tailieunhanh - PREPARING FOR THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM’S RETIREMENT: A REVIEW OF NASA’S DISPOSITION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT

As set out in the relevant Decree, the mission of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC) is to assist Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences as well as the Ministry of Education and Culture in matters relating to the evaluation of higher education institutions (HEIs). FINHEEC supports HEIs and their international competitiveness through evaluations, and by supporting quality work and disseminating good practice. The Evaluation Council consists of twelve members representing universities, universities of applied sciences, students and working life. Decisions made by the Evaluation Council are prepared and implemented by Secretariat, led by Secretary General | December 7 2010 Audit Report Office of Audits Preparing for the space shuttle Program s Retirement a Review of NASA s Disposition of information technology Equipment Office of inspector general National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report No. IG-11-009 Assignment No. A-09-018-01 Final report released by Paul K. Martin Inspector General Acronyms CIO DOD FY IT ITAR NISPOM NIST NPD NPR ODIN OIG USA Chief Information Officer Department of Defense Fiscal Year Information Technology International Traffic in Arms Regulations National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual National Institute of Standards and Technology NASA Policy Directive NASA Procedural Requirements Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA Office of Inspector General United Space Alliance Report No. IG-11-009 December 7 2010 Overview Preparing for the Space Shuttle Program s Retirement A Review of NASA s Disposition of information technology Equipment The Issue After 38 years and more than 130 missions the Space Shuttle Program is nearing retirement and therefore the disposition of Program equipment including the Shuttles themselves spare parts and processing and information technology IT equipment poses a significant challenge. Given the scope of these activities the NASA Office of Inspector General OIG is reviewing NASA s controls over the disposition of Program property. This report focuses on the disposition of Shuttle-related IT equipment much of which contains sensitive information regarding Space Shuttle operations and maintenance NASA requires the sanitization of any electronic storage media that has ever contained NASA information before it is reassigned transferred or Sanitization is the process of removing data from media and may involve the overwriting degaussing or destruction of the media so that it is impossible or nearly impossible to recover the data previously stored In addition NASA requires testing to verify that sanitization procedures .