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David Mould
Headquarters, Washington
Phone: 202-358-1898/1400
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Jan. 9, 2008
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RELEASE: 08-002
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AERONAUTICS ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR DEPARTS NASA FOR NEW POSITION
WASHINGTON - Lisa J. Porter, NASA's associate administrator of the
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, announced Wednesday her
decision to leave the agency, effective Feb. 1. Porter is leaving NASA
to become the first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research
Projects Activity.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin expressed his appreciation for
Porter's service since she was selected to head the aeronautics
directorate in October 2005.
"Lisa Porter is the best of the best that NASA and this nation can
offer," Griffin said. "In the course of a 37-year career in the
aerospace profession, I have served with no finer person. We will find a
successor, but not a replacement, for her at our agency. She will be a
key contributor to our nation's community of intelligence professionals
in her new position, and I wish her well."
In announcing her decision, Porter thanked her colleagues for their
support.
"While I am very excited about this new opportunity, I am of course
saddened by the thought of having to say goodbye to each of you," Porter
said. "I am confident that you will all continue to excel and make the
nation and the world stand up and take notice of the first 'A' in
'NASA.'"
As the associate administrator for the Aeronautics Mission Directorate,
Porter managed the agency's aeronautics research portfolio and guided
its strategic direction, which includes research in the fundamental
aeronautics of flight, aviation safety and the nation's airspace system.
Porter co-chairs the National Science & Technology Council's
Aeronautics, Science and Technology Subcommittee. Comprised of federal
departments and agencies that fund aeronautics-related research, the
subcommittee wrote the nation's first presidential policy for
aeronautics research and development.
Porter came to NASA following her service as a senior scientist in the
Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency. While there, she created and managed programs in diverse
technical areas ranging from fundamental scientific research to
multi-disciplinary systems-level development and integration efforts.
Porter has a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a doctorate in applied
physics from Stanford University. She was a lecturer and postdoctoral
research associate at MIT. She received the Alpha Nu Sigma MIT Student
Chapter Outstanding Teaching Award in 1996. Porter has authored more
than 25 publications in a broad range of technical disciplines,
including nuclear engineering, solar physics, plasma physics,
computational materials modeling, explosives detection and vibration
control of flexible structures.
For more information about NASA and its programs, visit the Web at:
http://www.nasa.gov
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