Roy D. Bridges Jr., the newly appointed director of the Langley center, said the engineering and safety group would be the technical arm of an independent engineering authority to be established at the recommendation of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
In addressing other recommendations made by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, Mr. O'Keefe said that rather than creating a separate engineering authority to oversee space flight safety he preferred using organizations within NASA or already existing outside groups.
The in-service engineering authority manages the in-service build and design standards.
Earlier this year, John Bohannon wrote at ScienceInsider, Egypt's engineering authority announced a device it said could remotely detect viral infections including, oddly, malaria, which is not viral.
In Spanish Autonomous Communities, the regional environmental authority is responsible for RFPs while the regional civil engineering authority is responsible for the land planning programmes.
The success or failure of NASA's human spaceflight programs are linked to organizational management based on dynamics between centralized aspects of management, like controls over cost and schedule, and decentralized aspects, such as engineering authority over technical development.
And the Fisa court acquiesced, reverse-engineering statutory authority for the very government surveillance program that was already underway.
The first decades of the 20th century were a time of extensive social engineering as municipal authorities, influenced by new currents in eugenics and city planning, attacked what they took to be the sources of urban disorder.
The physical, geotechnical and chemical properties of these construction and demolition materials were compared with local engineering and water authorities specifications for typical quarried materials so as to assess their performance as a viable substitute for virgin quarried aggregates in pipe backfilling applications.
