERT J. BOBEK Board NASA Centers Director, HENRY MCDONALD Director, George C. Marshall Space Flight J. WAYNE LITTLES Center Director, Goddard Space Flight Center JOSEPH H. ROTHENBERG Manager, NASA Management Office, Jet KURT LINDSTROM Laboratory Director, John F. JAY F. HONEYCUTT Director, PAUL F. HOLLOWAY Director, Lewis Research Center DONALD J. CAMPBELL Director, Lyndon B. GEORGE W.S. ABBEY 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 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 NASA Headquarters Administration was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of Planning, coordinating, and controlling 1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2451 et Administration programs are vested in seq.). Headquarters. Directors of NASA centers are responsible for the execution of agency programs, largely through contracts with research, development, 584 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL LABORATORY EXTERNAL RELATIONS SMALL AND JET PROPULSION * PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPACE SCIENCE DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION GENERAL INSPECTOR PROGRAMS DRYDEN FLIGHT OPERATIONS AERONAUTICS APPLICATIONS SCIENCES AND PROCUREMENT RESEARCH CENTER HEADQUARTERS AMES RESEARCH CENTER LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER EQUAL OPPORTUNITY LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER LIFE AND MICROGRAVITY CENTERS

OFFICE OF THE STAFF OFFICES ADMINISTRATOR PROGRAM OFFICES SPACE SPACE FLIGHT GENERAL COUNSEL SPACE CENTER ASSURANCE SPACE CENTER SPACE CENTER SPACE CENTER JOHN C. STENNIS JOHN F. KENNEDY LYNDON JOHNSON AND EDUCATION GEORGE C. MARSHALL COMMUNICATIONS HUMAN RESOURCES SAFETY AND MISSION COUNCIL NASA ADVISORY ADVISORY PANEL NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AEROSPACE SAFETY AFFAIRS OFFICER FACILITIES MISSION TO FLIGHT CENTER LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM AND GODDARD SPACE MANAGEMENT PLANET EARTH SPACE ACCESS CHIEF FINANCIAL AND TECHNOLOGY JPL is a contractor-operated facility. * PLANS POLICY AND NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 585 and manufacturing enterprises. A broad Life and Microgravity Sciences and range of research and development Applications The Office of Life and activities are conducted in NASA Centers Microgravity Sciences and Applications by Government-employed , is responsible for NASA’s programs , and technicians to evaluate concerned with life and microgravity new concepts and phenomena and to sciences and their possible commercial maintain the competence required to applications, life support research and manage contracts with private , space human factors, enterprises. occupational health issues, and Planning, directing, and managing aerospace medicine. The Office provides research and development programs are planning, development, integration, and the responsibility of seven program operations support for science payloads offices, all of which report to and on the , free flyers, receive overall guidance and direction international , and other from the Administrator. The overall advanced carriers. The Office also planning and direction of institutional establishes all requirements and operations at NASA Centers and standards for design, development, and management of agencywide institutional operation of human space flight systems resources are the responsibility of the and facilities. appropriate Institutional Associate For further information, call 202–358–0123. Administrator under the overall guidance and direction of the Administrator. Mission to Planet Earth The Office of Aeronautics The Office of Aeronautics Mission to Planet Earth conducts NASA’s is responsible for conducting programs programs that study global climate that pioneer the identification, change and integrated functioning of the development, verification, transfer, Earth as a system. This includes application, and commercialization of developing and managing remote high-payoff aeronautics technologies. sensing and instruments, aircraft The Office seeks to promote economic and ground measurements and research, growth and security and to enhance U.S. as well as data and information systems competitiveness through safe, superior, needed to support the objectives of the and environmentally compatible U.S. U.S. Global Change Research Program. civil and military aircraft, and through a The Office also has institutional safe, efficient national aviation system. In management responsibility for the addition, the Office is responsible for Goddard Space Flight Center and managing the Ames, Dryden Flight, maintains contact with the National Langley, and Lewis Research Centers. Academy of Sciences and other science For further information, call 202–358–2693. advisory and coordinating boards and committees. Space Access and Technology The Office of Space Access and Technology For further information, call 202–358–1770. pioneers innovative space technologies and proactively transfers those Space Science The Office of Space technologies to aerospace and Science is responsible for conducting nonaerospace applications. This Office is programs and research designed to responsible for planning and assessing understand the origin, evolution, and technology development requirements structure of the universe and the solar and providing management and system. The Office also manages NASA’s executive leadership for activities across activities at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory the Agency which satisfy these and maintains contacts with the Space requirements; and for developing Studies Board of the National Academy partnerships with industry, academia, of Sciences and with other science and other Government agencies. advisory boards and committees. For further information, call 202–358–4566. For further information, call 202–358–1409. 