Comment by stonogo

My point is that slashing the budget will not result in meaningful management changes, just a reduction in services.

"Reporting to NASA" and "being part of NASA" are two different situations. AURA, which runs STScI and thereby JWST, reports to more than just NASA. It's an international project, so the consortium of universities that comprise AURA reports to multiple agencies. The fact that you think this is fundamentally identical to internal NASA culture tells me you're not qualified to ascertain the level of my political information.

STScI is not working in a NASA building, they're operating out of Johns Hopkins. I've consulted for this organization a half dozen times, and I've consulted for NASA Goddard as well, and I am telling you they are not the same.

What I meant by the sound bite reference is that there is not any meaningful insight being brought to the work DOGE is doing. They're doing keyword searches and sorting by total contract spend and binning anything whose title would make a good Twitter post. We saw all this before from Ross Perot.