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NXS&'s Resource Data Base and Techniques for Supporting,
Planning, and Controlling Programs Need Improvement. PSAD-77-78;
B-133340. may 19, 1977. 33 pp.
Report to Re,. Dcn Fuqua, Chairman, House Committee on Science
and Technology: Space Science and Applications Subcommittee; by
Elmer B. Staat-,- Comptroller General.
Tssue frea: Science and Technology (20CO).
Contact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budget Function: General Science, Space, and Technology:
Supporting Space Activ:ities (2551.
organization ConcernMd: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Scince and
Technology: Space Science and Applications Subcommittee.
Data compiled by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) on its resouirces and management techniques
for supporting, planning, and ccntrolling research and
development programs omitted some resources, and did not
identify others xith the projects they benefited.
Finlings/Conclusions: The data base of resor'ces available in
fiscal year 1976 for carrying out its research and levelopment
prograijs excludo about 36% of NASA's appropriated funds, 7% of
its personnel, and 72% vf its real and personal properyy.
Subuommittee staff members and NASA agreed to exclude some
resources, but others were excluded due to inadvertent
omissions, NASA's belief that the subcommittee did not want
certain resources included, the agency's definition of research
and development costs, differing interpretations by NASA's
centers of its headquarters' instructions for compiling the
data, or the fact that NASA said it regularly reports certain
resource data to the Congress. There were no major problems with
NASA's internal guidelines for prograii planning and control of
resources. Recommendations: The NASA Administrator should
revise the data provided to the subcommittee to include all
resources available to NASA iu fiscal year 1976 to carry out its
research and development programs, and id7.ntify, to the extent
possible, all resources with the projects they benefit. The
sub-ommittee should investigate NASA's management of underused,
leactivated, or inoperable facilities and NASA's policy and
procedures for identifying such facilities and reaching
decisions concerning their use or disposal. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacep0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)