Similarly, our summer months cooling degree days are increasing. It's getting hotter.
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![Introducing the Efficiency Ideas Submission Form
At NASA, we take pride in tackling tough challenges, finding smarter ways to work, and ensuring every resource is used to advance our mission. Agencywide, there are opportunities to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and strengthen how we operate. No one knows those opportunities better than you.
To capture insights, we’re launching the Efficiency Ideas submission form – a place to share ideas on how we can improve the way we work. You can submit ideas anonymously or include your contact information if you’d like to be available for follow-up. We encourage you to be specific and succinct so we can identify the most actionable ideas.
To help inform our phase two submission for President Trump’s “Workforce Optimization Initiative,” we encourage submissions by Thursday, April 10. However, the tool will remain open beyond that date as we continue seeking ways to improve our operations.
Submit your efficiency ideas:
https://forms.office.com/g/[REDACTED]
NASA senior leadership will review submissions, prioritizing ideas based on feasibility, cost impact, and alignment with our mission. Some ideas may be assigned to directorates or program offices for further development. We’ll keep you updated on the ideas that move forward.
Your expertise and creativity drive NASA’s success, and I look forward to seeing the solutions you propose. Thank you for your commitment to making this agency stronger.
Embrace the Challenge,
Janet](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqfimhq66n3cogrdijrcselz/bafkreidx77k7ebltgn5mfqg5m5y3pprgdobfhky3fu3nl65tjldg74u7be)
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By Adam Keiper (@adamkeiper.com):
Wow. Just Wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
By @James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki):
Just figured out where these fake tariffs rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
By @James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki):
Replying to @JamesSurowiecki:
It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.
[Illegible tables follow showing tariffs rates being applied by the Trump Administration.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqfimhq66n3cogrdijrcselz/bafkreihw4hbboidhkbaw6thexhogkunyuvofzykbavnvp4guurtjmuvw5m)
![NASA Update - March 10, 2025
As I alluded to last week, we are all navigating a complex and ever-changing landscape together, and I want to share what that means for our team in the near term.
As directed by [an] Executive Order, "Implementing the President's 'Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative," all federal agencies, including NASA, have been instructed to submit an initial plan for reductions in force and reorganization. In compliance with this directive, we are actively working with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to develop a thoughtful approach that aligns with both administration priorities and our mission needs. While this will mean making difficult adjustments, we're viewing this as an opportunity to reshape our workforce, ensuring we are doing what is statutorily required of us, while also providing American citizens with an efficient and effective agency.
In coordination with OPM, and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, we began implementing a phased reduction in force, or RIF, today. These actions are occurring in advance of the agency's RIF and reorganization plan as part of the broader governmentwide restructuring effort. We will close NASA's Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with reducing their workforce.
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I know this news is difficult and may affect us all differently. Change of this magnitude is never easy, but our strength comes from our shared commitment to our mission and each other. I remain grateful for your professionalism and resilience, and I encourage you to support one another as we move forward.
Embrace the Challenge,
Janet](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqfimhq66n3cogrdijrcselz/bafkreicstjs36di4it77kxqq6ku7uztlwoshq77yikbo5sff4jkw67ifpa)
![Perhaps the greatest human accomplishment of the past century was the remarkable increase in life expectancy. In a century the world changed markedly from having almost no countries with life expectancy more than 50 years to having many countries with a life expectancy of 80 years as life expectancy almost doubled in the long-lived part of the world. As an example, in the United States life expectancy at birth over the 110 years from 1900 to 2010 went from 47.3 to 78.7 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics [CDC/NCHS], 2012, 2013). At first, this increasing length of life resulted from declines in infectious disease and deaths concentrated among the young. After most deaths from infectious conditions were eliminated, cardiovascular conditions and cancer dominated the causes of death. These then became the targets of science and medicine in the second half of the last century.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4861644/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqfimhq66n3cogrdijrcselz/bafkreigbu4oakzljhgqyxrhtbbl4cjds3efzkk77tocrsqh2qcjfjue4qu)
