Thomas Young, chairman of the Independent Management and Cost Evaluation (IMCE) Task Force, will hold a press conference on November 2nd to discuss their findings regarding budget and management challenges facing the International Space Station. The IMCE Task Force was formed in July by the Office of Management and Budget and NASA Advisory Council to examine the space station project. Copies of the IMCE report will be available at the press conference and online after 2pm EST. On November 6th, the IMCE will present their findings to the NASA Advisory Council, which decided to receive the report early to allow NASA time to incorporate recommendations into its 2003 budget.
Thomas Young, chairman of the Independent Management and Cost Evaluation (IMCE) Task Force, will hold a press conference on November 2nd to discuss their findings regarding budget and management challenges facing the International Space Station. The IMCE Task Force was formed in July by the Office of Management and Budget and NASA Advisory Council to examine the space station project. Copies of the IMCE report will be available at the press conference and online after 2pm EST. On November 6th, the IMCE will present their findings to the NASA Advisory Council, which decided to receive the report early to allow NASA time to incorporate recommendations into its 2003 budget.
Thomas Young, chairman of the Independent Management and Cost Evaluation (IMCE) Task Force, will hold a press conference on November 2nd to discuss their findings regarding budget and management challenges facing the International Space Station. The IMCE Task Force was formed in July by the Office of Management and Budget and NASA Advisory Council to examine the space station project. Copies of the IMCE report will be available at the press conference and online after 2pm EST. On November 6th, the IMCE will present their findings to the NASA Advisory Council, which decided to receive the report early to allow NASA time to incorporate recommendations into its 2003 budget.
Thomas Young, chairman of the independent blue-ribbon
task force charged with examining the budget and management challenges facing the International Space Station, will meet with reporters in Washington to discuss his efforts.
Young led the Independent Management and Cost Evaluation
(IMCE) Task Force formed in July by the Office of Management and Budget and the NASA Advisory Council to look at the space station project.
The press conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. EST on Friday,
Nov. 2, in the main auditorium of NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW, Washington, D.C., 20546. The event will be carried live on NASA Television with question-and-answer capability from participating NASA field centers.
Young, a former president and Chief Operations Officer at
Martin Marietta Corp., managed numerous complex and technically challenging programs for government as well as private industry. He recently led the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team which reviewed NASA's approach to robotic exploration.
Copies of the IMCE report will be available at the press
conference and can be found on the Internet after 2 p.m. EST at:
NASA Television is available on GE-2, Transponder 9C at 85
degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 3880 MHz and audio of 6.8 MHz.
The IMCE, made up of a diverse team of world-renowned
experts, including two Nobel laureates, presents its findings to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Tuesday, Nov. 6. That meeting is open to the public and will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST in room 9H40 at NASA Headquarters.
Due to the important nature of the report, the NAC decided to
receive the IMCE's findings before its regularly scheduled meeting in December. The NAC wanted to discuss the IMCE findings as soon as possible, to give the Agency time to incorporate its recommendations into the 2003 fiscal year budget request, and to facilitate continued congressional consideration of funding issues regarding the space station project..
Because increased security measures are in place at NASA
Headquarters, please contact Kathy Dakon at 202/358-0732 if you plan to attend the meeting of the NASA Advisory Council. Do not contact Dakon about the Nov. 2 press conference.
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