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<div align="center"><font size=2><b>Seminar in Space Policy and
Society<br>
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<div align="center"><b><i>Where Bucks Meet Buck Rogers: The OMB-NASA
Relationship<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2>Amy Kaminski<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2>NASA Program Examiner<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2>Office of Management and Budget<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2>Executive Office of the President<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2><b>March 19, 2008<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2><b>5:00-7:00pm<br>
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<div align="center"><font size=2><b>Room 33-116<br>
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<font size=2><b>Abstract</b>: Former Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Deputy Director Paul O'Neill once said: "One of the
interesting things about OMB is that it is unexplainable to everyone who
lives outside of the Beltway and misunderstood by nearly everyone who
lives inside of the Beltway." OMB program examiner Amy Kaminski will
seek to dispel the mystery that shrouds the White House's budget
organization and eludicate its involvement in NASA budget and policy
issues. The talk will address the role of OMB within the federal
government and the process through which federal funding decisions get
made, with an emphasis on how NASA has ranked within the Bush
Administration's budget and policy priorities. <br>
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<font size=2><b>Biography</b>: A NASA program examiner at the Office of
Management and Budget, Ms. Kaminski provides objective analysis of NASA
programs and makes budget and policy recommendations to policy officials
during the formulation of the annual budget request sent to Congress. She
is responsible for NASA’s space and Earth science programs, education
programs, innovative partnership programs, and strategic planning.<br>
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<font size=2>Before joining OMB, Ms. Kaminski served in the Federal
Aviation Administration’s Office of the Associate Administrator for
Commercial Space Transportation as a space transportation analyst.
Prior to joining FAA, she was policy and outreach administrator at the
National Space Society. She is former editor of the American
Astronautical Society’s</font><i> <font size=2>Space Times</i></font>
<font size=2>magazine.<br>
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<font size=2>Ms. Kaminski earned her master’s degree in Science,
Technology, and Public Policy from George Washington University. She
graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Cornell
University in Earth and Planetary Sciences. She serves currently as
Vice President for Professional Development of Women in Aerospace. She
has written several articles on space policy and history topics and is
co-editor and chapter author of NASA’s</font><i> <font size=2>Exploring
the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space
Program, Volume V: Exploring the Cosmos</i>.</font></blockquote></body>
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