Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (January 2003)

摘要

This report addresses the major management challenges and program risks facing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as it seeks to advance human exploration and development of space, advance and communicate scientific knowledge, and research and develop aeronautics and space technologies. The report discusses the actions that NASA has taken and that are under way to address the challenges GAO identified in its Performance and Accountability Series 2 years ago, and major events that have occurred that significantly influence the environment in which the agency carries out its mission. Also, GAO summarizes the challenges that remain, new ones that have emerged, and further actions that GAO believes are needed. This analysis should help the new Congress and the administration carry out their responsibilities and improve government for the benefit of the American people. In its 2001 performance and accountability report on NASA, GAO identified important management, oversight, and workforce issues facing the agency. The information GAO presents in this report is intended to help sustain congressional attention and an agency focus on continuing to make progress in addressing these challenges-and others that have arisen since 2001-and ultimately overcoming them. This report is part of a special series of reports on government wide and agency specific issues.