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Those numbers are taken from NASA itself, they have links to the size of their operations nasapeople.nasa.gov
by valarauca1 13y ago
Those numbers are taken from NASA itself, they have links to the size of their operations nasapeople.nasa.gov
- mcguire 13y agoDo you mean this: https://wicn.nssc.nasa.gov/c10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=powerPlayService&m_encoding=UTF-8&BZ=1AAABgNNr_f942m2PQWuDQBCF~8yOaS9hdlTUgwd1DRHamEahZ6NjCTFuUFOaf981KYTSzu7wHm__gV2ryJdFme~STIXjpAfO1BMQHSShS5TK2I89x~NXsYt24AfKd4Mg8mLHMM~WvJtGu2S9jcp1CLSqdT9xPxnX6q7hAdwYHOyrE4OtFttBt4eOgTC57HlcgKsMea7qY~XBv9F3PRxbPdQz~LM245YqkmWSbzZpUmZGotc0~Ae14rewRRQSEaVEIQQKFwWhmI8QUdcZOD2dO31lHgGDvDeBukxXI0DtPP0yP2m4MfaFq082kADygWwDsATaAwX3QD4C8afk7c7m~qBbP_obQJNj2A%3D%3D https://wicn.nssc.nasa.gov/c10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_act... (Aaahhhhhh! Cognos! Aaahhhhhhh!) I don't have a good source for the number of contractors, other than wikipedia. (...which cites http://employeeorientation.nasa.gov/contractors/default.htm http://employeeorientation.nasa.gov/contractors/default.htm. Huh.)
- tanzam75 13y ago> (Aaahhhhhh! Cognos! Aaahhhhhhh!) Aha! Now we know where NASA's IT budget went -- to IBM. IBM specializes in making sure that you spend your full IT budget each year, so that upper management isn't tempted to cut it next year.
- valarauca1 13y agoYes but IBM also makes very damn reliable mainframes, also z-series can emulate system360's, which NASA had quiet a few of (the last one wasn't decommissioned until 2010). So likely to maintain payroll or tax data they kept IBM.