NASA Veteran Volz Named Head of NOAA's Weather Satellite Division

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NASA Earth science veteran Stephen Volz is taking over as assistant administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Satellite and Information Service, putting a seasoned NASA hand in charge of procurement and operation of U.S. civilian weather satellites following a period of political debate about whether the weather agency should do both of those things. Volz, who has been associate director for flight programs in the Earth Science Division at NASA headquarters here since 2007, will start at NOAA Nov. 2, the weather agency announced Sept. 29. Volz succeeds Mary Kicza, another NASA alum who left in June after seven years of managing NOAA's roughly $2 billion-a-year weather satellite portfolio.