National Aeronautics and Space Administration OIG

NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement is making progress managing and coordinating a diverse group of STEM engagement activities across the Agency and continues to operate against a backdrop of uncertainty, with its efforts challenged by a history of budget cuts and proposed elimination of the office.

For decades, NASA has been a leader in High-End Computing, also known as supercomputing. But the Agency’s history of innovation is being stymied by disjointed management, as detailed in this report.

This report, one in a series of audits examining NASA’s development of space flight systems for Artemis IV and future missions, examines the Agency’s plans to move its individual SLS contracts to a commercial services contract to lower the cost of the launch system.

The Mars Sample Return Program is one of the most complex, demanding, and ambitious robotic science missions ever undertaken. Before authorizing whether to advance the program to its next phase, we recommend that NASA stabilize design for key program elements, ensure cost and schedule estimates...

We contracted with the independent public accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP to audit NASA’s fiscal year 2023 financial statements. For the 13th year in a row, this audit resulted in a “clean” or unmodified opinion.

Like other federal agencies, NASA collects personally identifiable information, or PII. The Agency’s high-profile mission and broad connectivity with the public make it susceptible to increased privacy risks. While it has a comprehensive privacy program, NASA needs to take additional steps to better...