Keith’s note: NASA OIG has issued a report regarding FY 2025 Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act. Looks like NASA has fixed a lot of things when compared to […]
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NASA GAO Report: Program Costs And Contracting Metrics
Keith’s note: according to a new GAO report on NASA “Priority Open Recommendations“: “Dear Acting Administrator Duffy: The purpose of this letter is to call your personal attention to two […]
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House And Senate Want A NASA OBBBA Spending Plan – Pronto
Keith’s note: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Chair Brian Babin and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Ted Cruz sent a letter to the Acting NASA […]
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OIG Finds Flaws In NASA’s Standing Review Board Process
Keith’s note: According to this NASA OIG report NASA’s Standing Review Board Practices: “Standing Review Boards (SRB) conduct independent assessments of programs and projects and offer recommendations to improve performance […]
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NASA Chief of Staff Action Items
Keith’s note: according to this Reuters article: “NASA Chief of Staff Brian Hughes speaking at the same town hall, agreed, saying it would “probably be considered irresponsible” to wait for […]
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House Democrats “Demand NASA Cease Scheme To Illegally Impound FY25 Funds”
Keith’s note: The following was issued by House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Democrats: Yesterday, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Ranking Member Valerie Foushee (D-NC) wrote a letter to National Aeronautics […]
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DOGE Uses Haiku To Explain NASA Savings
Keith’s note: Team DOGE tweeted this yesterday – $420 million in supposed savings but they only use the minimum number of words to fit into a tweet to explain. Then […]
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Greg Autry – NASA’s DOGEFather
Keith’s note: Greg Autry has been nominated to be the next NASA CFO. In other words he’ll be NASA DOGEFather. Based on earlier public comments you can expect zero sympathy […]
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Internal NASA Memo: NSSC Active Contracts Review
Keith’s note: this went out to a vast portion of the NASA workforce today. I guess we know what people will be working on over the weekend – spreadsheets, not […]
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Shh! NASA Just Got Another Great Audit.
Keith’s 15 Nov note: NASA used to be plague by awful financial audits. Then it cleaned up its act. You’d think that such good news would be worthy of some […]