NASA spends millions to fly first and business class with little oversight, Scripps
“NASA neglected to disclose an entire year’s worth of upgrades in 2012, and faced no repercussions. The agency is in the process of completing that report now. … Each agency’s inspector general is responsible for enforcing travel regulations, according to the GSA. NASA’s office of inspector general acknowledged it has never audited premium travel. Asked why the errors weren’t caught earlier, NASA CFO Robinson, who has been on the job since 2009, said she only recently became responsible for the report. “It was done elsewhere at NASA and it came to us because all of the people doing it retired. So I can’t speak to what they did.” Regarding its failure to file an entire year of disclosures in 2012, NASA officials put the onus partly on GSA, saying the agency never contacted them about it.”
– Message From The NASA Administrator: New Policies in Response to Sequestration, earlier post
– Unequal Application of Travel Restrictions, earlier post
– Bolden Cuts Travel; Buys Toy Telescope Models, earlier post
– (Ambassador) Charlie Bolden’s Travel Plans?, earlier post
Like all other cases of mismanagement, there is no accountability and those involved either resign or retire.
Actually, they get promoted.
I remember a few years back there was a review of NASA Management Travel, seems like they skewered a few folks, but not the ones who consistently violate the rules. While everyone expects the Administrator to travel, he should set the example…oh I guess he is
And some people just do not understand when commenters rail about NASA and pork.
OIG and OCFO asleep at the switch? . . What about NASA’s Internal Controls Office? Aren’t they supposed to be on the look out for these kinds of internal control breakdowns and preventing things like Premium Travel abuse? It seems that NASA’s oversight is selective at best, negligent at worst.