Wow! Winning. I know Griffin. This is an excellent choice. One of Griffin’s early actions as NASA director was to fire the heads of the NASA centers when they decided that they could operate independently, each pursuing his own agenda, that they need not support a coherent mission, and that Congress would protect them. Well, Congress didn’t, couldn’t and actually did not care when he did.
It was an obvious necessary reform that just took the guts to do it.
just how much say does a “principal deputy undersecretary” of X have in the scheme of things and the Pentagon?