NASA
Subtitle: compliance with cost limits
Contributors: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States. General Accounting Office; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science
Publisher: U.S. General Accounting Office
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washinton, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Appropriations and expenditures; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States; International Space Station
Other titles: National Aeronautics and Space Administration :; International Space Station and shuttle support cost limits : briefing to staff of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and House Committee on Science, April 2, 2004.
Description: Section 202 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Authorization Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-391) requires that GAO verify NASA's accounting for amounts obligated against established limits for the space station and related space shuttle support. Under the act, obligations are limited to $25 billion for the space station and $17.7 billion for shuttle support. In the past, GAO reported that NASA was unable to provide detailed support for the amounts obligated against the limits. Thus, GAO could not verify the amounts NASA reported to Congress in its fiscal year 2002 through 2004 budget requests. NASA did not report obligations to date against the space station and shuttle cost limits as part of its fiscal year 2005 budget request. As a result, GAO has no basis for verifying NASA's charges against the limits.
Notes: Title from subject line.

"April 2, 2004."

"Gregory D. Kutz, Director, Financial Management and Assurance"--p. 2.

Report to John McCain, Chairman and Ernest Hollings, Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate and Sherwood L. Boehlert, Chairman and Ralph Hall, Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Science, House of Representatives.

"GAO-04-648R."

Includes bibliographic references.

Also available via Internet from the GAO web site (www.gao.gov). Address as of 4/17/06: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04648r.pdf.