Outcome 5.2: Assets
Ensure vital assets are ready, available, and appropriately sized to conduct NASA's missions. Other Information:
To safely and successfully conduct our many missions, we must ensure that we plan for, operate, and sustain the infrastructure
that provides our program and projects with the facilities, capabilities, tools, and services they require. On an ongoing
basis, we must ensure programmatic and institutional types of capabilities are available and effectively sized to support
our current and future missions. Toward that end, we perform periodic Agency-level integrated assessments of the supply of
technical capabilities across all NASA Centers and integrated analyses of the demand for these capabilities across all NASA
programs. This provides us with core information needed to balance institutional supply with program and project demand to
ensure that capabilities are affordable and aligned with our long-term strategic goals. In addition to periodic integrated
assessments, we continuously work on planning, implementing, and evaluating our institutional and program mission support
capabilities through master planning efforts. Active management in this arena helps us to assess institutional performance,
identify and track resolution of identified issues, and coordinate resources across the Agency. This coordination improves
resource planning, centralizing operations where appropriate, and balances cost, quality, and availability of our capabilities
and assets to help minimize institutional risk to our missions. With this systemic view, we are able to incorporate best practices
and standard processes and gain efficiencies by eliminating redundancies and assets that no longer benefit the Agency. Our
integration of master planning guides actions such as consolidating and renewing needed capabilities, developing comprehensive
energy and water conservation plans, planning budgets for repairs, and measuring progress and trends. Master planning also
allows us to perform cross-Center assessments to examine further opportunities for consolidation of capabilities. As we update
our mission plans and translate them into specific programs and projects, the use of master planning links mission support
elements with projected funding to support our programs and their strategic objectives.
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