O'Keefe Bio (old but 'interesting')

Somewhere on the net

[boris]

Biography
Mr. Sean O'Keefe

Mr. O'Keefe is Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget. As the first deputy cabinet officer appointed in the Bush Administration, Mr. O'Keefe oversees the preparation, management and administration of the Federal budget and government wide management initiatives across the Executive Branch.

Prior to his current appointment, he was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy, an endowed chair, at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also served as the Director of National Security Studies, a partnership of Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University for delivery of executive education programs for senior military and civilian Department of Defense managers.

Mr. O'Keefe was appointed Secretary of the Navy in July 1992 and served as Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense since 1989.

Mr. O'Keefe was also a staff member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations for eight years, and served as Staff Director of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. He is the author of several journal articles, contributing author of Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future, and co-author of The Defense Industry in the Post-Cold War Era: Corporate Strategies and Public Policy Perspectives. Mr. O'Keefe earned his B.A. in 1977 from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his M.P.A. in 1978 from The Maxwell School.

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[boris]

Notice the guy in charge of NASA is an accountant and has no engineering or scientific background.

[Frank_Discussion]

Some of NASA's most productive and exciting years were under the direction of James Webb, also an accountant.

[boris]

"Some of NASA's most productive and exciting years were under the direction of James Webb, also an accountant."

Oh yes, Webb and his Mormon Mafia, which made sure Thiokol's bad design "won" the competition for the SRBs, thus sealing the fate of the Challenger crew...and rejected the idea of (a) an escape system and (b) a superior and safer SRB design by Aerojet (or was it UTC?).

Other than that, he was a fine young murderer. HE and his cronies should have spent time at hard labor, given Challenger.

--Boris