586 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Space Flight The Office of Space Flight nations represented by the European (OSF) is NASA’s principal organization Space Agency. The space station will be for space flight operations and utilization a permanent outpost in space where involving human space flight. It consists will live and work productively of the following programmatic missions: for extended periods of time. It will flight to and from space for people and provide an advanced research laboratory cargo, operating habitable space to explore space and employ its facilities, and managing the utilization of resources, as well as the opportunity to these facilities in support of NASA’s learn to build, operate, and maintain space missions, such as space missions systems in space. U.S. elements of the from and to Earth. The Office operates space station will be launched aboard the space shuttle and the Spacelab and the space shuttle and assembled in . is currently leading development of the The first flight is scheduled for 1997. international space station. The Office is also responsible for institutional For further information, call 202–358–2015. management of the Kennedy Space Space Communications The Office of Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Space Communications is responsible for Johnson Space Flight Center, and the meeting requirements critical to NASA’s Stennis Space Center. aeronautics and space flight missions. In further executing its responsibilities, They include spacecraft operations and the Office plans, directs, and executes control centers, ground and space the development, acquisition, testing, communications, data acquisition and and operation of all elements of the processing, flight dynamics and ; plans, directs, trajectory analyses, spacecraft tracking, and manages execution of prelaunch, and applied research and development launch, flight , post-flight of new technology. The Space Network operations, and payload assignments; with its constellation of Tracking and maintains and upgrades the design of ground and flight systems throughout the Data Relay Satellites, Deep Space operational period; procures recurring Network, Tracking and Data system hardware; manages Spacelab Network, and various other facilities development, procurement, and currently provide for the requirements operations; develops and implements for NASA’s space missions. A global necessary policy with other government communications system links tracking and commercial users of the space sites, control centers, and data shuttle; and coordinates all associated processing facilities that provide real- research. The Office is working with the time data processing for mission control, Russian Space Agency to plan and orbit and attitude determination, and execute a series of joint missions that routine processing of data for will involve flying cosmonauts aboard space missions. the space shuttle and aboard For further information, call 202–358–4758. the Mir space station. In 1995, a U.S. was launched aboard a NASA Centers Russian to Mir for a 115-day stay aboard the space station, followed by a Ames Research Center The Center, shuttle docking mission to Mir to located at Moffett Field, CA, provides exchange crew members. This mission leadership for NASA in airspace systems was the first of up to nine joint missions, operations, astrobiology, and information precursors to assembly and utilization of systems research and technology the international space station. development. The Center fulfills this The Administration is leading an mission through the development and international effort to build and deploy a operation of unique national facilities permanently manned space station into and the conduct and management of Earth’s orbit. Elements of the space leading edge research and technology station will be provided by Canada, programs. These activities are vital to the Japan, Italy, Russia, and nine European achievement of the Nation’s aeronautics NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 587 and space goals, and to its security and development, and testing of spaceflight economic prosperity. payloads and associated systems for Dryden Flight Research Center The manned flight; for planning and Center, which is located in Edwards, CA, conducting manned spaceflight missions; conducts safe, timely aerospace flight and for directing medical, engineering, research and aircraft operations in and scientific experiments