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    <h1 align="center"><b>Kennedy Space Center Organizations</b></h1>

    Under the leadership of its director, KSC is managed

    by a system of directorates. The directorates and their functions are

    as follows: 

    <ul>

        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/KSCPAO/INTERNET/DIRECTOR/Welcome.htm">Office of the Director</u></B></A> - The Center Director manages

    the John F. Kennedy Space Center and the assigned programs and

    projects which are accomplished at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC),

    Florida; Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida; Vandenberg

    Air Force Base (VAFB), California; other NASA Centers; and Shuttle

    secondary landing sites. Serves as the NASA point of contact at CCAFS

    and VAFB.</li>

    <p>

        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/launch-team.html">Space Shuttle Program</u></B></A> - Responsible for the

    engineering management and technical direction of pre-flight, launch,

    landing and recovery activities for all space shuttle vehicles and

    integration of payloads.</li>

    <P>

        <li><B><U><a href="http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm">Public Affairs

    Office</a></B></U> - Is responsible for public information; media

    relations; aerospace education for grades K-12; Manned Flight

    Awareness activities; community relations; tours and briefings of

    distinguished visitors; guest activities for launches, landings, and

    special events; and the Kennedy Space Center visitor center, Spaceport

    U.S.A </li>

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        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/legal/newsletter/environment/">Chief Counsel</u></b></A> - The Chief Counsel provides professional

    legal counsel and assistance to the Center Director and KSC management

    officials.  The legal staff reviews communi- cations prepared for

    signature of the Center Director, counsels on procurement actions,

    provides advice and assistance to the U.S. Attorney in litigation

    matters involving KSC, processes claims for bodily injury and property

    damage, and reviews other matters for their possible legal

    implications.</li>

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        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig/hq/">NASA Office of the Inspector General</u></B></A> - The KSC OIG serves as an independent and objective audit and investigative organization to assist NASA by performing audits and investigations. The OIG prevents and detects fraud, waste and abuse and assists NASA management in promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in its programs and operations.</li>

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        <li><B><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/cio">Chief Information

    Officer</A></B> - the Center CIO will ensure an effective

    implementation of IT investment consistent with established Agency and

    Enterprise policies, goals, and standards; concur on all Center IT

    acquisitions to ensure regulatory, policy, and standards compliance;

    advise and counsel institutional, program and Center management on IT

    investments, and define and report metrics on Center IT

    investments. </li>

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**`    <li><B><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/admin">Administration`**

**`Office</A></B> - This office has Center responsibility for contractor`**

**`industrial relations; strategic planning and analysis activities; the`**

**`civil service workforce and position management program; the civil`**

**`service personnel program; internal control activities; continual`**

**`improvement activities; and management `**

**`overview and coordination of information services.</li>`**

**`<P>`**

        <li><B><U><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/procurement">Procurement

    Office</B></U></A> - This office has the overall Center responsibility for

    procurement, acquisition management, and contract management.</li>

    <P>

        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/finance/main.htm">Chief Financial Officer</u></B></A> - The NASA CFO Council has been

    established to improve financial and resources management, strengthen

    communications, improve coordination, and promote professional

    development. The Council is specifically directed to advise and

    coordinate the activities of the Agency on such matters as development

    and implementation of financial and budget systems, improved quality

    of financial and resources information, financial data and information

    standards, management controls, professional development standards,

    and any other matters that will facilitate financial and resources

    management excellence and related support for NASA's mission. </li>

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        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://atlas.ksc.nasa.gov/home.html">Biomedical Office</u></B></A> - The Biomedical Operations

    and Research Office (MD) is responsible for program management of the

    Center's aerospace and occupational medicine, life sciences research,

    and environmental health programs, and for operational management of

    life sciences support facilities.  MD is responsible for directing

    scientific research for space medicine, environmental quality, medical

    technology, human physiology, space biology, controlled environmental

    life support, and related life sciences topics.</li>

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        <li><B><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/payloads">Payload

    Processing</A></B> - The Payload Management and Operations Directorate is

    responsible for the direction and management of preflight assembly,

    test, checkout, documentation, and integration of Shuttle payload

    elements, payload carriers, and experiments, to include Space Station,

    Spacelab, automated payloads, Payload Assist Module, Inertial Upper

    Stage, and Levels II, III, and IV for Spacelab and special structures.

    The Payload Processing directorate is also responsible

    for the management and technical oversight of the preflight checkout

    operations on delegated expendable vehicles both at the Center and the

    30th Space Wing located at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA.</li>

    <P>

        <li><B><u>Payload Carriers Program</u></B></li>

    <P>

        <li><B><u>Equal Opportunity Office</u></B> - This office was established

    to facilitate development and administration of the NASA Equal

    Opportunity Program at the Center.  It includes supporting equal

    employment practices for all persons, including people with

    disabilities and disabled veterans.</li>

    <P>

        <li><B><u>Shuttle Processing</u></B> - This directorate is

    responsible for overall management, planning, and technical direction,

    and for support for preflight, launch, landing, and recovery

    activities for Space Shuttle vehicles at KSC.</li>

    <P>

        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www-lo.ksc.nasa.gov/">Logistics Operations</u></B></A> - Assure that flight

    hardware, ground support equipment, materials, commodities and

    associated planning are provided to support customer milestones. Also,

    provide specialized laboratory facilities and develop expertise and

    methodologies to support hardware failure analysis, chemical and

    material analysis, precision cleaning, and calibration. Maintain and

    enhance logistics processes and systems which are mandatory for

    continued timely and cost effective logistics support.  </li>

    <P>

        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://rqweb.ksc.nasa.gov/">Safety & Mission Assurance</u></B></A> - The Director, Safety and Reliability, is responsible for the overall management and direction of the safety, reliability and maintainability programs for the John F. Kennedy Space Center.  This includes provision for the consistent application of policy, standards, and procedures for these programs; the conduct of an in-depth safety, reliability, and maintainability engineering assessment and analysis program; the safety surveillance of operations; implementation of institutional safety; and evaluation of contractor programs and performance.</li>

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        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www-de.ksc.nasa.gov/de/de-home.html">Engineering Development</u></B></A> - The Engineering

    Development Directorate, or DE, embodies more than 30 years of

    experience in advanced engineering and applied research and

    development with ground and flight systems. This experience has been

    focused on the planning, development, and application of advanced

    technologies at Kennedy Space Center, resulting in a knowledge base

    and design expertise that is unique and critical to maintaining the

    efficiency, effectiveness, and safety for the KSC launch and landing

    mission.</li>

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        <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www-im.ksc.nasa.gov/">Installation

    Operations</u></B></A> - The Director of Installation Operations

    provides assigned base operations, maintenance, development,

    engineering, construction, activation, and support services for

    Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA facilities/systems on Cape Canaveral

    Air Station, and tenant organizations, and provides certain joint

    services for the 45th Space Wing.</li>

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    	    <li><B><u><A HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/station/sshio/">Space Station Hardware Integration Office</u></B></A> - Is

    the Space Station Program office responsible for the management and

    integration of the overall ground process for all U.S. launched

    elements, from Assembly & Checkout through Verfication & Launch.</li>

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