Research Catalog

Developing a risk assessment methodology for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Title

Developing a risk assessment methodology for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Daniel M. Gerstein, James G. Kallimani, Lauren A. Mayer, Lelia Meshkat, Jan Osburg, Paul K. Davis, Blake Cignarella, Clifford A. Grammich.

Author

Gerstein, Daniel M., 1958-

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2016]
©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JBF 17-304	Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

Details

Additional Authors

Description

xx, 92 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map; 24 cm

Summary

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confronts a variety of organizational-level risks within its programs that could influence the success of its missions or programs. Comparing, contrasting, and mitigating these risks require developing a common lens through which to view them. Such an evaluation can increase overall understanding of the risks associated with NASA-level decisions. This report provides NASA's Office of Strategy and Plans with a risk assessment methodology that integrates risk factors and risk management approaches tailored to NASA's management, operations, and acquisition structures. While NASA has deep experience in conducting risk assessments on highly technical issues for individual programs and projects, it has not developed an overarching methodology for thinking about overall NASA-level risk associated with its decisions. For this effort, a methodology was developed for normalizing and comparing supply chain, external dependency, cost and schedule, human capital, organizational and managerial, political, and technical risks. The goal ultimately was to develop a single, overarching, risk-informed decision support methodology for looking at disparate risks through a common lens. The methodology presented is for a non-expert audience so that any practitioner or decisionmaker with any level of training can use it"--

Series Statement

[Research report] ; RR-1537-NASA

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1537-NASA.

Subjects

Note

"Prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-92).

Additional Formats (note)

Also available online.

Contents

Risk assessment and risk-informed decisionmaking methods -- Definition and discussion of the risk factors and components -- Development of the risk-informed decision methodology -- Case studies.

Call Number

JBF 17-304

ISBN

9780833095633
0833095633

LCCN

2016439400

OCLC

953631403

Author

Gerstein, Daniel M., 1958- author.

Title

Publisher

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2016]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Research report] ; RR-1537-NASA

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1537-NASA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-92).

Additional Formats

Also available online.

Added Author

Kallimani, James G., author.

Mayer, Lauren A., author.

Meshkat, Leila, author.

Osburg, Jan, author.

Davis, Paul K., 1943- author.

Cignarella, Blake, author.

Grammich, Clifford A. (Clifford Anthony), 1963- author.

Rand Corporation, issuing body, publisher.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

JBF 17-304

View in Legacy Catalog