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James Webb Space Telescope : project facing increased schedule risk with significant work remaining : report to congressional committees.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Procurement.
- United States.
- James Webb Space Telescope (Spacecraft).
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Government purchasing--United States--Management.
- Government purchasing.
- Armed Forces--Procurement.
- Government purchasing--Management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.
- Summary:
- "JWST is one of NASA's most complex and expensive projects, at an anticipated cost of $8.8 billion. With significant integration and testing planned until the launch date, the JWST project will need to address many challenges before NASA can conduct the science the telescope is intended to produce. GAO has made a number of prior recommendations to NASA, including in December 2012 that the project perform an updated joint cost and schedule risk analysis to improve cost estimates. NASA initially concurred with this recommendation, but it later indicated that the tracking of information it already had in place was sufficient and ultimately decided not to conduct another joint cost and schedule risk analysis. GAO was mandated to assess the program annually and report on its progress. This is the third such report. This report assesses, among other issues, the extent to which (1) technical challenges are impacting the JWST project's ability to stay on schedule and budget, and (2) budget and cost estimates reflect current information about project risks. To conduct this work, GAO reviewed monthly and quarterly JWST reports, interviewed NASA and contractor officials, reviewed relevant policies, and conducted independent analysis of NASA and contractor data."--Highlights.
- Notes:
- "December 2014"--Cover.
- "GAO-15-100."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed March 31, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 905905324
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