Organization: HQ

By Joan Pallix So Why Develop Control Technologies in the First Place?

By Kenneth J. Szalai Risk management process is a front-burner topic in all aircraft and spacecraft communities.

By Lynda Rutledge There are certain things that happen to you during your career that end up being the ultimate learning experiences.

By Bob Loesh I joined the Viking project in its early days in 1971 as the Orbiter Software System Engineer and stayed on board through several months after launch.

By Dr. Alexander Laufer Today’s fast-changing projects call for managers to be highly responsive to the unexpected — those surprises that can alter the course of a well-laid plan

By Ed Hoffman Culture [is] a pattern of basic assumptions — invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration — that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way […]

By Denise Lee The first issue of ASK Magazine was released in January 2001, the brainchild of Dr. Edward Hoffman and Dr. Alexander Laufer.

  Since being tapped by NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe to head the team analyzing the findings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), your name has been associated with the agency’s efforts to make needed changes. What was the charter of the “Diaz Team” in addressing the CAIB report?

By John Casani I first came to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 48 years ago, and was taught that what’s most important for project success is bringing good people on board, getting them to come together as a team, making certain that they’re all on the same page, and setting up the mechanisms to keep […]