Administrator Michael Griffin of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration has appointed
two new senior advisors on his management team and
several others to the agency’s administrative staff.
Dr. Lisa J. Porter, formerly a senior scientist in
the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, where she was
program manager for projects focusing on the
application of advanced computational fluid dynamics,
has been appointed as senior advisor for aeronautics
in the Office of the Administrator.
Michael P. Ralsky, formerly an associate director
for the White House Office of Presidential Personnel,
will join the agency as senior advisor to the agency’s
deputy administrator, where he will help manage
day-to-day operations, initiatives and affiliations,
according to NASA.
It said acting associate administrator Rex Geveden
has been appointed associate administrator, where he
will continue to have oversight for all the agency’s
technical missions’ areas and field center
operations – and be responsible for programmatic
integration between NASA’s mission directorates
and field centers.
William H. Gerstenmaier, program manager of the
International Space Station Office at NASA’s Johnson
Space Center in Houston, has been appointed associate
administrator for Space Operations at NASA
Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced.
It said Gerstenmaier named Michael T. Suffredini
as manager of the International Space Station
Program, where he has been serving as deputy
program manager since August 2004.
NASA said Brian Chase would serve as the agency’s
new assistant administrator for Legislative
Affairs, leaving his post as vice president of
Washington Operations for the Space Foundation.
Mary Cleave, Ph.D., P.E., former director of NASA’s
Earth-Sun System Division in the Science Mission
Directorate and veteran of two shuttle flights,
will take on the role of associate administrator
for the Science Mission Directorate, the agency said.
It also announced that Colleen Hartman, Ph.D., a
senior program executive and scientist for more
than 24 years, would take on the role of deputy
associate administrator for the Science Mission
Directorate.