Lightfoot Confirms The Obvious (But Little Else) About NASA's Budget

Lightfoot: NASA Budget Still in Formulation, "Confident" of Administration Support, SpacePolicy.com

"In a memo entitled "Update on Budget Process," Lightfoot explained that the process for formulating the FY2018 budget request to Congress is later than usual because of the presidential transition, but the timing is "not unusual during a transition year." The deliberations are "not yet at a point" where sufficient details can be shared other than what is already known publicly -- the President plans to increase defense spending by $54 billion and decrease it for non-defense spending by the same amount. NASA is part of non-defense spending."

- Heads Up NASA People: A Storm Is Coming, earlier post
- Collective Denial At Planetary Science: Vision 2050 Workshop, earlier post
- NASA Budget News Is Not Good, earlier post

#NASA has no space policy - so the coming big budget cuts to @NASA will drive what becomes space policy i.e. what to do with what's left. — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 28, 2017

Sources report that #NASA response to budget OMB sent them was not good. @NASA was supposed to send passback (response) to OMB today. — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 28, 2017

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