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NASA Internal Memo: NASA Names Agency Security Office Assistant Administrator

By SpaceRef Editor
September 20, 2008
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Subject: NASA Names Agency Security Office Assistant Administrator
From: Centerwide Announcement
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008

NASA Names Agency Security Office Assistant Administrator

Jack L. Forsythe has been named NASA’s assistant administrator of the Office of Security and Program Protection at Headquarters in Washington. He has been serving as the interim chief since earlier this year.

As the assistant administrator for Security and Program Protection, Forsythe is responsible for ensuring the protection of NASA employees, missions and property worldwide. He also serves as the senior security, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism advisor to the NASA administrator.

Prior to joining Headquarters, Forsythe was the chief of security at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where his organization provided a wide range of protective services, such as law enforcement; criminal investigations; technical, physical, information, and personnel security; and counterintelligence to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va., the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the White Sands Complex in New Mexico, and the Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, W.Va.

Forsythe began his law enforcement career with the Prince George’s County Police Department in Maryland, retiring as a major after 23 years of service. He holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, both in Baltimore. He also is a graduate of the Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard University.

For more information about NASA’s Office of Security and Program Protection, visit: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ospp

SpaceRef staff editor.