Pete (and Shana Dale) interviewed by Wired
Wired magazine’s blog has an interview with Shana Dale and Simon “Pete” Worden (our Center director.)
It’s an interesting and important read on the future of Ames.
Key excerpt:
With respect, that’s always been a real challenge with kind of allocation within NASA of both resources and personnel. The centers tend to be—tend to have political consequences around them too. Do all the centers still meet all of the needs of what NASA’s supposed to be doing?
DALE: Well, yeah, because they all have unique skills that they bring to the table. So, we’re not having any types of discussions about restructuring the centers.
Right.
WORDEN: We evolve the center expertise. So as IT becomes more and more important, for example, at this center that we’re building up our IT capabilities. I don’t try to do big rocket engines here. But it’s an evolutionary effort. Ten years ago, IT wasn’t nearly as importants. So, it’s a changing thing. So I think, like a division of a major corporation, that we have certain things we focus on.