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Risk Management Structured for Today's EnvironmentToday's project management environment provides NASA with myriad challenges. We have smaller budgets and, consequently, smaller programs and shorter lead times. We have less money for development, and no money to recover from contingencies or mishaps. The NASA Administrator is leading the Agency away from operations, instilling a renewed focus on scientific research and the development and application of new cutting-edge technologies. We are using performance-based and fixed-price contracts with industry, and we are forming more and more partnerships with the international community. In addition to the environment, we have many NASA-unique conditions that challenge mission success. They include a higher level of performance requirements, limited production numbers, higher development efforts and cost, the inability to operate a space element fully under realistic conditions on the ground, limited access to the product during operation, and, of course, the need for more science for fewer dollars and on a shorter schedule.
Document ID
20000028284
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Contribution to a larger work
Authors
Michael A. Greenfield
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1998
Publication Information
Publication: Issues in NASA Program and Project Management
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Volume: 14
Issue Publication Date: April 1, 1998
Subject Category
Administration And Management
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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