Outcome 5.1: Diversity & Inclusiveness

Identify, cultivate, and sustain a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment that is needed to conduct NASA missions.

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We have a workforce that is skilled, competent, and dedicated to our missions. Our workforce also is passionate about their work, and they bring many dimensions of diversity, including ideas and approaches, to make their teams successful. To continue the successful conduct of our missions over the next 20 to 30 years, we must maintain and sustain our diverse workforce with the right balance of skills and talents. Our mission and institutional organizations work collaboratively to identify future needs and to identify gaps and potential shortfalls in skills. They also cooperatively plan Agency-level participation in new employee recruitment efforts. We recruit talented people, seeking a workforce that is inclusive of all, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, status as a parent, or gender identity. We work aggressively to identify and eliminate environmental factors that can diminish trust, impair teamwork, compromise safety, and ultimately undermine excellence. We conduct an annual self-evaluation as part of our Model EEO Plan, which is designed to identify and remove barriers to individual and team success. This evaluation helps us build a model workplace that promotes personal and professional growth, and respects and values the contributions of every member on our team. We also have established a Diversity and Inclusion Framework to increase the diversity of our workforce and the overall inclusiveness of our work environments. The framework takes us beyond a focus on EEO compliance to policies and practices designed to enhance innovation, creativity, and employee retention. To align human resources with our mission, goals, and objectives, we conduct workforce analysis and planning. These systematic processes are used to identify and address the gaps between our current workforce and our future human capital needs. This enables us to determine the skill sets we need and identify which positions will require additional strategies to fulfill them. Our workforce development and training initiatives help redirect our employees in response to changing mission priorities. We provide leadership training and development programs to help mature the potential of our high-performing employees, making certain that we have readied our future leadership to pursue our long-range objectives. In conjunction with initiatives for our current workforce, we sponsor education programs to provide highly specialized research and engineering experiences to students with an interest in aeronautics and astronautics. By providing undergraduates and graduate students with hands-on opportunities to contribute to our current missions, we are effectively providing on-the-job training to the next-generation workforce.

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• Students


• Undergraduate Students


• Graduate Students

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