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Hearing on NASA Cost and Schedule Overruns

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 14, 2018
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Hearing on NASA Cost and Schedule Overruns

Hearing: NASA Cost and Schedule Overruns: Acquisition and Program Management Challenges
“June 14, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will hold a Subcommittee on Space hearing titled, NASA Cost and Schedule Overruns: Acquisition and Program Management Challenges. The purpose of the hearing is to discuss the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2018 Quick Look report, this report’s assessments of major NASA projects, and a comparison of this 2018 assessment to cost control and program management trends that GAO and the NASA Inspector General (IG) assessed in previous years.”
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– Cristina Chaplain, GAO [prepared statement]
– Stephen Jurczyk, NASA [prepared statement]
– Paul Martin, inspector general, NASA [prepared statement]
– Daniel Dumbacher, AIAA [prepared statement]
– Chairman Babin [Opening Statement]
– Ranking Member Johnson’s [Opening Statement]
– Ranking Member Bera’s [Opening Statement]
– Chairman Smith [Opening Statement]

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One response to “Hearing on NASA Cost and Schedule Overruns”

  1. Daniel Woodard says:
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    This seemed to be mainly about big projects like SLS, Orin, and Webb. The discussion seemed to focus on the accuracy of the cost prediction rather than the practical value of the program.