Donald L.

Savage
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
June 14, 1993
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

RELEASE: 93-112

MALCOLM PETERSON APPOINTED NASA ACTING COMPTROLLER

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today announced the

appointment of Malcolm L. Peterson as Acting Comptroller for the
agency. Peterson's appointment follows the retirement last Friday
of Acting Comptroller Gary B. Allison.

Peterson, a NASA employee since 1972, recently led the

control/cost estimating group within the agency's Space Station
Redesign Team which last week submitted its final report to the
President's Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space
Station.

Since 1989 Peterson was the Director of the Resources

Analysis Division in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer at
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. During that time he was
assigned by then Administrator Richard Truly to the National Space
Council for a year, where he conducted various studies including
procurement reforms.

Peterson began his career in federal service in 1969 and in

1972, began working in the Comptroller's office at NASA
Headquarters. From 1972 through 1979 he was a program analyst in
the Resources Analysis Division where he had the responsibility
for several programs, including tracking and data acquisition,
space applications, space science and expendable launch vehicles.
During that time he spent a year at the Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Md., working in the Landsat/Nimbus project
office.
 In 1979 he was tasked with leading the Comptroller's
independent analysis of the Space Shuttle program. After
completion of the Shuttle's orbital flight test phase in 1982, he
became the Branch Chief for Space Transportation Systems programs
in the Resources Analysis Division.

Peterson became Assistant Comptroller for Program Status

Review and Cost Assessment in 1985. In that capacity, he was a
member of the NASA Headquarters planning team formed in response
to the Challenger accident. In 1986-1987 he led the independent
cost estimate team for the Space Station.

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Peterson received a bachelor of arts degree in 1968 from

Washington University, St. Louis, and earned a master's degree in
arts and sciences from the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville. He is a member of the Senior Executive Service
and is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

He is married to Ellen Wright Peterson and lives in Howard

County, Md.

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