The Lifting Device and Equipment Committee (LDE) met in February to work on streamlining the next revision of the NASA Standard for LDE.

NASA Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) representatives showcased NASA R&M advances at the annual R&M Symposium in January.

NASA’s Range Safety (NRS) Program released its annual report earlier this year. The report, funded by NASA Headquarters, provides an NRS overview for current and potential range users.

Ames Research Center's Mission Assurance System helps safety engineers assess and control risk both on earth and aboard the International Space Station.

NASA’s Electrical Safety Working Group, chaired by Cheevon "Mi-Mi" Lau, held its annual face-to-face meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 11-13, 2014. Representatives from around the agency discussed electrical issues and shared advice with each other.

Frank Groen, director of the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance’s (OSMA) Safety and Assurance Requirements Division at NASA Headquarters, is focusing his division on getting the agency's SMA capabilities ready for NASA's future missions.

NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance held benchmarking visits last fall with two of its prime contractors, The Boeing Company and Aerojet Rocketdyne, to learn about techniques and practices that have proven successful for assuring quality.

The University of Connecticut has released a paper on detecting and avoiding counterfeit integrated circuits, published in the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. The paper has valuable information for NASA and the space community.

Nick Johnson retired March 28, 2014, saying goodbye to NASA after 18 years as NASA's chief scientist of Orbital Debris (OD) and 10 as the OD Program Office's program manager.

A new course, “Hazard Analysis Basics,” is now available in SATERN.