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NASA has made progress toward better management of cost and schedule across its portfolio, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Forty years in the making and no stranger to the threat of cancellation, NASA’s mission to test predictions made by Albert Einstein serves as a testament to a team that was focused, yet flexible.

NASA’s Chief Technology Office released over 1,000 pieces of code to the public in its new online software catalog.

NASA is soliciting ideas that will contribute to NASA’s asteroid redirect mission, including concept ideas for an alternate asteroid capture system, rendezvous sensor systems, secondary payloads, feasibility studies on adapting commercial spacecraft buses, and commercial and international partnership opportunities for the mission.

On March 28, 2014, the Joint Staff Knowledge Management cross-functional team hosted the “14th Quarterly Federal Knowledge Management Community Meeting” at the Pentagon.

Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO) and knowledge points of contact from across NASA will meet at Johnson Space Center on April 7 through April 9, 2014 to address the agency’s key priorities related to knowledge services.

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JPL’s Chief Knowledge Officer recently announced their first issue of the JPL Knowledge Management Newsletter.

Five years ago, NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery on STS-119 on March 15, 2009.