Well as fate would have it the blog at work is still struggling to see light, and take its first deep breath of life. I was tasked to begin a mock entry for the blog to provide an idea of what a blog entry should look like. We have others who will be doing the same. Monday we are suppose to come together and put our ideas on a table. I took a wild stab at it, and what follows comes from my heart. I still do not believe it is worthy of a NASA publication site, but I do know that when I write for me it turns out much better then if I write for someone else. I was asked merely IF you were going to write a blog about this organization... what would you say.
I wanted to keep it positive, and forward thinking. I wanted it to inspire, and be upliftingly hopeful. I wanted it to convey who we are and what we do. I wanted it to state our commitment from a one on one level, to a global connection. I wanted it to have passion. I also wanted to keep it short, so as not to bore the reader to death with long drawn out winded speeches. What I came up with is below. Not that I expect it to go much further then right here on my blog...but it was fun to let the creative passion flow, and pour out a little bit of me. I am thrilled that I get to have a place in kicking off the people who will be making the first real entries for the NASA Dryden blog. I believe in this being nothing but good for the center. I look forward to the blog getting off the ground. I look forward to our first of many informative and exciting entries from our center. But for now... read and see what you think.
OCIO Code MI Blog Fist Draft…
NASA Dryden’s Mission Information and Test Technology Systems branch (Code MI) is a diverse, and highly skilled workforce that not only exemplifies our institutional capabilities, but it also permeates our eminent overall commitment to our primary customers, our center, our agency, our nation, and our global community. We strive to ensure our altitudinous level of quality within the most cost effective and efficient ways possible. We, being the I.T. Infrastructure, are excited to be an integral part of this center and its global contributing missions to aeronautics, airborne science, research and so much more. Through cutting edge advanced technologies we are finding better ways to provide vital cornerstone support to all areas of the center. We take our contribution to each mission supported at DFRC very seriously.
Code MI looks forward to our collective future with anticipation, and excitement towards the limitless possibilities set before us. With great change happening within the entire agency we are invigorated with the new directions we will soon be branching out, and supporting. With one foot firmly planted in the amazingly rich history, and marvelous feats, of both NACA and NASA’s prolific past, we put our best foot forward, in an inspiring leap of excitement and faith, towards a more proactive, and innovative time in our nation’s collective history. With a new vision of tomorrow where we are looking less in a single focus, and more in an atomic explosion of possibilities and advancements. Working as a team in tandem with our nations brightest engineers, most critical thinking scientists, and detailed mathematicians, we will soon be supporting longer, more in depth data recovering flight missions than ever before. Information that we never knew, we did not know, will soon be discovered, captured, and analyzed to foster a new era of radical and revolutionary change for the US. This new information will undoubtedly spin off into unfathomable gains that will be felt and in a global ripple effect. We are confident the up and coming advancements will profoundly shape all that is yet to come; and that the best part of our history books is still yet to be written. This is truly the best aspect of being part of this organization. It is truly a magical time.
The extraordinary bottom line is it all starts here, with us in Information Technology Systems. Far from the days of slide rules, college ruled paper, and wooden pencils, we have evolved into the proverbial hub of the center. I.T. is the very backbone on which the greatest achievements at Dryden are derived. From I.T.’s desktop support, the center operator, reproduction services, and the help desk to assist with one on one personal care to our immediate customer base. To the ground support of the men and women who provide us with miles and miles of skillfully and artistically ran plethora of all varieties of network, telephone, and communications cables. To a more quiet and behind the scenes supportive network of dedicated I.T. Security officers, COMSEC specialists, physical I.T. security, network engineers, and system administrators who provide for us a technology based infrastructure which ensures the availability of transfer, storage, back up, safety, and flow of sensitive and critical data to those that need it, when they need it. We have specialists that are educated and up to date in the latest and greatest in VoIP, and Video conferencing which allows for us a cheaper, more effective, diverse way of open communication amongst colleagues whose missions span from many different locations. We are directly responsible for the truly inspirational videos that would put the best aviation movies, and air shows to shame. As well as we get to capture some of the best moments in the nations successes on film with some of the world’s best, most skilled, and detailed photographers and technicians. Our videos, photos and graphics are routinely published in history books, pamphlets, flyers, and even such esteemed publications as National Geographic, Scientific America, and Modern Aviation. We are the vocal cords for the voice of Dryden. Providing, creating, and maintaining all forms of web applications, and databases, and designs that communicate just what we do here at Dryden’s Flight Research Center to our nation’s public, and assist in the conveyance of the overall importance of every spoke in the wheel of this great center.
We, as Code MI, have, arguably, the best jobs in the center. Often quiet and unassuming in nature, our staff is an exceptional workforce that embraces our role in the big picture. We are proud to be a part of the missions, and we are proud to be here for you.
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