National Aeronautics and Space Administration

As of February 2025, NASA had allocated over $26 billion in government property to contractors in support of six Artemis programs. Although NASA has policies in place to manage its government property, the Agency can strengthen its oversight by ensuring consistent application of those policies to...

NASA missions are dependent on infrastructure, including testing facilities, laboratories, and launch pads, that face the threat of extreme weather events. To address weather-related vulnerabilities of its infrastructure, NASA has integrated resilience efforts into existing processes across various...

Standing Review Boards (SRB) conduct independent assessments of programs and projects and offer recommendations to improve performance and reduce risk. However, the SRB process lacks Agency-level oversight, improved SRB composition and training can add greater value to the assessments, improvements...

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act requires the OIG to conduct an annual evaluation of NASA’s information security program. For fiscal year 2025, we rated NASA’s information security program at a Level 3—meaning policies, procedures, and strategies were consistently implemented, but...

Our Semiannual Report to Congress covering the period October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, features highlights of the OIG’s audit and investigative accomplishments during the past 6 months.

The Payment Integrity Information Act was enacted to improve efforts to identify and reduce federal improper payments—payments the federal government should not have made or made in an incorrect amount under statutory, contractual, administrative, or other legally applicable requirements. NASA...

Zero trust architecture (ZTA) is a cybersecurity approach based on continual verification of each user, device, application, and transaction to protect critical systems and data. NASA has made progress implementing ZTA across its corporate systems (managed by the Office of the Chief Information...

Our Semiannual Report to Congress covering the period April 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024, features highlights of the OIG’s audit and investigations accomplishments during the past 6 months.

In this year’s report, we identified three key challenges for NASA—improving the management of major programs and projects, partnering with commercial industry, and enabling mission critical capabilities and support services.