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NASA Office of Inspector General Issues Spring Semiannual Report
Today, the NASA Office of Inspector General (OlG) released its Spring 2025 Semiannual Report to Congress, which highlights the OlG’s accomplishments between October 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025. During this reporting period, the OIG focused on three key challenges facing NASA: improving the management of major programs and projects, partnering with commercial industry, and […]
Investigators Ensure Accountability for Fraudsters Who Jeopardize NASA Missions and Personnel Through Product Substitution
As NASA continues its journey to the Moon and beyond, equipment quality could make the difference between mission success or failure. That’s why a top priority at the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is investigating defective, substituted, untested, counterfeit, or substandard products that could diminish the integrity of NASA systems—and endanger lives. The Office of […]
Revitalizing the Deep Space Network to Support NASA’s Growing Space Exploration Program
How do you communicate with a spacecraft 15 billion miles away from Earth? NASA launched the historic Voyager 1 probe nearly half a century ago, and since then it has ventured farther than any other mission. Today, it takes over 22 hours and five gigantic radio antennas to detect Voyager 1’s faint signal and receive […]
OIG Identifies NASA’s Top Challenges
Today, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its 2024 Top Management and Performance Challenges Report outlining three critical challenges facing the Agency. These include improving the management of major programs and projects, partnering with commercial industry, and enabling mission critical capabilities and support services. In fiscal year 2024, NASA planned to invest more than […]
2024 Report on NASA’s Top Management and Performance Challenges
November 12, 2024 In this year’s report, we identified three key challenges for NASA.
NASA’s Management of the Mobile Launcher 2 Project
NASA is developing a second mobile launcher (ML-2)—the ground structure used to assemble, transport, and launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule—to support larger variants of the SLS beginning with the Artemis IV mission. ML-2’s cost and schedule are not sustainable despite NASA’s efforts to improve project performance.
NASA’s Management of Space Launch System Block 1B Development
Artemis IV will be the first flight of NASA’s more powerful heavy-lift rocket—the Space Launch System Block 1B. However, Block 1B development efforts have encountered multiple issues including Boeing’s ineffective quality management and inexperienced workforce, continued cost increases and schedule delays, and the delayed establishment of a cost and schedule baseline.
Active Projects
Financial Management A-25-04-00-FMD | Audit of NASA’s Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Statements The independent public accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP will perform this audit with oversight by OIG staff. Information Technology A-25-03-00-MSD | Evaluation of NASA’s Information Security Program under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 This audit will evaluate […]
2023 Report on NASA’s Top Management and Performance Challenges
November 1, 2023 In this year’s report, we identified seven key challenges for NASA—including two that pose significant cost and schedule risks to the Artemis campaign, the Agency’s most ambitious and expensive human space exploration effort since Apollo.
Audit of NASA’s Deep Space Network
NASA’s Deep Space Network transmits scientific and communications data between dozens of spacecraft and Earth. However, the network is oversubscribed with demand exceeding supply by 40 percent at times. While NASA is upgrading this critical infrastructure, the effort is costing more and taking longer than planned—challenges that could intensify as more “big data” missions like […]