I just think we are going to need to be patient -- and (via a close review, by the below-expert panel) be sure that Northrop Grumman isn't engaging in wasteful spending, on an admittedly vast, and very complex. . . government contract. [This post updates this one.]
Here is a bit from last Friday's NASA press announcement:
. . . .The Independent Review Board review process will take approximately eight weeks. . . . NASA will review those findings and then provide its assessment in a report to Congress at the end of June 2018. . . . Members of the board:
Mr. Thomas Young, NASA/Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, Maryland – Retired (Chair)
Dr. William Ballhaus, Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California- Retired
Mr. Steve Battel, Battel Engineering, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona
Mr. Orlando Figueroa, NASA Headquarters and Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland – Retired
Dr. Fiona Harrison, Caltech University in Pasadena, California
Ms. Michele King, NASA Office of Chief Financial Officer/Strategic Investments Division in Washington, DC
Mr. Paul McConnaughey, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center/Webb Standing Review Board (Chair) in Huntsville, Alabama
Ms. Dorothy Perkins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - Retired
Mr. Pete Theisinger, Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
Dr. Maria Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. . . .
Indeed -- that's a top flight review roster.
It is. . . surreal -- here at the noon hour, as a hard pelting hail is now falling on top of about an inch of earlier soft snow. [After the carnage in Syria, over the weekend, and 45's bellicose rhetoric, blaming 44, I thought this. . . apropos.] I'd mournfully ask. . . "Where have all the flowers gone. . ." long time passing. . . long time, ago(?)
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