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.

The most recent EEE Parts Bulletin provides information on activities related to Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical parts that occurred at NASA between August and December 2013.

The July 2013 issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News included an article on cored impact features from the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2's radiator. Continue reading for the full article.