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NASA and one of its major IT contractors have both screwed up badly, according to a new Inspector General report.

February 5, 2014 7:32 pm Robert Zimmerman

It ain’t just the Obamacare website: NASA and one of its major IT contractors have both screwed up badly, according to a new inspector general report.

According to [the inspector general], NASA and HP Enterprise Services have encountered significant problems implementing the $2.5 billion Agency Consolidated End-User Services (ACES) contract, which provides desktops, laptops, computer equipment and end-user services such as help desk and data backup. Those problems include “a failed effort to replace most NASA employees’ computers within the first six months and low customer satisfaction.”

But don’t worry. NASA’s management, the same management that is building the James Webb Space Telescope and the Space Launch System, is right on the case.

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Not only did NASA lose a laptop with the control codes of ISS, the agency’s inspector general also reported that hackers had seized control of the computers at JPL in November.

March 2, 2012 9:59 am Robert Zimmerman

Not only did NASA lose a laptop with the control codes of ISS, the agency’s inspector general also reported that hackers had seized control of the computers at JPL in November.

At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, NASA’s inspector general outlined more than five thousand security lapses at the agency in 2010 and 2011, including the theft of a laptop with the control codes for ISS.

March 1, 2012 9:07 am Robert Zimmerman

At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, NASA’s inspector general outlined more than five thousand security lapses at the agency in 2010 and 2011, including the theft of a laptop with the control codes for ISS.

An audit by NASA’s inspector general finds that NASA can’t keep track of its moon rocks

December 8, 2011 3:47 pm Robert Zimmerman

An audit by NASA’s inspector general has found that NASA can’t keep track of its moon rocks.

In a report issued by the agency’s Inspector General on Thursday, NASA concedes that more than 500 pieces of moon rocks, meteorites, comet chunks and other space material were stolen or have been missing since 1970. That includes 218 moon samples that were stolen and later returned and about two dozen moon rocks and chunks of lunar soil that were reported lost last year.

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A new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General has said that EPA violated its own peer review process in determining that greenhouse gases endanger “the public health and welfare.”

September 28, 2011 1:03 pm Robert Zimmerman

A new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General has said that EPA violated its own peer review process in determining that greenhouse gases endanger “the public health and welfare.”