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can be appealed to the U.S. Court of special studies of the civil service and Appeals for the Federal Circuit. other executive branch merit systems The Board reviews regulations issued and reports to the President and the by the Office of Personnel Management Congress on whether the Federal work and has the authority to require agencies force is being adequately protected to cease compliance with any regulation against political abuses and prohibited that could constitute a prohibited personnel practice. It also conducts personnel practices. Regional Offices—Merit Systems Protection Board

Region Address Director Telephone

Atlanta Regional Office 401 W. Peachtree St. NW., Atlanta, GA 30308 ...... Thomas J. Lanphear ...... 404–730–2755 Central Regional Office 31st Fl., 230 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL 60604 ..... Martin W. Baumgaertner 312–353–2923 Dallas Regional Office .. Rm. 620, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242 ..... Sharon F. Jackson ...... 214–767–0555 Northeastern Regional Rm. 501, 2d & Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA William L. Boulden ...... 215–597–9960 Office. 19106. Washington Regional Suite 205, 1800 Diagonal Rd., Alexandria, VA P.J. Winzer ...... 703–756–6250 Office. 22314. Western Regional Office Suite 400, 4th Fl., 250 Montgomery St., San Fran- Amy Dunning ...... 415–705–2935 cisco, CA 94104.

Field Offices—Merit Systems Protection Board

Chief Administrative Region Address Judge Telephone

Denver ...... Suite 318, 165 S. Union Blvd., Lakewood, CO Maxanne Witkin ...... 303–969–5101 80228. New York ...... Rm. 3137A, 26 Federal Plz., New York, NY 10278 Arthur S. Joseph ...... 212–264–9372

For further information, contact the Merit Systems Protection Board, 1615 M Street NW., Washington, DC 20419. Phone, 202–653–7200 or 800–209–8960. TDD, 800–877–8339. Fax, 202–653–7130. E-mail, [email protected]. Internet, www.mspb.gov.

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 300 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20546 Phone, 202–358–0000. Internet, www..gov.

Administrator MICHAEL D. GRIFFIN Deputy Administrator SHANA DALE Associate Administrator REX D. GEVEDEN Associate Deputy Administrator CHARLES SCALES Chief of Staff PAUL MORRELL Deputy Chief of Staff/White House Liaison JEFFREY T. JEZIERSKI Assistant Administrator for External Relations MICHAEL F. O’BRIEN Associate Administrator for Aeronautics LISA PORTER Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems SCOTT HOROWITZ Mission Directorate Associate Administrator for Institutions and THOMAS S. LUEDTKE Management Assistant Administrator for Diversity and Equal BRENDA R. MANUEL Opportunity Assistant Administrator for Human Capital TONI DAWSEY Management

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Assistant Administrator for Infrastructure and OLGA DOMINGUEZ Administration Assistant Administrator for Internal Controls JAY M. HENN, Acting and Management Systems Assistant Administrator for Procurement SHERYL GODDARD, Acting Assistant Administrator for Security and DAVID A. SALEEBA Program Protection Assistant Administrator for Small Business GLENN A. DELGADO Programs Executive Director, NASA Shared Services RICHARD E. ARBUTHNOT Center Associate Administraor for Program Analysis SCOTT PACE and Evaluation Associate Administrator for Science Mission ALAN STERN Directorate Associate Administrator for Space Operations WILLIAM GERSTENMAIER Mission Directorate Chief Engineer Chief Financial Officer TERRY BOWIE, Acting Chief Health and Medical Officer RICHARD S. WILLIAMS Chief Information Officer JONATHAN PETTUS, Acting Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer BRYAN O’CONNOR Chief of Strategic Communications BOB HOPKINS, Acting Assistant Administrator for Communications ROBERT HOPKINS Planning Assistant Administrator for Education JOYCE L. WINTERTON Assistant Administrator for Legislative and BRIAN CHASE Intergovernmental Affairs Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs DAVID MOULD Director, Innovative Partnerships Program DOUGLAS A. COMSTOCK Director, Integrated Enterprise Management BOBBY L. GERMAN Program Director, Office of Program and Institutional RICHARD J. KEEGAN Integration General Counsel MICHAEL C. WHOLLEY Inspector General ROBERT W. COBB NASA Centers Director, Ames Research Center S. PETE WORDEN Director, Dryden Flight Research Center KEVIN L. PETERSEN Director, John H. Glenn Research Center WOODROW WHITLOW Director, Goddard Space Flight Center EDWARD J. WEILER Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center MICHAEL COATS Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center WILLIAM W. PARSONS Director, Langley Research Center Director, George C. Marshall Space Flight DAVID A. KING Center Director, John C. Stennis Space Center RICHARD GILBRECH Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory CHARLES ELACHI [For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 14, Part 1201]

The mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

CHIEF SAFETY AND OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF MISSION ASSURANCE ADMINISTRATOR

ADMINISTRATOR PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR INSPECTOR GENERAL ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR

CHIEF ENGINEER NASA ADVISORY GROUPS

PROGRAM AND INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRATION

MISSION DIRECTORATES MISSION SUPPORT OFFICES

AERONAUTICS RESEARCH CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

EXPLORATION SYSTEMS CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

SCIENCE GENERAL COUNSEL

INTEGRATED ENTERPRISE SPACE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

NASA CENTERS EXTERNAL RELATIONS

AMES RESEARCH CENTER CHIEF HEALTH AND MEDICAL OFFICER

DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER INTERNAL CONTROLS AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

GLENN RESEARCH CENTER INSTITUTIONS AND MANAGEMENT

GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIVERSITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY * HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION PROCUREMENT JET PROPULSION LABORATORY SECURITY AND PROGRAM PROTECTION SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS * JOHNSON SPACE CENTER NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS

LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER COMMUNICATIONS PLANNING EDUCATION LEGISLATIVE AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER PUBLIC AFFAIRS

STENNIS SPACE CENTER

* In accordance with law, the offices of Diversity and Equal Opportunity and Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization maintain reporting relationships to the Deputy Administrator and Administrator.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Station after which it will be phased out Administration (NASA) was established of service. by the National Aeronautics and Space The Space and Flight Support theme Act of 1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. encompasses space communications, 2451 et seq.). launch services, and rocket propulsion testing. Space communications consists Activities of five major elements: the Space Aeronautics Research Directorate The Network or Tracking and Data Relay Aeronautics Research Mission Satellite System, the Deep Space Directorate conducts research and Network, the Ground Network, the technology activities to develop the NASA Integrated Services Network, and knowledge, tools, and technologies to NASA Spectrum Management. The support the development of future air launch services program focuses on and space vehicles and to support the NASA’s launch and payload processing transformation of the Nations’s air requirements for payloads not requiring transportation system. The Directorate’s the Space Shuttle. The rocket propulsion programs focus on cutting-edge, testing program supports the flight fundamental research in traditional readiness of various liquid propulsion aeronautical disciplines, as well as engines and acts as a test bed for rocket emerging fields with promising engines of the future. applications to aeronautics, and are conducted in conjunction with industry, For further information, call 202–358–2015. academia, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies, including the Science Mission Directorate The Federal Aviation Administration and the Science Mission Directorate carries out Department of Defense. the scientific exploration of the Earth, Moon, Mars, and beyond, charting the For further information, call 202–358–5241. best route of discovery. The Directorate Space Operations Mission Directorate manages and sponsors research, flight The Space Operations Mission missions, advanced technology Directorate (SOMD) provides the development, and related activities. It foundation for NASA’s space program— works to expand our understanding of space travel for human and robotic the Earth and the Sun and the Sun’s missions, in-space laboratories, and the effect on the solar system environments; means to return data to Earth. SOMD is explore the solar system with robots to responsible for many critical enabling study its origins and evolution including capabilities that make possible much of the origins of life within it; and explore the science, research, and exploration the universe beyond, from the search for achievements of the rest of NASA. This planets and life in other solar systems to is done through three themes: the the origin, evolution, and destiny of the International Space Station, Space universe itself. Shuttle, and Space and Flight Support. For further information, call 202–358–1409. The International Space Station Exploration Systems Mission Directorate supports activities for establishing a The Exploration Systems Mission permanent human presence in Earth’s Directorate (ESMD) is responsible for orbit. It provides a long-duration, creating a suite of new human habitable laboratory for science and exploration capabilities called research activities. Constellation Systems. This system The Space Shuttle, first launched in includes a crew exploration vechicle, 1981, provides the only current transportation, lunar and planetary body capability in the for human exploration, in-space support, and access to space. The Shuttle’s focus over ground-based support systems. The the next several years will be the ESMD also includes robotic missions to assembly of the International Space the Moon and research payloads that use

