>NASA is ultimately a science institution, I think diverting effort away from infrastructure management and towards studying data is likely a wise decision. Tr

>NASA is ultimately a science institution, I think diverting effort away from infrastructure management and towards studying data is likely a wise decision. True, but once you're a certain scale, outsourcing everything just because it's not your competency isn't a good excuse. You can afford to hire enough people for it to become your competency.