NASA Internal Memo: Aeronautics Associate Administrator Departs NASA for New Position

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Subject: Message from the Administrator – Jan. 9, 2008

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Message from the Administrator – Jan. 9, 2008: Aeronautics Associate Administrator Departs NASA for New Position

Today it was announced that Dr. Lisa Porter, the associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, has accepted an offer to be the first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).

Lisa started with NASA in October 2005. Within 60 days, she developed an aeronautics restructuring plan that focused the directorate’s efforts on fundamental research, aligned with the nation’s Next Generation Air Transportation System, and supported the agency’s space exploration goals. She managed the migration of the directorate to the new structure over the next year, and then took on the challenge of helping to develop the nation’s first National Aeronautics Research and Development Policy and Plan. What she has managed to achieve in her short time at NASA is truly astounding.

Lisa Porter is the best of the best that NASA and this nation can offer. In the course of a 37- year career in the aerospace profession, I have served with no finer person. We will find a successor, but not a replacement, for her at our agency. She will be a key contributor to our nation’s community of intelligence professionals in her new position, and I wish her well.

Michael D. Griffin
Administrator

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