From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500 AM
By Jared Serbu
NASA’s administrator says his agency has taken significant steps to fix major problems with its oversight of foreign nationals who work inside the U.S. space program, following an external examination that found serious security lapses.
Under pressure from the agency’s congressional appropriators, led by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), NASA turned to the National Academy of Public Administration for an outside look at whether its security controls were adequate to prevent foreign nationals who have inside access from exfiltrating sensitive information.
Charles Bolden, the NASA administrator, told Congress last week that he agrees with all 27 recommendations the NAPA panel ultimately made, and that the agency is moving to implement all of them.
“NASA has established a foreign national access management program to strengthen our foreign national oversight, including efforts to ensure compliance with U.S. government export control policies,” he said. “I have repeatedly communicated the importance of the NAPA report and NASA’s corresponding actions to all of my senior managers. I am now in the process of visiting each of the NASA centers and underscoring the importance of security to our entire workforce, consistent with the report’s recommendations.”
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