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Topic: NASA OIG: Audit of NASA's Historic Property
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-23-2018 07:57 AM
The Office of Inspector General examined NASA's management of its historic property, including the processes used to identify, account for, and maintain real and personal property; the extent to which historic property is used to further NASA's current missions; and the challenges in managing historic property and aging facilities. NASA's processes for loaning and disposing of historic personal property have improved over the past 6 decades, but a significant amount of historic personal property has been lost, misplaced, or taken by former employees and contractors due to the Agency's lack of adequate procedures. Reclaiming this historic property has proven challenging because of the significant effort required to find the property as well as the Agency's reluctance at times to assert an ownership claim over the items. In addition, past efforts to recover historic personal property have been thwarted by NASA's poor record keeping and a lack of established processes for timely coordination of recovery efforts.... We also found that NASA does not have adequate processes in place to identify or manage its heritage assets, which are predominantly personal property. First, the Agency has not adequately defined the roles and responsibilities of Agency officials responsible for identifying and managing such assets. None of the personnel from the two Centers we visited — Ames Research Center (Ames) and Kennedy Space Center (Kennedy) — could explain who was responsible for originally designating heritage assets or why an item was designated. Moreover, while NASA has procedures to address the management of heritage assets, we found these procedures are often in conflict with other procedures, are vague, and do not adequately describe the processes intended to identify and preserve the assets. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-29-2018 03:30 PM
collectSPACE Audit: NASA lost moon buggy, other artifacts due to poor policiesAfter 60 years of space exploration, NASA could do a better job of tracking its history, federal investigators have found. The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG), the independent investigation arm of the space agency, recently completed an audit of NASA's historic property and, in the wake of several high profile losses, has recommended that the agency adopt a more effective approach to identifying and managing its space artifacts. | |
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