[Sci-tech-public] March 19th Seminar on Space Policy and Society: The NASA budget, "Where Bucks Meets Buck Rogers"

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>Seminar in Space Policy and Society
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>Where Bucks Meet Buck Rogers: The OMB-NASA Relationship
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>Amy Kaminski
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>NASA Program Examiner
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>Office of Management and Budget
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>Executive Office of the President
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>March 19, 2008
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>5:00-7:00pm
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>Room 33-116
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>Abstract: 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.
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>Biography: 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.
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>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 Space Times magazine.
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>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 Exploring the Unknown: Selected 
>Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume V: 
>Exploring the Cosmos.
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