NASA

Leadership & Staff

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Jared Isaacman Trump pick to head NASA; head of Allentown Pennsylvania-based Shift4 Payments; funded civilian SpaceX flight in September 2021

• Administrator (Dec 18 '25→?)

Heather McDonald NASA Engineer

• Chief Engineer, Space Operations Mission Directorate (Sep 1 '23→?) [+1]

• Chief Engineer, International Space Station (Jul 1 '18→Sep 1 '23)

Michele King Programmatic Risk Analyst at NASA

• Senior Programmatic Analyst (Mar 1 '16→?)

David Mitchell NASA Chief Program Management Officer

• Chief Program Management Officer (Jan 1 '22→?)

Bill Nelson Biden NASA head, former Democratic US Senator and Representative from Florida

• 14th NASA administrator (May 3 '21→?)

Phil Bland Phil Bland joined Curtin as an ARC Laureate Fellow in 2012

• Space Science and Technology Centre Contact Person

JD Polk

• Senior Medical Officer

Jim Bridenstine Trump NASA administrator, former US Representative from Oklahoma

• 13th administrator (Apr 23 '18→?)

Charles F Bolden Jr Test pilot, astronaut, USMC general

• Administrator (Jul 17 '09→?)

Michael Beavin Director of Strategic Business Development and Government Relations at Advanced Space; former Director of Commercial Space Policy at the National Space Council.

• Senior Advisor to the NASA Administrator

Donations

iCeNSA Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science & Applications at Notre Dame Data Science Focused on Social, Biological, Physical, Environmental, Financial & Defense Systems

• Sponsor

Child Organizations

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Michoud Assembly Facility Manufacture and assembly of critical hardware for exploration vehicles

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Glenn Research Center

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Ames Research Center Major research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley

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NASA Safety Center

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Wallops Flight Facility Suborbital Research Programs

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Stennis Space Center Rocket propulsion testing and remote sensing technology

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Marshall Space Flight Center Space transportation and propulsion technologies

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NASA Langley Research Center Aviation and space research

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Federally Funded Research and Development Center Managed by Caltech

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NASA Headquarters

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Parents

Independent Agencies

• Parent Org

Members

William Bottke Director of the Space Studies Department at Southwest Research Institute; planetary scientist on NASA's OSIRIS-REx, Lucy, and Psyche mission science teams.

• Science-team member: OSIRIS-REx, Lucy, Psyche, and NEO Surveyor missions

Memberships

Microsoft Accelerate Texas Global Skills Collaboration With Texas Education Agency

• Partner (Oct '20→?)*

The COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium private-public consortium launched by the White House during the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Member

Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Education and Training UND drone research program

• Partner

Services & Transactions

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Boeing Company Advanced technology manufacturer and systems developer

• Contractor · 2,232,483,647 USD ('03→'08)

Lockheed Martin Corporation Defense, aeronautics, and systems engineering company

• Contractor · 2,176,215,480 USD ('03→'08)

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Large, diverse provider of technical and construction services.

• Contractor · 1,230,439,553 USD ('03→'08)

RTX The world's second-largest aerospace-and-defense company

• Contractor · 917,109,649 USD ('03→'08)

Northrop Grumman Corporation Large American Defense Contractor

• Contractor · 749,953,710 USD ('03→'08)

ITT Inc An aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial engineering company

• Contractor · 429,662,612 USD ('03→'08)

Raytheon Company Defense contractor; merged with UTC. Surviving company exists as a subsidiary of the renamed UTC, company, Raytheon Technologies

• Contractor · 374,662,714 USD ('03→'08)

Computer Sciences Corporation Provides IT services to industry and government

• Contractor · 373,858,293 USD ('03→'08)

Ball Corporation aluminum packaging for beverage, personal care and household products

• Contractor · 336,757,466 USD ('03→'08)

BAE Space & Mission Systems American spacecraft

• contractor · 230,000,000 USD

Lobbied By

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Marshall A Brachman Attorney, Lobbyist; President for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

• Lobbying (for client) ('99)

Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates Since 1981, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates has helped Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and other clients impact public policy as Washington’s top full service government affairs fir

• Lobbying (for client) ('99→'05)

Rockwell Collins Inc An avionics company

• Direct Lobbying ('01→'08)

Balzano Associates Inc

• Lobbying (for client) ('99→'00)

Van Scoyoc Associates

• Lobbying (for client) ('99→'08)

Ford Motor Company Automobile Manufacturer

• Direct Lobbying ('99)

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Large, diverse provider of technical and construction services.

• Direct Lobbying ('00→'02)

Davis & Assoc RV

• Lobbying (for client) ('00→'02)

Rhoads Group A top government relations firm

• Lobbying (for client) ('99→'00)

O'Connor & Hannon LLP

• Lobbying (for client) ('99→'00)

Miscellaneous Relationships

Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk / Vivek Ramaswamy small-government task force

• Affiliation

Todd Huffman Transhumanist; DARPA intelligence researcher; Founder and CEO, 3scan, co-founder of the BIL conference.

• Wants to defund NASA ('99→?)*

Mars Sample Return Independent Review Board-2

• Affiliation

Psyche Independent Review Board Tasked with investigating the delay of the Psyche mission

• Charter ('22)

Concentric Sky Enterprise Software Solutions-Ed-Tech, Badging, Eugene, OR

• Partner*

Space Science and Technology Centre The largest planetary research group in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Partner

Curtin University of Technology An Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia

• Partner

Unreal Engine (Epic Games) Licensed Software for Constructive Solid Geometry Operations for Video Games

• Used by ('17→?)*