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Space Station Associates



Practice Areas
Association Management & Governance
Government Relations

The Plexus Team


Dates
2000-2001






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Phone:  202-785-8940
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Space Station Associates (SSA) is a coalition comprised of the government affairs offices of the U.S. contractors for the International Space Station (ISS). The Boeing Company -– lead contractor for the ISS –- and other major aerospace firms retained Plexus Consulting Group to help manage the day-to-day affairs of the SSA and provide strategic insight on the federal budget and appropriations process as it pertains to NASA in general and the ISS in particular.

Immediately after assuming management responsibility for this coalition, Plexus established a "members only" website for the SSA. Information that had taken days to be distributed to the coalition's members was distributed immediately via email and posted to the website for easy reference and retrieval. From a "paper intensive" coalition, the SSA has –- under leadership of the Plexus team –- become a virtually paperless organization.

Plexus provides the following services to SSA:
• website development and maintenance
• daily electronic distribution of worldwide news clippings about the ISS
• management of the weekly SSA coalition meeting
• monitoring of Congressional hearings, markups, and floor debate
• timely insight and intelligence on NASA budget/appropriations issues
• maintenance of a database of Congressional votes on ISS issues
• electronic distribution of Congressional and other documents
• preparation of a year-end wrap-up book

Plexus' success with the SSA coalition prompted one member to remark: "Our coalition has never run so smoothly. We are extremely pleased."