CKO News Staff

This month, Esquire—the octogenarian magazine that has spent much of its years reporting on the bar, bedroom, and bathroom—describes a near disaster on the International Space Station (ISS).

Between 2011 and 2014, the Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) community has seen an 11 percent net reduction in its workforce — more than twice the five percent agency-wide average.  

Tom Magliozzi, the elder of “Click and Clack: The Tappet Brothers” of NPR’s Car Talk, recently died, and the Internet has not been consistent with one of his most famous quotes.

How can NASA capture, share, and leverage its wealth of lessons learned to enhance the effectiveness of future work? Two Chief Knowledge Officers explored the issue.

The latest hit song by the Counting Crows (after a six-year gap) now rides the airway, and in one line of its Beatlesque word associating imagery, Adam Duritz jubilantly sings a verse, launching with a bracing “Spaceman!” and ending with a crooning “Geronimo!”

NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO), NASA Knowledge Points of Contact, and project and program practitioners are all coming together for a unique knowledge sharing and problem solving event at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), October 21st – 23rd, 2014.

When NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) Ed Hoffman travels to NASA centers in support of APPEL project management and engineering courses, he often partners with the local CKO to facilitate a segment on finding knowledge at NASA.

There are actually several Tom and Jerry cartoons in which Jerry (the mouse) rescues a goldfish from Tom (the cat).  Inevitably, in one of these episodes, a fish bowl filled with water descends upon Tom’s head only to encase it.  

On September 5, 2014, the Department of Transportation (DOT) hosted the 16th Meeting of the Federal Knowledge Community (FKMC) for a special meeting featuring the Project Management Institute’s President and CEO, Mark Langley.