Bhavya LAl appointed as the acting chief of staff of NASA.
Key sentence:
- Indian-American Bhavya Lal was named as the Acting Chief for Staff of the US Aerospace Agency by NASA.
- NASA said that Lal brings comprehensive engineering as well as space technology expertise, serving to be a member of the research team.
On Monday, Indian-American Bhavya Lal was named as the Acting Chief for Staff of the US Aerospace Agency by NASA.
Lal worked as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Evaluation Committee for the agency as well as oversaw the restructuring of the agency throughout President Joe Biden’s administration.
As NASA stated in their statement:
In a statement, NASA said that Lal brings comprehensive engineering as well as space technology expertise, serving to be a member of the research team at the Science and Technology Policy Institute for Defense Analysis (STPI) from 2005 to 2020.
Lal is an active member of the space technology and policy group:
For the White House Department of Science and Technology Policy as well as the National Space Council, and also for federal space-oriented agencies, such NASA, the Departments of Defence, and also the intelligence community, she led the study of space technology, strategy, as well as policy.
Having chaired, co-chaired, either served on five high-impact National Academy of Science committees, Lal is also an active member of the space technology and policy group.
Lal served two consecutive terms:
She completed two consecutive roles on the Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Satellite Sensing of the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Administration and also was a member of the External Board of the Creative Advanced Concepts Project of NASA as well as the NASA Advisory Council Science, Innovation and Engineering Advisory Panel.
Lal was president of C-STPS LLC:
Lal was chairman of C-STPS LLC, a science and technology policy analysis as well as consultancy firm before joining STPI. Leading up to that, she has been the director of Abt Associates’ Center for Science and Technology Policy Studies, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based international policy research consultant.
Further, said in their statement:
She co-founded and has been co-chair of the strategy track of the annual Nuclear as well as Emerging Technologies in Space (NETS) convention of the American Nuclear Community as well as co-organizes a seminar series with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum about space history as well as policy.
She was appointed and chosen to be a Corresponding Part of the International Academy of Astronautics with her many services to the space field, the statement says.
Some degrees of Lal:
Lal holds a Bachelor of Science and also a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of nuclear engineering, a Master of Science degree of technology and policy, as well as a PhD in public policy and public administration through the University of George Washington.
She is a representative of both the honour societies of nuclear engineering as well as public policy.
