A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has found that Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney, the primary contractors working on the F-35, made product deliveries 238 days late on average in 2024 — despite the program paying them hundreds of millions in performance incentive fees, which encourage completing tasks on-time. By comparison, the same deliveries were 61 days late on average in 2023. But even then, the contractors’ lateness was chronic, if not absolute. Lockheed Martin...| Responsible Statecraft
The GAO reports that the US regional air traffic control centers are dangerously short of meteorologists. What could possibly go wrong? The post Happy Flying This Weekend – Who Needs All Those Meteorologists? appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
"Incomplete and unreliable" data?| The Stack
“The program has made progress, but the Artemis schedule poses challenges. Artemis II and III launches (planned for September 2025 and 2026, respectively): EGS is making progress refurbishing the Mobile Launcher 1 – the structure used to transport and launch key systems – and modifying elements to support crew during these missions. New capabilities are taking longer than planned, and the program has only limited time to address potential issues. […] The post GAO Report On Artemis Mis...| SLS and Orion Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: According to a GAO report issued today: “Space Launch System: Cost Transparency Needed to Monitor Program Affordability“: “Because the original SLS version’s cost and schedule commitments, or baselines, were tied to the launch of Artemis I, ongoing production and other costs needed to sustain the program going forward are not monitored. Instead, NASA created a rolling 5-year estimate of production and operations costs to ensure that the costs […] The post Yet Another...| SLS and Orion Archives - NASA Watch
WiFi in schools & other public places; Wi-Fi health effects.| www.saferemr.com
As we have covered on this blog, the rules governing the timing for bid protests at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) and Court of Federal| Inside Government Contracts
Keith’s note: here we go again. A new GAO report: Cybersecurity: NASA Needs to Fully Implement Risk Management is out. Yawn. Once a year GAO, NASA OIG, or some other authoritative body does a review of NASA IT security and they come back and say that NASA is dragging its feet and not dealing with the ever-growing plethora of cyber events that confront us all. NASA writes a letter back […] The post Yet Another Report On How Broken NASA IT Security Is appeared first on NASA Watch.| IT/Web Archives - NASA Watch
Scholars study how to redevelop toxic waste sites.| The Regulatory Review
Last month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the state of federal broadband funding interagency coordination. Not for the first time, it flagged breakdowns in process that could lead to duplication, waste, fraud, and abuse.| The Free State Foundation
How agencies can leverage data-driven space planning to make informed decisions and overcome return-to-work challenges.| GovDesignHub