Inside Higher Ed

Caltech Must Bid to Operate NASA Lab for First Time in Nearly 100 Years

Caltech will compete to operate and manage the Jet Propulsion Lab, a federally funded research and development center it ...

Political play or budget fix? Competition for JPL's management comes at a fraught moment

A competitive contract isn't necessarily a bad thing, experts say. But the administration's anti-science record raises ...
Fox Business

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab announces hundreds of layoffs: 'Painful but necessary'

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will lay off a significant portion of its workforce on Wednesday, according to a memo that the company sent on Tuesday. The lab, which specializes in robotic ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Initiates Largest Change In 70 Years, Solicits Bids To Replace Caltech As Its Manager

A booming industry is proving that private enterprise can make serious strides in space, and JPL is looking to find cheaper ways to do what it's always done.
BGR

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Is Laying Off Over 500 Employees - Here's Why

In a brief statement, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Director Dave Gallagher announced that the organization is letting go of around 550 employees at its La Cañada Flintridge facility in ...
ZAWYA

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory advances deep space mission operations with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

JPL selected Red Hat OpenShift with its built-in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization capability to support a sophisticated, high ...

NASA's Iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory Could Change Hands for the First Time

Caltech has led JPL to some of the most ambitious and successful missions in NASA's history, but the agency could be about to ...
LAist

Jet Propulsion Laboratory To Undergo Mass Layoffs

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday announced that it would lay off approximately 530 employees, or about 8% of its workforce, in response to a reduced budget from NASA and lack of a new spending ...
KTLA

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory slashing 8% of workforce

LOS ANGELES – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on Tuesday that it is slashing 530 employees, or roughly 8% of its workforce, due to uncertainty about its federal funding. The Pasadena-based ...
The Washington Post

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off another 5 percent of workforce

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the world’s premier centers for robotic space exploration, is laying off about 325 people, or roughly 5 percent of the workforce, laboratory director Laurie ...
Space.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending remote work policy for nearly 5,500 employees. 'Employees who do not return by their required date will be considered to have resigned.'

"It's clear that it's a silent layoff of the over 1,000 remote employees who they don't want to pay severance to." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Fast Company

Jet Propulsion Lab

The $488 mission will scan the entire sky to better understand the evolution of the universe and look for ingredients for life. Jupiter’s moon Europa is NASA’s next search for potential life More than ...