Achieving the Vision for Space Exploration requires NASA to manage and fully leverage the capacities and capabilities of all Agency programs, projects, assets, and resources in order to meet current and future mission needs. To achieve success, the contributions and support of NASA’s mission support functions and staff throughout the Agency are essential and critical.

The Office of Infrastructure (OI), along with the other Headquarters and Center mission support organizations, support NASA mission in the overarching goal to enable mission success by managing institutional risk to mission. In order to achieve this purpose and support the Vision mapped in the NASA Strategic Plan, OI focuses on three primary goals to assure infrastructure assets and capabilities are available to mission as needed. These goals and related objectives focus on reducing risk to missions by using effective and efficient management strategies and operations, and identifying and mitigating infrastructure risks.

• Goal 1: Obtain mission needs by conducting joint planning early and throughout the lifecycle of program and projects.
• Ensure the formal integration of institutional considerations into programs and projects from project inception to completion and final asset disposition to provide more effective support to the mission.
• Prioritize and allocate infrastructure resources to balance optimal support of mission needs with externally levied requirements.


• Goal 2: Ensure that infrastructure, assets, and capabilities are aligned and configured to mission and available when needed.
• Leverage and size assets, capabilities and resources to meet mission needs, eliminate excess capacity, and scale asset performance accordingly.
• Transition Shuttle infrastructure assets as appropriate, by developing and implementing disposition plans of unneeded assets to effectively and efficiently support the Vision for Space Exploration.


• Goal 3: Implement risk mitigation and sustainability practices across the Agency’s infrastructure to prevent adverse mission impacts, protect mission resources, and enable the NASA mission to the fullest extent possible.
• Integrate continuous risk management practices into the life cycle management of NASA’s infrastructure to enhance mission support and sustainability.
• Enhance mission performance and reduce life cycle costs of operations, maintenance, and disposition of infrastructure assets to ensure maximum funding is available to mission programs and projects through sustainability design practices and the implementation of new technologies.