that are support of agency and national needs. It helping man understand and improve assures preeminent flight research the environment. capability through effective management John F. Kennedy Space Center The and maintenance of unique national Center in designs, constructs, expertise and facilities, and provides operates, and maintains space operational landing support for the facilities and ground support equipment national space transportation system. for launch and recovery operations. The Goddard Space Flight Center The Center is also responsible for prelaunch Center, which is located in Greenbelt, operations, launch operations, and MD, conducts Earth-orbiting spacecraft payload processing for the space shuttle and experiment development and flight and expendable operations. It develops and operates programs, and landing operations for the tracking and data acquisition systems space shuttle orbiter; also recovery and and conducts supporting mission refurbishment of the reusable solid operations. It also develops and operates rocket . Spacelab payloads; space physics Langley Research Center The Center, research programs; Earth science and located in Hampton, VA, performs applications programs; life science research in long-haul aircraft technology; programs; information systems general aviation commuter aircraft technology; sounding rockets and technology; military aircraft and payloads; launch (systems) technology; fundamental vehicles; balloons and ; propulsion/airframe experiments; planetary science integration; unsteady aerodynamics and experiments; and sensors for aeroelasticity; hypersonic propulsion; environmental monitoring and ocean aerospace acoustics; aerospace vehicle dynamics. structures and materials; computational Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center The structural mechanics; space structures Center, which is located in , TX, and dynamics; controls/structures is the host center for the Space Station interaction; aeroservoelasticity; Program Office, and manages the interdisciplinary research; development and operation of the space aerothermodynamics; electromagnetics; shuttle, a manned space transportation automation and robotics; reliable, fault- system developed for the United States tolerant systems and software; aircraft by NASA. The shuttle is designed to flight control systems; advanced space reduce the cost of using space for vehicle configurations; advanced space commercial, scientific, and defense station development; technology needs. This Center is responsible for the experiments in space; remote sensor and development, production, delivery, and data acquisition and flight operation of the orbiter vehicle, technology; space electronics and that portion of the space shuttle that is control systems; planetary entry designed to take crew and experiments technology; nondestructive evaluation into space, place satellites in orbit, and measurements technology; retrieve ailing satellites, etc. The shuttle atmospheric sciences; Earth radiation crew (up to seven people) includes budget; atmospheric dynamics; space pilots, mission specialists, and payload power conversion and transmission; specialists. Crew personnel (other than space environmental effects; and systems payload specialists) are recruited, analysis of advanced aerospace vehicles. selected, and trained by the Center. It is Lewis Research Center The Center, also responsible for design, located in Cleveland, OH, is a center of 588 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL excellence in aeropropulsion, space Sources of Information power, and microgravity science and Contracts and Small Business Activities technology. The Center also conducts Inquiries regarding contracting for small research in critical disciplines of business opportunities with the materials, structures, internal fluid Administration should be directed to the mechanics instrumentation, and controls Associate Administrator for Small and and electronics. All of these efforts are Disadvantaged Business Utilization, supported by unique research and NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street SW., development facilities. Washington, DC 20546. Phone, 202– George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 358–2088. The Center, which is located in Employment Direct all inquiries to the Huntsville, AL, manages, develops, and Personnel Director of the nearest NASA tests the external tank, solid rocket Center or, for the Washington, DC, booster, and main , which are metropolitan area, to the Chief, major portions of the space shuttle Headquarters Personnel Branch, NASA project; oversees the development of the Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546. Spacelab; and conducts research in Phone, 202–358–1562. structural systems, materials science Publications, Speakers, Films, and engineering, electronics, guidance, Exhibit Services Several publications navigation, and control. concerning these services can be John C. Stennis Space Center The obtained by contacting the Public Affairs Center, which is located in Bay St. Louis, Officer of the nearest NASA Center. 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