"Without greater attention to these important safeguards, NASA and its contracts will continue to exceed planned cost and schedule, resulting in a reduced availability of funds, delayed launches, and the erosion of the public's trust in the Agency's ability to responsibly spend taxpayer money and meet mission goals and objectives - including returning humans safely to the moon and onward to Mars. United Launch Alliance is hoping to receive Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine which will be used as the engine for ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket for an upcoming national security space launch before the end of 2021, the organization’s CEO said in August. However, the assessment still finds the enormous cost of SLS hard to manage for NASA and damaging to its long term " Moon to Mars" plans. Responsibilities: In this role, you will lead a functional engineering team responsible for engine control strategies used to control all rocket engines at Blue Origin. To remedy this, the report makes a number of recommendations to NASA management to increase transparency, accountability and affordability of the SLS booster and engine contracts, including switching from "cost-plus" awards towards a fixed-price contract structure. Blue Origins current plan involves testing two more development engines at. But the "complexity of developing, updating, and integrating new systems along with heritage components proved to be much greater than anticipated," according to the report. Blue Origin has been flight testing the New Shepard rocket and its redundant. The use of heritage RS-25 engines and boosters from the space shuttle and Constellation programs for the new SLS rocket was intended to bring significant cost and schedule savings over developing new systems. These significant increases were caused by a variety of long-standing, interrelated management issues impacting both the SLS development campaign and the wider Artemis program, the report notes, including "some of which represent potential violations of federal contracting requirements."
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