NASAwatch reports more top level moves at NASA
time to start managing the crisis that keep popping up
Karl Rove staffer becomes NASA White House liasion
I wonder if she has strong opinions on the Big Bang vs Steady State "controversy"?
Came to White House from Arkansas RNC
UPDATE: she apparently graduated from Wake Forest in '04, which means she should be about 25 years old, three years out of college.
And she is the White House liasion for NASA at the Administrator level, with her work experience being that she spent a couple of years in Karl Rove's office working on the DoJ.
Associate Director of Political Affairs.
I hope she took a gap year before college, or something.
dailykos diarist did some research
"Alles klar, herr kommissar"
strangely, what with a top FEMA admin having moved over to NASA just a few months ago, you'd think the place would be sorted by now
enough to drive you to drink 'tis
PS: man, the WH liasion up in the Admin office is a GS-15 level position, young Jane just doubled her salary to $110k - $143k, plus any performance bonuses.
Nice work if you can get it.
Wonder if she gets to order Mather around? Tell Alan Stern what the Science priorities are?
NASA criteria for promotion to GS-15 rank as civil servant
The scientist path is you get there after having been a lead scientist of an explorer or discovery class mission.
"... you'd think the place would be sorted by now."
Not after the Sorting Hat was set afire, and all students assigned to Slytherin.
Oh, wait a minute, you mean NASA, not the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts.
So I ask again: is Veep Cheney more like Lord Vader or Lord Valdemort?
Vader got the Death Star built on time and under budget. Now THAT's the way to run a space station project. Rove applies the Dark Side of the Force, to be sure. But Valdemort and Vader have more Dark Energy.
Sorry. Spent too long at school today swapping IUS stories with someone else who saw from the inside how NASA and USAF can screw up space projects massively, and get away with it. The public never knows HOW deeply everything is intertwingled, as my old partner Ted Nelson says.