http://www.nasa.gov/, created July 1958 from the former NACA
Administrator, Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr., USMC ret. http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/bolden_bio.html
Deputy Administrator, Lori B. Garver http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/garver_bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA and http://www.answers.com/topic/nasa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Administrators_of_NASA and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deputy_Administrators_of_NASA
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NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division http://www.nas.nasa.gov/, Chief Rupak Biswas
” The NAS Division set a new standard with the installation of Pleiades, one of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Pleiades ranks high on the Green500 supercomputer list at #22, based on computational efficiency—and when combining energy efficiency and computational power, Pleiades comes in at #2 (233 megaflops per watt) among the world’s general-purpose supercomputersThe NAS Division set a new standard with the installation of Pleiades, one of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Pleiades ranks high on the Green500 supercomputer list at #22, based on computational efficiency—and when combining energy efficiency and computational power, Pleiades comes in at #2 (233 megaflops per watt) among the world’s general-purpose supercomputersThe NAS Division set a new standard with the installation of Pleiades, one of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Pleiades ranks high on the Green500 supercomputer list at #22, based on computational efficiency—and when combining energy efficiency and computational power, Pleiades comes in at #2 (233 megaflops per watt) among the world’s general-purpose supercomputers.”
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The JPL formally became an Army facility in 1944, managed by CalTech, and was transferred to NASA upon its creation in 1958. The campus in Flintridge/Pasadena covers 177 acres.
On August 30, 2007, a group of JPL employees filed suit in federal court against NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce, claiming their Constitutional rights were being violated by new background investigations. Employees were told that if they did not sign an unlimited waiver of privacy [4], they would be deemed to have “voluntarily resigned”[5]. Ostensibly, the rebadging rules were designed to make JPL compliant with FIPS 201. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found the process violated the employees’ privacy rights and has issued a preliminary injunction vOn August 30, 2007, a group of JPL employees filed suit in federal court against NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce, claiming their Constitutional rights were being violated by new background investigations. Employees were told that if they did not sign an unlimited waiver of privacy [4], they would be deemed to have “voluntarily resigned”[5]. Ostensibly, the rebadging rules were designed to make JPL compliant with FIPS 201. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found the process violated the employees’ privacy rights and has issued a preliminary injunction [from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPL]
NASA scientists caught in ‘sting’ selling secrets to the ‘Mossad’ http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2009/12/02/the-israel-lobby-celebrates-espionage-in-new-york
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Pasadena, California, managed for NASA by CalTech
JPL Director and Vice-Pres of CalTech Charles Elachi http://jpl.nasa.gov/bios/elachi and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory “The laboratory’s primary function is the construction and operation of robotic planetary spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit [near space] and astronomy missions; JPL operates NASA’s ‘Deep Space Network’
current projects:
Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn
Mars Exploration Rovers
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Spitzer Space Telescope http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media.releases/ssc2003-03
Climate http://www.climate.nasa.gov/missions
JPL Artificial Intelligence Group http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/
JPL http://www.photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
Hubble Space Telescope http://www.hubble.nasa.gov/
California Institute of Technology http://www.caltech.edu/ motto: “and the truth shall make you free” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology 
President of CalTech, Jean-Lou Chameau
National Reconnaissance Office , Intelligence/spy satellites – NASA partner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office and http://www.answers.com/topic/national-reconnaissance-office Chantilly, VirginiaNASA was created on July 29, 1958 (under Eisenhower) from a former agency called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics which was formed as an expedient for flight development prior to WWI in 1915. Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France had existing mirror agencies before the Americans.
[wikipedia source] “The enabling legislation for the NACA slipped through almost unnoticed as a rider attached to the Naval Appropriation Bill of March 1915.”
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Special Committee on Space Technology (mtg.1958)
Office of the Administrator
Administrator: Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
Deputy Administrator: Lori B. Garver
Associate Administrator: Christopher Scolese
Chief of Staff: David Radzanowski
Associate Deputy Administrator: Charles H. Scales
Assistant Associate Administrator: Christyl Johnson
White House Liaison/Deputy Chief of Staff: David Noble
Advisory Groups
NASA Advisory Council (NAC)
Chairman: Dr. Kenneth Ford
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP)
Chairman: Vice Admiral Joe Dyer USN, (Ret)
Office of the Inspector General
Inspector General: Paul K. Martin
Administrator Staff Offices
Chief Financial Officer / Agency Chief Acquisition Officer: Elizabeth Robinson
Chief Information Officer: Linda Cureton
Chief Scientist: Vacant
Chief Technologist: Robert D. Braun
Innovative Partnerships Program: Douglas Comstock
Chief Engineer: Michael Ryschkewitsch
Chief Health and Medical Officer: Richard Williams
Chief, Safety and Mission Assurance: Bryan O’Connor
Independent Program and Cost Evaluation
Associate Administrator: W. Michael Hawes
Diversity and Equal Opportunity:
Associate Administrator: Brenda Manuel
Education:
Associate Administrator: James Stofan (Acting)
International and Interagency Relations:
Associate Administrator: Michael F. O’Brien
General Counsel: Michael Wholley
Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs:
Associate Administrator: L. Seth Statler
Office of Communications
Associate Administrator: David Weaver
Small Business Programs:
Associate Administrator: Glenn Delgado
Mission Directorates
Aeronautics Research
Associate Administrator: Jaiwon Shin
Exploration Systems
Associate Administrator: Douglas Cooke
Science
Associate Administrator: Ed Weiler
Space Operations
Associate Administrator: William Gerstenmaier
Mission Support Offices
Mission Support Directorate
Associate Administrator: Woodrow Whitlow
Human Capital Management:
Assistant Administrator: Toni Dawsey
Strategic Infrastructure:
Assistant Administrator: Olga Dominguez
Headquarters Operations:
Executive Director: Chris Jedrey
NASA Shared Services Center:
Executive Director: Richard Arbuthnot
Agency Operations
Assistant Administrator: Tom Luedtke
Internal Controls and Management Systems:
Assistant Administrator: Lou Becker
Procurement:
Assistant Administrator: Bill McNally
Protective Services:
Assistant Administrator: Jack Forsythe
NASA Management Office:
Director: Dr. Trinh
