[CMC] RE: CCSDS Fall workshop, San Antonio

[Kearney, Mike W. (MSFC-EO01)]

CMC and CESG Colleagues:  I apologize that the NASA civil service participants in CCSDS (me included) have been unable to respond to communications while my government was having some issues.  The US government shutdown is over, and we are now back to work.  I thank Wallace for providing needed coordination and "damage control" while the civil service staff was "sidelined" by the government shutdown.

As nearly as we can tell, there should be no impact on the CCSDS meeting in San Antonio starting October 28.  There may be some issues with individual travel, as the government agencies and travel systems slowly reawaken, but we don't expect much of that.  Also project and mission issues caused by the shutdown may cause some individuals to have problems with traveling to the meeting.  We are trying to assess that now, but the preliminary indication is that the shutdown ended early enough for us to ramp back up to full attendance.

Meanwhile, we NASA folks have a huge backlog of email that accumulated during the period when we were not allowed to access our NASA email accounts.  If there is something that is high priority that was sent to the NASA CS staff (me included) during the shutdown, please resend it or send another email telling us about it.

Thanks, and we're looking forward to seeing our colleagues in San Antonio and Montreal.

   -=- Mike

Mike Kearney
Lead Technology Manager
Mission Operations Laboratory
NASA MSFC EO-01
+1-256-544-2029

From: secretariat-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org [mailto:secretariat-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] On Behalf Of Tai, Wallace S (9000)
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 2:03 PM
To: Cmc-exec at mailman.ccsds.org
Subject: [Secretariat] [CMC Alert] CCSDS Fall workshop, San Antonio

Dear CMC colleagues,

You may have already heard that the recent U.S. Government shutdown has led to the furloughs of the NASA civil service employees.  I am sure you may wonder about its impacts on the upcoming CCSDS Fall workshop hosted by the NASA in San Antonio, Texas.

As the highest-ranking, non-furloughed NASA member of the Standards Program, and on behalf of Mike Kearney, the CCSDS Secretariat and NASA's CMC representative, I would like to assure you that it is NASA's intention to host a successful Fall workshop in San Antonio regardless of how this particular situation will develop during the next two weeks.

In the unlikely event that the U.S. Government shutdown persists during the week of 27 October 2013, resulting in the possibility of NASA civil service employees not being able to attend, the JPL and contractor participants (more than twenty of them) will still participate actively. In that regard, we are also working on finding stand-ins from the JPL and contractor workforce for those key areas normally supported by NASA civil service employees.

Thanks in advance for all of your continued participation.  Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Regards,

Wallace Tai, NASA/JPL
CESG Deputy Chair

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