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GAO-01-1015R 1 (2001-09-05)

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  SGAO

       Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548


         September 5, 2001

         The Honorable Dana Rohrabacher
         Chairman, Subcommittee on Space
         and Aeronautics
         Committee on Science
         House of Representatives

         The Honorable Bart Gordon
         Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee
         on Space and Aeronautics
         Committee on Science
         House of Representatives

         Subject: Survey of NASA's Lessons Learned Process


         You asked us to assess whether the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
         (NASA) has adequate mechanisms in place to ensure that past lessons learned from
         mission failures are being applied. As part of your request, you asked that we provide
         the results of our survey regarding the collection and sharing of lessons learned by
         NASA program and project managers. This letter provides the results. We plan to
         issue a more detailed report on the effectiveness of NASA's lessons learned process
         early next calendar year.

         As part of our assessment of NASA's effectiveness in applying lessons learned, we
         surveyed all of NASA's program and project managers to obtain their perspectives on
         (1) the collection, access, and use of lessons learned, (2) the strengths and limitations
         of current NASA's lessons learned processes, procedures, and systems, including the
         Lessons Learned Information System (LLIS), (3) the challenges or barriers to the
         sharing of lessons learned, and (4) suggested areas of improvement. This
         represented 192 managers overseeing about 240 programs and projects. On August 6
         and 8, 2001, we briefed your staff on the results of our survey and this report
         summarizes those results. The briefing slides are included as enclosure I.

         We conducted our work from September 2000 through July 2001 in accordance with
         generally accepted government auditing standards. Enclosure II describes our
         objectives, scope and methodology.


GAO-01-1015R Survey of NASA's Lessons Learned Process

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