Nasa makes one giant step for purchasing
28 August 2012
Nasa’s procurement function is at the forefront of a major effort to shake up the US space agency, the conference heard.
In the past, money had been no object for the publicly funded body, said Tom Luedtke, who leads procurement from its headquarters in Washington DC. But the agency was now billions of dollars in debt and urgently needed to get a grip on its costs.
A large proportion of Nasa’s operations are already outsourced. Up to 80 per cent of employees (mainly scientists and...