Workforce Directive: Restoring NASA’s Core Competencies
NASA Watch • • technology
Key Points:
- NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has issued a workforce directive aimed at restoring NASA’s core competencies by reducing over-reliance on contractors and increasing the civil servant workforce in engineering, operations, and scientific roles.
- The directive mandates assessments within 30 days to identify outsourced critical work and propose roles to bring in-house, followed by a 60-day plan to develop transition strategies, rapid onboarding processes, and strengthen talent pipelines through training and internships.
- NASA will incorporate right-to-repair provisions in contracts to ensure internal access to necessary technical documentation and remove restrictive clauses that hinder NASA’s ability to perform repairs and redesigns independently.
- The initiative seeks to save approximately $1.4 billion annually by reducing inefficiencies caused by excessive contractor layers and aims to rebuild
