Laurie Boeder
Headquarters, Washington, DC        October 28, 1994
(Phone: 202/358-1898)

RELEASE:  94-181


LADWIG TO LEAD NEW OFFICE OF POLICY AND PLANS

     A new Office of Policy and Plans (Code Z) has been 
formed at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.  Alan Ladwig has 
been selected as the Associate Administrator for the new 
office.

     The Office of Policy and Plans will oversee the 
analysis, formulation and implementation of NASA policies and 
long-range strategic planning activities. In addition, the 
office will serve as the focal point for agency-level policy 
issues with Executive Branch offices and other federal 
agencies and departments.

     Ladwig served as the Executive Assistant for the 
Science, Technology and Space Cluster of the Clinton-Gore 
Transition Office.  In October 1993, he received a 
Presidential appointment and was assigned as the Senior 
Policy Advisor in the Office of the Administrator at NASA 
Headquarters. 

     Prior to serving in the Transition Office, Ladwig was a 
senior space policy analyst in private industry specializing 
in policy and education program development.  He also 
established an independent consulting business for policy 
analysis, editorial writing and education program development 
for space projects.  

     From 1981 to 1989, Ladwig served in a variety of 
management positions at NASA including Director of Special 
Projects in the Office of Exploration and Manager of the 
Space Flight Participant Program.  He also served on the 
Administrator's Long Range Planning Task Force that produced 
the report Leadership and America's Future In Space.   He has 
authored numerous articles on the space program and co-
authored a chapter on long-range planning in Blueprint For 
Space.  Ladwig is an active participant in NASA's Speaker's 
Bureau.


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     Ladwig earned a MS degree in higher education and a BS 
degree in speech from Southern Illinois University and has 
received two NASA Exceptional Service Medals.  He and his 
wife Debra live in Northern Virginia.

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