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Space Station: Prime Contract Changes

NSIAD-00-103R Published: May 11, 2000. Publicly Released: May 31, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space station program's prime contract changes during fiscal years 1998 and 1999, focusing on: (1) the number of changes made to the original contract, how many added capability or revised initial designs, and the total estimated cost of the changes; (2) the number of changes that either added capability or revised initial designs and for which work began before NASA and the contractor agreed on a cost estimate and their total estimated cost; (3) the difference between the proposed and final negotiated costs of changes for which work began before NASA and the contractor agreed on a cost; and (4) instances in which NASA spent funds for space station enhancements that were not called for in the original contract's baseline design and are not currently included in NASA's space station program budget.

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Aerospace contractsAerospace researchContract costsContract modificationsCost controlPrice adjustmentsPrime contractsSpace explorationSpace stationCost estimates