NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative was designed to provide rapid, affordable, and frequent payload deliveries to the Moon via commercial lunar landers. In this report, we assessed NASA’s management of the CLPS initiative.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | No | $0 | $0 | ||
Conduct updated market research to assess capability growth across the lunar economy and associated transportation sector since 2017 | |||||
2 | No | $0 | $0 | ||
Reassess NASA’s role in, and contribution to, the commercial lunar delivery market | |||||
3 | No | $0 | $0 | ||
Finalize a management plan with clear leadership authority and responsibility that would delineate CLPS initiative performance goals and metrics that are measurable and targeted, criteria for augmented insight, a formal lessons-learned process, and any other relevant guidelines for the management plan’s implementation | |||||
4 | No | $0 | $0 | ||
Prepare and formalize a CLPS Manifest Selection Board charter and processes | |||||
5 | No | $0 | $0 | ||
Strengthen procedures to ensure science payload interfaces and requirements are mature enough to write an RFTP that would minimize future requirement changes |