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.

NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance debuted the new “System Safety II” training course, which presents the new NASA System Safety framework, on Jan. 22-23, 2014.

Listen to Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance Terry Wilcutt’s Safety Message in honor of NASA’s Remembrance Day.

We recently launched this new website to provide Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) news to NASA’s SMA community.

January's issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News featured an article on the release of NASA's Orbital Debris Engineering Model, ORDEM 3.0. Read the full article for details.

NASA developed the Meteoroid Engineering Model to mitigate the risk associated with the sporadic meteoroid environment, which can damage spacecraft.