Rising housing costs in the San Francisco Bay Area make it hard for NASA Ames Research Center to attract and retain top scientists and engineers, because the federal pay scales require NASA to follow hard caps. US Rep John Culberson, the chairman of the House subcommittee that sets NASA's annual budget, is the latest to raise the possibility of involving local universities in running Ames, and possibly other NASA centers, in a manner similar to the way the California Institute of Technology manages NASA's jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena CA. JPL is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), operated for NASA by Caltech. The FFRDC arrangement gives JPL freedom to establish a competitive pay scale.
Former directors chime in on private management for NASA Ames
Aerospace America ; 54 , 6
2016
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