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the International Space System, as well develops and operates space systems, as ground based facilities. and advances essential technologies. Johnson Space Center The Lyndon B. For further information, call 202–358–7246. Johnson Space Center, located in NASA Centers Houston, TX, leads the United States in the human exploration of space. The Ames Research Center The Ames Center has made major advances in Research Center, located in California’s science, technology, engineering, and Silicon Valley, provides solutions to medicine and has led the Nation’s NASA’s exploration questions through human space flight programs and interdisciplinary scientific discovery and projects. It strives to advance the innovative technology systems. The Nation’s exploration of the universe with Center provides leadership in its expertise in medical, biomedical, and astrobiology, information science, small life sciences, lunar and planetary spacecraft, advanced thermal protection geosciences, crew and mission systems, human factors, and the operations, crew health and safety, development of new tools for a safer and project management, and space systems more efficient national airspace. It also engineering. The Center also leads develops unique partnerships and worldwide research in extraterrestrial collaborations, exemplified by NASA’s materials curation and the interaction Astrobiology Institute, the NASA between humans and robotics, as well as Research Park, and the University the biology and physiology of humans in Affiliated Research Center. space. Dryden Flight Research Center The Kennedy Space Center The John F. Dryden Flight Research Center, located Kennedy Center, located in Florida, is at Edwards, CA, is NASA’s primary responsible for NASA’s space launch installation for flight research. Since operation and spaceport and range 1946, Dryden’s researchers have led the technologies. Home to the Space Shuttle way in major advancements to the fleet and the launch services program, it design and capabilities of many civilian carries out its primary mission by and military aircraft. Dryden’s workforce managing the processing and launch of expertise in aeronautics and in the astronaut crews; the Space Shuttle and development of flight research tools and associated payloads; International Space techniques, coupled with the suite of Station elements, research experiments, specialized laboratories and facilities and supplies; and enabling the payload needed for flight validation, are key to processing of a wide variety of robotics the development and maturation of new payloads launched on commercial vehicles. services into space. The Center supports Glenn Research Center The John H. the Space Shuttle and International Glenn Research Center, located in Space Station programs and serves as Cleveland, OH, develops spaceflight NASA’s focal point for spaceport and systems and technologies to advance range technology development efforts to space exploration and maintains provide advanced technologies, systems, leadership in avaiation propulsion and techniques to increase safety and research. The Center leads the security and reduce the cost of access to development of the Service Module and space. Spacecraft Adapter for the Nation’s Crew Langley Research Center The Langley Exploration Vehicle. Research Center, located in Hampton, Goddard Space Flight Center The VA, is renowned for its scientific and Goddard Space Flight Center, located in technological expertise in aerospace Greenbelt, MD, expands the knowledge research, systems integration, and of Earth and its environment, the solar atmospheric science. Established 1917 as system, and the universe through an aeronautics lab, the Center also has a observations from space. The Center also rich heritage in space and science conducts scientific investigations, technologies. The Center conducts

