[PMAGList] PMAG Winter Update

[Tod T. Companion, Ph.D.]

Greetings all!

The PMAG board would like to wish you and yours the very best this holiday 
season!

2003 has been a year of big changes for PMAG, and our beloved Presidential 
Management Fellowship (ne Internship.)

First, PMAG has stepped up activity; we began with a spring event honoring 
our past board members for more than a decade of service - it was a 
festive, well attended event featuring NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. We 
also played host to representatives of OPM who foreshadowed the subsequent 
changes in the program.

Next, PMAG took part in the annual PMI job fair - we staffed an information 
table and spoke to hundreds of finalists. In parallel to the job fair, we 
worked with JHU's SAIS and hosted the International relations interest 
event where PMIs with International relations experience spent time with 
finalists learn about PMI opportunities in this field. Both were tremendous 
opportunities for us to learn about the finalists and for them to learn 
about the rich alumni resource we represent.

In the summer, through OPM, we learned of new executive orders changing 
many things about the PMI program. We corresponded with OPM, and our 
membership and helped inform the process as OPM drafted an Executive Order 
and related regulations governing the internship.

This fall, we held our breath as OPM announced a new PMI/PMF program 
director and a potentially dramatic restart of the PMI program. Meanwhile, 
we also sent board members to the Shepherdstown Orientation, helping round 
out the former PMI panel discussions. The big event OPM planned has not 
happened, but they did get the President to sign Executive orders changing 
the PMI to PMF, and announcing the launch of a senior PMF. The regulations 
for the new PMF, and details on the Senior PMF have not been released, but 
we share the excitement of the PMI community as these changes come. As soon 
as we know anything, we'll pass it on to you!

Just in the last month, PMAG launched a new web page at www.pmag.org. It 
features a great new look, and more content. We will continue to add 
features, including online membership services, and soon an online database 
of members to assist our members in networking. Your input on these pages 
and their content is crucial!

As part of the new web services, we've added links to a variety of public 
service organizations and PMI Central. To foster communications, we're 
going to add an 'ask PMAG' section to our page - this will be a forum for 
PMIs to ask questions of the alumni. We'll either run this as a bulletin 
board or an email service - any thoughts? Would you like to participate?

Finally, we are planning another event in the late winter/early spring - 
we'd like to welcome the new class of PMIs to the family, and give the 
alumni an opportunity to meet and interact with them. We'll keep you posted 
as we progress.

Along with the new web presence, we've developed a series of new email 
addresses, topical and specific to people:

Would you like to join PMAG? members at pmag.org

Have comments or concerns about PMAG or the PMF program? send them to 
Changes at pmag.org

Interested in helping PMAG with operations or a specific event? send a note 
to volunteers at pmag.org and events at pmag.org

Input on the web page? send to web at pmag.org

Intersted in learning about PMAG? Info at pmag.org and of course visit 
www.pmag.org

Again, best wishes for the holiday season and 2004

PMAG
Board of Directors
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Tod T. Companion, Ph.D.
Program Analyst
Homeland Security
Assessments & Technology Division
Office of External Relations
NASA Headquarters

www.hq.nasa.gov

tod.t.companion at nasa.gov
(202) 358-1672
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Dear President Kenade.

	Three boys want to go to the moon this summer.
	There name's are Carlton Crow Carter. Charles Smith. and John Thomas Morgan.
	Will you please get our space suits ready for us?
	And we need freeze guns too.
	We are eight years old.
	We want to know if an animal can go to?
	We want to take a dog named Missy Moo Carter.

				Carlton Crow Carter
				Albany Georgia


 From "Dear NASA: Please Send me a Rocket" by Tait Trussell and Paul Hencke

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