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.

The Office of Safety and Mission Assurance-funded software risk tool documentation and training project leveraged previous development and application work performed in conjunction with the former NASA Constellation program. The project resulted in multiple products, including the publication of the Context-Based Software Risk Model Application Guide.

Goddard Space Flight Center’s annual Safety Awareness Campaign presentations will be shared with the agency via webcast. Employees from all centers are invited to tune in to learn about fire safety as well as personal and workplace safety.

Hear Dr. Mark Matney from NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office discuss orbital debris and space safety in the March Safety Message.

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.

Recent changes to NPR 8715.7, Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) Payload Safety Program, reflect new program standards and improve the overall ELV payload safety review and approval process.

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.