They’ve completed their reorganization to ramp up launch activity. But I thought they were going to be restored to their own office reporting to the SecDOT? Is that not happening?
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They’ve completed their reorganization to ramp up launch activity. But I thought they were going to be restored to their own office reporting to the SecDOT? Is that not happening?
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The new organization has some nice features from 30,000 feet, along with some surprises and one real head-scratcher down in the details. Lirio Liu is a real catch, but why wouldn’t she be in charge of the Office of Strategic Management? She was head of rulemaking for the whole FAA, fer goshsakes. AST has never had any clout with the rulemaking people, and we couldn’t get anything on the docket for years (the Agency has a limit to the number of rules it can work on in any given year, and AST just always seemed to on the other side of that limit). Strikes me that having Lirio be their face to the rulemaking mafia might change that.
Pam Underwood as Director of the Office of Spaceports is a ten strike. And though it’s good to see that Paul Wilde is still Chief Engineer, it’s strange that the Office of the Chief Engineer is no longer part of the org chart.
I imagine that there are undoubtedly some disappointed people there. But it looks functional.
Wayne Monteith has a bit of a sense of humor. Having the place split into AS”A” and AS”Z” is a cute way of presenting the idea of a “one stop shop,” which is what AST always strove to be.