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093832 1 (1973-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxgv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE < 0 WASHINGTON REGIONAL OFFICE FIFTH FLOOR 803 WEST BROAD STREET FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA 22046 MAY 3 0 1973 Mr. Richard C. McCurdy, Associate Admifnistrator Office of Organization and Management National Aeronautics and Space Administration LM093832 Dear Mr. McCurdy: Congressional interest in the increasing cost of major research and development programs prompted us to initiate a re- view of the reasons for changes in cost estimates on selected National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unmanned spaceflight projects. The following projects were included in our reviewi Applications Technoloqy Satellite--? end C missios Viking; Earth Resources Technology Satellite--A and B missions; Pioneer-F and 0 missions; Kariner Mars 1971; Orbiting Solar Observatory--I, J, and K missions; Uimbus--E and T missions; and Orbiting Astronomical Observatory--A, D, and C missions. e completed the review in February 1972, and in March 1972 requested that NASA officially comment on the pronosed report. Over the next several months, meetings ware held with NASA officials to discuss the draft report, and in iNoveober 1972 NASA provided detailed comments on the draft. NASA's basic objection was to our using initial cost estirates provided the Congress as a base for tracking changes made to the estimates. Since then actions have been taken by NASA and the Congress which directly affect recomm aen dations made in the draft report. In July 1972 NASA revised its project planning guidelines to include, among other things, a more detailed discussion of cost estimating. The revised guidelines require that all costs, direct or ancillary, related to a project be identified even if sore of the costs are not under the direct control of the project manager. The guidelines identify specific types of costs to be considered. Wa also suggested in the drAft report that the Congress consider requiring NASA to report to it periodically on the status of mnjor projects showing the significant changes in estimated cost and the reasons for such changes. We orally comunicated this sutgestion in December 1971, to the Subcammittee on NASA Oversight of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. They subsequently made arrangements with KASA to be provided periodically with project status data.

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