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critical research in materials and program, but also for the Department of structures; aerodynamics; and Defense and the private sector. The hypersonic, supersonic, and subsonic Center’s Earth Science Applications flight; and has developed and validated Directorate leads NASA’s efforts to help technologies to improve the solve problems on Earth related to effectiveness, capability, comfort, and homeland security, agricultural efficiency of the Nation’s air efficiency, disaster preparedness, and transportation system. It supports the coastal management. Through the use of space exploration program and space NASA’s Earth science research, remote operations with systems analysis and sensing, and other technical capabilities, engineering, aerosciences, materials and the Directorate bridges the gap between structures, and technology and systems Earth science research results and the development and testing. The Center use of its data to help its partner continues to have a principal role in agencies. understanding and protecting our planet through atmospheric measurement, Government-Owned/Contractor- instruments, missions, and prediction Operated Facility algorithms. In 2003, NASA’s Engineering Jet Propulsion Laboratory The and Safety Center was established at Laboratory, which is operated under Langley to improve mission safety by contract by the California Institute of performing independent engineering Technology in Pasadena, CA, develops assessments, testing, analysis, and spacecraft and space sensors and evaluation to determine appropriate conducts mission operations and ground- preventative and corrective action for based research in support of solar system problens, trends, or issues across NASA exploration, Earth science and programs and projects. applications, Earth and ocean dynamics, Marshall Space Flight Center The space physics and astronomy, and life George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, science and information systems located in Hunstville, AL, develops and technology. It is also responsible for the integrates the transportation and space operation of the Deep Space Network in systems required for the Agency’s support of NASA projects. exploration, operations, and scientific missions. It provides the engineering and Sources of Information scientific capabilities to deliver space transportation and propulsion systems, Contracts and Small Business Activities space systems development and Inquiries regarding contracting for small integration, scientific and exploration business opportunities with NASA should instruments, and basic and applied be directed to the Assistant Administrator research. The Center manages the Space for Small Business Programs, Room Shuttle propulsion elements, the 5C39, NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street International Space Station, the Ares I SW., Washington, DC 20546. Phone, crew and Ares V cargo launch vehicles, 202–358–2088. and the Lunar Precursor Robotic Employment Direct all general Program. Other programs and projects inquiries to the NASA Shared Services include the Lunar Surface Access Center, Stennis, MS 39529. Phone, 877– Module Project, the Discovery Program, 677–2123. E-mail, nssc- New Frontiers Program, the Chandra X- [email protected]. ray Observatory Program, and the OIG Hotline An individual may report Hinode (Solar-B) Program. crimes, fraud, waste, and abuse in NASA Stennis Space Center The John C. programs and operations by calling the Stennis Center, located near Bay St. OIG Hotline (phone, 800–424–9183); by Louis, MS, has served as NASA’s rocket writing to the NASA Inspector General, propulsion testing ground for more than P.O. Box 23089, L’Enfant Plaza Station, four decades. Today, the Center provides Washington, DC 20026; or by sending test services not only for America’s space an electronic message from the OIG’s

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Web site (Internet, www.hq.nasa.gov/ Washington, DC 20402. Telephone office/oig/hq/cyberhotline.html). directories for NASA Centers are Publications, Speakers, Films, and available only from the Centers. Exhibit Services Several publications Publications and documents not concerning these services can be available for sale from the obtained by contacting the Public Affairs Superintendent of Documents or the Officer of the nearest NASA Center. National Technical Information Service Publications include NASA Directory of (Springfield, VA 22151) may be obtained Services for the Public, NASA Film List, from NASA Center’s Information Center and NASA Educational Publications List. in accordance with the NASA regulation The headquarters telephone directory concerning freedom of information. and certain publications and picture sets Reading Room NASA Headquarters are available for sale from the Information Center, Room 1H23, 300 E Superintendent of Documents, Street SW., Washington, DC 20546. Government Printing Office, Phone, 202–358–0000.

For further information, contact the Headquarters Information Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546. Phone, 202–358–0000. Internet, www.nasa.gov.

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Archivist of the United States ALLEN WEINSTEIN Deputy Archivist of the United States LEWIS J. BELLARDO Assistant Archivist for Administration ADRIENNE C. THOMAS Assistant Archivist for Information Services MARTHA MORPHY Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries SHARON K. FAWCETT Assistant Archivist for Records Services— MICHAEL J. KURTZ Washington, DC Assistant Archivist for Regional Records THOMAS E. MILLS Services Director of the Federal Register RAYMOND A. MOSLEY Director, Congressional Affairs and JOHN A. CONSTANCE Communications Staff Director, Equal Employment Opportunity and ROBERT JEW Diversity Programs Director, Information Security Oversight Office J. WILLIAM LEONARD Director, Policy and Planning Staff SUSAN M. ASHTIANIE Executive Director, National Historical MAX J. EVANS Publications and Records Commission General Counsel GARY M. STERN Inspector General PAUL BRACHFELD [For the National Archives and Records Administration statement of organization, see the Federal Register of June 25, 1985, 50 FR 26278]

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