NASA Is Delaying The Launch Of Its $9 Billion Space Telescope — Again, Buzzfeed “Make no mistake, I’m not happy sitting here telling you this,” NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen told reporters […]
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NASA Has No Idea How Much Reimbursable Agreements Cost
NASA’s Management of Reimbursable Agreements “NASA has made improvements in the way it manages reimbursable agreements, but still cannot provide Congress and other stakeholders with fully accurate and complete information […]
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NASA CFO Jeff Dewitt Confirmed
Keith’s note: NASA CFO nominee Jeff Dewitt has been confirmed by the Senate. NASA Statement on Nomination for Agency Chief Financial Officer, earlier post “The following is a statement from […]
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NASA OIG Slaps JSC and NSBRI Over Improper Use of Funds
NASA OIG: Audit of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute “We found that NSBRI delivered research products that helped NASA make progress toward the goal of mitigating human health and […]
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OIG Annual Report – NASA Spends Money Unwisely
NASA Office of Inspector General Annual Report April – September 2017 “Specifically, despite spending almost $200 million on three spacesuit development efforts, NASA remains years away from having a spacesuit […]
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NASA Likes Financial Report That Says Broken Things Are Still Broken
NASA’s Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Audit Result “NASA has received an unmodified audit opinion on its Fiscal Year 2017 (FY 2017) financial statements, making this the seventh consecutive year of […]
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NASA OIG Reports Progress on Efforts to Rightsize but Key Decisions Still Pending
NASA OIG: NASA’s Efforts to “Rightsize” its Workforce, Facilities, and Other Supporting Assets “Through the TCAT and CLM processes, NASA has established a framework that should improve the Agency’s ability […]
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New NASA OIG Data System Tracks Everyone and Everything
NASA OIG: Notice of a new system of records: Data Analytics System (ADAS) “In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), the National Aeronautics and Space […]
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NASA's Accounting Improves But Its Cost Forecasting Does Not
NASA Receives Fifth Consecutive Clean Audit Opinion “NASA has received an unmodified audit opinion on its Fiscal Year 2015 (FY 2015) financial statements, marking the fifth consecutive year of “clean” […]
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Government Travel Rules Still Hamper NASA
The bind on federal travel, Sandra Magnus/AIAA, Washington Post “In response to the new rules, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has joined with more than 100 scientific […]