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4 CommentsDaniel Schumacher named director of key NASA Marshall Center office
"Prior to accepting his new position, Schumacher was deputy project manager of Marshall's Lunar Lander Project Office from 2007 to 2008. He led a team of more than 60 civil service and contractor employees and directed an annual technology budget of more than $60 million to develop hardware and integrated systems for crewed moon landings in coming decades."
Editor's note: Please tell me why a guy who runs an overtly engineering/mission oriented activity is suddenly put in charge of a policy office like this? Where is the press release about the person who is replacing him in his previous position?
Perhaps because policy positions across the board (gov't) LACK engineering perspectives, and are way over dominated by legal types?? Believe me, the whole topic of science/technology/industrial policy as it relates to technology transfer was the original topic of my dissertation - which I chucked because the whole field is run by lawyers who have no concept of tech generation. I'm happy to see them put an engineer (and an Industrial Engineer at that) as a policy lead.