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NASA’s Management of Its Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Portfolio
NASA manages two Agency-wide contracts with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for robotic space missions and supporting research. In this audit, we examined the Laboratory’s management of its NASA portfolio relative to cost and schedule and NASA’s management of the contracts.
NASA’s Compliance with the Geospatial Data Act for Fiscal Year 2022
The Geospatial Data Act seeks to foster efficient, government-wide management of geospatial data—information identifying the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on Earth. As required by the Act, we audited NASA’s collection, production...
Ames Research Center’s Lease Management Practices
NASA’s Ames Research Center—located in California’s Silicon Valley—is utilizing leases in an attempt to transform the Center into a shared-use research and development campus by collaborating with private industry, academia, government, and nonprofit organizations. In this audit, we assessed the...
Romanian National Known As “Virus” Extradited For Operating “Bulletproof Hosting” Service That Facilitated The Distribution Of Destructive Malware
NASA’s Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act for Fiscal Year 2021
This audit examined whether NASA complied with the requirements of the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for FY 2021.
Former University of Arkansas Professor Sentenced To One Year In Federal Prison For Lying to Federal Agents About Patents in China
NASA’s Management of the Earth Science Disasters Program
NASA’s Earth Science Disasters Program uses observations from Earth-observing satellites to provide data and information products to U.S. and global entities to help predict, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural, human-caused, and technological disasters. In this report, we assessed...
NASA’s Management of the Mobile Launcher 2 Contract
NASA awarded a $383 million contract in 2019 to Bechtel National, Inc. to design and build a second mobile launcher—the ground structure that will assemble, process, transport, and launch a larger variant of the SLS rocket and Orion capsule to the Moon beginning with the Artemis IV mission. In this...