WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin, the agency's longest serving administrator, is expected to announce his resignation today at 2 p.m. No announcement has been made about his replacement.
According to sources, Goldin will leave the agency in mid-November and become a Senior Fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington-based non-profit organization.
According to its Web site, the Council on Competitiveness was created in 1986 to foster technological innovation, workforce development and to benchmark U.S. economic performance against other countries.
The organization is guided by a 30-member Executive Committee and has a staff of 16 people who provide research and operational support. "Chief executives from 50 of the country's most prominent nonprofit research organizations, professional societies and trade associations contribute their expertise as national affiliates of the Council," according to the Web site.
Goldin has been NASA's administrator since April 1992 and is credited with pushing the agency to streamline its operations with an approach that became known as "better, faster, cheaper."
No replacement has been announced.
