Christina Chaplain: Heading off management disasters at NASA

When managers make bad decision, the result can lead to disaster. That's the case at NASA, where dealing with management problems has become the norm at the...

NASA is steadily working on an ambitious plan to launch astronauts into deep space … with Mars as the ultimate goal. But it’s running into program management problems that, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), have led to disaster. Christina Chaplain, director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO,  talked dealing with such problems on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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