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NSIAD-00-103R 1 (2000-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalow0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GAO Acountblity * Intgrfty . Reliability United States General Accounting Office National Security and Washington, DC 20548 International Affairs Division B-284721 May 11, 2000 The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. Chairman The Honorable Ralph M. Hall Ranking Minority Member Committee on Science House of Representatives Subject: Space Station: Prime Contract Changes The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its international partners-Japan, Canada, the European Space Agency, and Russia-are building the International Space Station as a permanently orbiting laboratory to conduct materials and life sciences research, earth observation, commercial utilization, and related activities under nearly weightless conditions. Each partner is providing station hardware and crew members and is expected to share operating costs and use of the station. The NASA space station program manager is responsible for the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the total program. The Boeing Corporation, the prime contractor, is responsible for development, integration, and assembly of the station. The prime contract was valued at $5.6 billion when it was signed in January 1995, and is currently budgeted at $10.2 billion with a scheduled completion date of August 2004. You have expressed concern about the growing costs of the space station and NASA's efforts to control them. This report responds to your request for information on changes made to the prime contract during fiscal years 1998 and 1999. Specifically, you asked us to identify (1) the number of changes made to the original contract, how many added capability or revised initial designs, and the total estimated cost of the changes; (2) the number of changes that either added capability or revised initial designs and for which work began before NASA and the contractor agreed on a cost estimate and their total estimated cost; (3) the difference between the proposed and final negotiated costs of changes for which work began before NASA and the contractor agreed on a cost; and (4) instances in which NASA spent funds for space station enhancements that were not called for in the original contract's baseline design and are not currently included in NASA's space station program budget. GAO/NSIAD-00-103R Space Station Change Orders

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