NASA Office of JPL Management and Oversight
NOJMO represents NASA on-site at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Working side by side with Caltech and the JPL community, we help bring the nation’s most ambitious missions to life, from exploring other planets to observing our own Earth to venturing into deep space. We’re here to support JPL’s world-class people and their innovation, and to help connect their work with NASA’s vision for the future.
Location
Pasadena, California
Founded
1958
Director
Dr. Antti A. Pulkkinen
JPL NOJMO Center Director
Antti A. Pulkkinen, Ph.D., is Director of the NASA Office of JPL Management and Oversight (NOJMO). NOJMO is the NASA Headquarters on-site government organization at JPL, responsible for contract management, agency oversight, and ensuring contractor compliance with federal regulations.
Biography
NOJMO’s Role is Oversight Focused and Mission Enabling
NOJMO manages the JPL contract, provides on-site oversight, and safeguards financial and business integrity. By partnering with JPL, NASA mission organizations, and Agency stakeholders, we connect NASA’s needs to JPL’s world-class capabilities and clear the path for great work that benefits NASA, the nation, and humanity.
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Overseeing NASA’s Only FFRDC
The NASA Office of JPL Management and Oversight (NOJMO) is NASA Headquarters’ direct presence at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, home to some of the most ambitious missions in space exploration. Managed by Caltech, JPL is NASA’s only federally funded research and development center (FFRDC).
It was created to take on challenges no other single organization can, from landing rovers on Mars to exploring the far reaches of the solar system. NOJMO stewards this one-of-a-kind partnership on NASA’s behalf, so JPL’s world-class talent can focus on missions that define America’s leadership in space.
NOJMO and JPL work together to ensure JPL:
· Serves the public interest
· Remains objective and independent
· Avoids conflicts of interest
· Operates with the transparency NASA needs for effective oversight
Latest NOJMO News
NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management
The work conducted at JPL remains critically important to the agency, and NASA is committed to maintaining continuity for active and future missions throughout the procurement process. NASA also is committed to maintaining the FFRDC’s existing physical location.
NOJMO Leadership
Dr. Antti Pulkkinen
Center Director
James G. Williams
Chief Contracting Officer
Kenneth Gimlin
Institutional Management Division (IMD)
Jonathan Brett Swanson
Chief Counsel, OGC
Bobbie Stoker
Business Operations Manager, OCFO
Rosalía Toberman
Associate Chief of the Contracting Office
Abe Awwad
Institutional Management Chief
Focus Areas
A leader in robotic space exploration, JPL has sent rovers to Mars, probes to our solar system’s farthest reaches, telescopes into space to study the universe, and satellites into Earth orbit to better understand our home planet.
Earth Science
Studying Earth from land, air, sea, and space to better understand and manage our dynamic planet.
Solar System
Creating robotic explorers throughout our solar system to study the complex processes that have shaped the worlds within it and whether life exists elsewhere.
Asteroids and Comets
Pinpointing the paths of comets and asteroids that may pass close to Earth.
Universe
Exploring the deepest reaches of the universe to understand the forces that shape it and to search for new worlds beyond our solar system.
Technology
Developing technology to further our exploration of the universe and improve life on Earth.
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Science drives everything JPL does. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate works to uncover how the universe began, how it evolves, and where it is headed, along with the strange phenomena that shape it. JPL is where many of those questions take flight, designing and operating the robotic explorers that reach across the solar system and study the universe beyond.
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