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Constellation Systems

The Constellation Systems Program supports the President's Vision for Space Exploration by enabling safe, affordable, human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The program is developing new vehicle systems, including the Orion crew exploration vehicle and the Ares I launch vehicle.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has ambitious but achievable long-term goals. The new vehicle systems will support human spaceflight by 2014 and human expeditions to the moon by 2020.
  • The program is early in its formulation. The program has awarded major contracts on schedule, but has yet to undergo comprehensive independent evaluation or detail the plannned transition of activities from the Space Operations program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Planning evaluation of the new vehicle systems' cost, technical performance, and development schedule by analysts outside the Constellation Systems Program in 2007.
  • Developing and baselining metrics for transition of activities and assets from Space Operations to Constellation Systems.

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