LONG NASA GLENN HIRING FREEZE MELTS AWAY.

Crain's Cleveland Business, September, 1999 by PRIZINSKY, DAVID

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is hiring again for the first time in half a decade. The center, which has been under a hiring freeze for the past five years, will hire 35 engineers and scientists before the end of this year, according to center director Donald J.

Campbell. Mr. Campbell said the center has been able to resume hiring because it has met or exceeded job reductions mandated in 1995 by NASA headquarters. Those cuts were made in anticipation of shrinking budgets. As a result of the local actions, Mr. Campbell said the agency-imposed hiring ban has been lifted to enable NASA Glenn to beef up its engineering staff. In 1995, NASA Glenn, then known as the NASA Lewis Research Center, had...

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