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the past six months I've reached deep
into NASA to listen to the hopes and the
dreams of the NASA employees I listened
to the concerns expressed by America's
leaders outside the agency and also the
compliments that they've made of the
wonderful work that nASA has done I've
been to all of our centers but one I've
met with all the red teams and blue
teams sometimes a few times met with
leaders in academia CEOs of corporations
I met with small entrepreneurial
businesses small disadvantaged
businesses I met with leaders of the
minority community women's community in
the country and I've traveled abroad met
with the leaders abroad that with 200
members of Congress I read the Augustine
report the pain Commission report the
Rogers report and when I go through all
this there's universal agreement that
NASA is vital to our nation and cannot
afford to fail and NASA must perform its
missions by reaching for the planets and
the stars but at the same time as I
talked a few days ago bring back
cutting-edge technology to generate new
jobs and new industries and hope and
opportunity and we can do it and have
been doing it but to do it even better
today I'm going to announce the
following changes in our organization to
improve management and bring focus to
programs that are very very essential to
America's future the first program and
it's so important to our future is Space
Station freedom and on Space Station
freedom we have the support of the
American people in the Congress and in
1993 we have to deliver on the promise
so as a first step as part of the
restructuring and the management
approach we're going to put two of our
very best people on Space Station
freedom first we have Tommy Campbell the
control of NASA Tommy is going to go
over and be the chief financial officer
on Space Station freedom but taking the
strongest financial person at NASA if
not in the
government and sending him over the
station tommy is very gracious he is
pretty he feels privileged to do it and
he told me how excited he was just a few
hours ago Marty crests who's had a
legislative affairs is going to go over
the Space Station freedom as the deputy
program manager the policy and
management to dick course Marty is one
of up and coming bright people he did a
wonderful job working with me on the
hill to convince the Congress that it
was right in proceeding the Space
Station freedom Maudie's committed to
the space station and he's going to
bring a tremendous wealth of capability
in tying our international partners
closer together bringing the utilization
community the scientists and the
engineers in industry and academia that
are going to take part in this wonderful
program to bring them closer together so
that they feel at their participating
and to relieve dick cause of a variety
of management duties so dick cores could
assure that we have a successful CDR and
the hardware comes out when it's
supposed to come out now the variety of
other tasks associated with the space
station and its management structure
that have not been resolved yet by our
red team and our roles admissions team
and because we have not yet reached
consensus we're going to hold off until
we really work it through there's a
meeting of the NASA top team this
Saturday we're going to continue our
deliberations and as soon as we cut our
consensus then we'll move with the next
steps on Space Station freedom but we
felt it was so important to get our real
key people there and this is the first
in a series of management moves were
going to make to bring the very best we
have in NASA to the space station Mary
Kerwin will become the acting admittance
administrator for legislative affairs
and she was the director of liaison
division for the legislative affairs
activity and Gary Allison will become
the acting controller and both of these
jobs will be advertised for open
competition clearly we have high regard
for these two people in the acting
capacity but these jobs are going to be
opened up to all of America
the next the appointment gives me
tremendous pleasure and that is Lenfest
will become the chief scientist of NASA
he is one of the most brilliant people
we have in this organization probably
one of our most effective and the
strongest contributors in the science
area and in order to get closer to
academia to communicate with the
presidents of our major universities to
get much closer with the lodge and small
corporations in their R&D facilities and
get NASA tied into America so we could
transfer our technology and we could
pull technology out of all these places
so we could always be on the cutting
edge Len is going to be there and as I
discussed a few days ago NASA is going
to intensify its efforts in the
international arena and when is going to
be our spokesman and I think it's very
important to recognize that NASA is more
than just management and programs NASA
exists with science and exploration and
I'm thrilled to have a man of lens
stature join me in the administrator's
office and when and I talked and
hopefully he'll be joining me in days
and it will be no longer than than than
two weeks because we have a lot of work
to do to get his organization structured
for change in the area of OSS a to get
the organization aligned to programs and
science and to get more visibility to
the American community and the
administrator we're going to break up
OSS a the office of space science
applications into two parts mission to
Planet Earth and mission from Planet
Earth and Shelby Tilford will be the
acting associate administrator
permission to Planet Earth and Wes
Huntress will be the acting associate
administrator for mission from Planet
Earth now once again there are a few
details that we have not yet worked out
there isn't consensus yet on how to go
about where we put life sciences and
microgravity but we're going to have a
further set of roles in missions
meetings and I felt it would be
inappropriate to break the spirit of
teamwork that was going on there as we
made these changes so we'll continue our
deliberations and as soon as we get done
we'll be able to announce that but this
is going too real
be an opportunity for strengthening our
planetary astrophysics programs and get
us more focused in meeting a moral
commitment we have two American the
people of the world to bring back the
data to understand what is happening to
