NASA Instrument Capability Study

Abstract

In July 2007, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of the Chief Engineer (OCE) chartered the NASA Instrument Capability Study (NICS) team to determine whether NASA instrument developers are facing challenges that impact the capability to design and build quality instruments or whether there are flaws in the acquisition strategy evidenced by schedule delays, cost overruns, and increased technical risk via design deficiencies. The Study team was also chartered to determine if occurrences seen recently are coincident, but isolated cases or if there were generic issues causing such degradation. If the issues were found to be generic, the team was to offer solutions to recover such capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
AD1101918

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