"President Bush on Friday nominated Dr. Michael D. Griffin, a physicist and engineer who is a strong advocate of human space flight, to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as it tries to revive the shuttle program and return humans to the moon.
Dr. Griffin, who is head of the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has held numerous posts in the aerospace industry and was president and chief operating officer of In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment organization sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as the deputy for technology at the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and worked on missile defense systems from 1986 to 1991...
In April 2004, Dr. Griffin took his current post as head of the space department at the Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he had worked in the early 1980's. In 1986, he joined the Pentagon's "Star Wars" program, which was aimed at developing a missile defense shield.
Dr. Griffin worked at NASA from 1991 to 1994 before moving on to posts in private industry, going to Orbital Science Corporation in Dulles, Va. He also worked for Computer Science Corporation in El Segundo, Calif.
As a top official at In-Q-Tel, he helped invest about $45 million a year in federal money in projects including software and other technology designed to sort massive quantities of data like intercepted e-mail messages and satellite images."
Computer Sciences Corporation? Hmmm... that sounds familiar.
Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) today announced that the company has completed its acquisition of DynCorp...
And where else... ah, I know: "The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center awards its new Onsite Technical Support Services Contract to Computer Sciences Corporation with EG&G as its Major Teaming Partner...
EG&G, headquartered in the Washington, DC area, is a leading provider of technical and support services to the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, Transportation, Treasury, Justice, and Commerce and to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The company, which is wholly owned by the Carlyle Group, employs 4,200 people worldwide."
I suppose if you're going to have Total Information Awareness, it pays to have the guys who run the computer systems run the satellites, too.
And it must be nice to have somebody like DynCorp around to do the dirty work.
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I was startled to see that NASA visited me yesterday morning. Straight for the we already have a plan for Social Security post.
If things get any wierder, I will start to wonder about the "suits" that went way out of their way to lie to me last week.
No offense intended, but could you please explain what your post means, granny?
It's a little incoherent.
Like I'm one to talk.
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