Eric Berger describes potential changes in policy in a Trump administration. Not sure why they would consolidate Goddard and Ames in Huntsville. This would also make it inconvenient for Goddard to work with APL at Johns Hopkins.
Eric Berger describes potential changes in policy in a Trump administration. Not sure why they would consolidate Goddard and Ames in Huntsville. This would also make it inconvenient for Goddard to work with APL at Johns Hopkins.
Why does the work at Ames need to be done in California? In fact, what are they actually doing these days?
They may still do wind-tunnel work there. And its proximity to Silicon Valley was helpful in nurturing public/private partnerships (e.g., Planetlabs), at least when Worden was there.
From what we were hearing (and seeing with our own eyes), Goddard is moving (per Project 2040) from Integration and Test – OSAM cancelled and RST last big project left – to a more environmental studies center. Most of the work is moving to the scientists, mainly having them manufacture small instruments that will be launched to study mostly Earth. Sucks to see all those I&T jobs leaving.