our environment what are the naturally
induced effects and what should what are
the human-induced effects because
policymakers need is very critical data
over the decades ahead to make the very
difficult decisions that have to be made
and I'm very proud of this team by
breaking it up into two parts and it was
getting very very big I think we'll be
more focused but I was just speaking to
some of the people from lens Advisory
Committee on the phone and I assured
them we're not going to lose the
synergism that Len built in having a
science community and we're going to
work very closely with the advisory
committees national research council and
the committee's thereof to assure that
we have coherence in our science
programs another area that's become
quite clear in need of focus and
attention as aeronautics I talked about
this over the last few weeks I have now
met with most of the major CEOs and
manages of Aeronautics program in this
country and is clear that they believe
the relationship with NASA is beneficial
apartman defense has a good relationship
with NASA in terms of its cutting-edge
technology so we're announcing today
that we're going to break 0 AST into two
parts the office of aeronautics and i'll
talk about the second part in just a
moment but this office of aeronautics is
very very crucial and cecil rosen will
be the acting associate administrator of
this office and pete peterson who has
been the head of 0 AST is going on to
take a very difficult job the augustine
report panel had indicated that
infrastructure was one of the key issues
at nasa had to take a good hard look at
and as we went out and talked to the
folks in the Aeronautics industry in the
space industry it became clear that
there was a lot of duplication of
facilities in the Department of Defense
and NASA and an industry and as a result
we spread a whole large infrastructure
across the country
but what we've got to have off focus
facilities that a world-class so Pete
Peterson is not going to undertake a 15
month study to work with industry work
with the Department of Defense and other
departments of US government to see how
we could work closer together in
aeronautics and space to come up with a
facility infrastructure that gives us
world-class facilities and utilizes the
resources that the taxpayers and
industry are providing to get maximum
benefit so Pete Peterson is going to
have 15 months and we're going to all be
working with him to assure that we get
the very best infrastructure in this
country the second half of OST the S the
T in OA s space technology in OSD is
going to be combined with the commercial
activity and we are going to form the
advanced concepts and technology office
that will catalyze activities at NASA to
be on the cutting edge of technology we
want to have advanced concepts we want
to have a place in NASA where
entrepreneurs feel comfortable to show
up with brand new ideas where people in
academia who have an idea and want to
work with NASA could bring it a place
where industry that's in need of
technology transfer could come to NASA
for the very latest technology and feel
that there's a receptive place a voice
to listen to them where we will be able
to help them move out and develop new
industries and new products and most of
all a place where we could aggressively
deal with the commercialization of space
so this is going to be a small
tight-knit catalytic organization and
we've asked Gregory rec to become the
acting associate administrator of this
new office or advanced concepts and
technology Courtney stad will assist him
as the acting deputy associate
administrator to bring in the commercial
aspects and to tie in the commercial
industry Jack Maddux was presently head
of the the
commercial office will become associate
general counsel for intellectual
property and I look forward to the
tremendous output that Jack is going to
make so we had to find a number of new
organizations we have the fine
opportunity we're going to advertise all
these jobs widely across the country in
academia we're going to advertise these
jobs in industrial and professional
journals we're going to advertise these
jobs in minority publications and
publications that women read because we
want the very best in America you want
NASA employees to apply we want the very
best people in America to apply and
we'll have an open competition and
select the very very best people I'm
terribly excited I've been on the phone
for the last few hours and I believe
it's been very positive the people
involved feel very very good about it
and we've begun phase one of the
restructuring at NASA thank you very
much and the before we end I'd like to
ask Len Fisk was going to have to be
dealing with me on a day-to-day basis to
come up and say a few words when thank
you down just a couple of comments I
think there's an important message in
and the reestablishment of the position
of chief scientist it it sends the very
clear message that that science is such
an integral part of what we do here at
NASA and it is the part of the NASA
program which really lends itself so
naturally to the things that we try and
do as Dan said the other day in his
remarks if you if you break down the
sort of goals of the agency it's is to
provide inspiration it's provide hope
it's provide opportunity and for
international in addition international
cooperation and science plays a very
natural role in all of those those
activities and so I'm looking forward to
the opportunity to bring that theme to
the agency on a very broad scale of all
of what
it does and also to communicate to the
rest of the world that that nASA has so
many things to offer both in in science
and in technology thank you guys let me
shake your hand again and that let me
just close by saying the first six
months that I've been at NASA have been
the happiest moments of my life the most
tiring moments the hardest-working
moments but the NASA employees are
wonderful they're an exciting motivated
group of people that really want to make
a difference in our world and we're
going to continue the wonderful
tradition that's been set we're going to
move forward and we have nothing but
inspiration hope opportunity and the
thought that we could be a catalytic
action for peace in the world so thank
you very much for listening and I look
forward to working with everybody in the
future