United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1993-12-09 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:NSIAD-94-25 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-25 P0b002ee180385a75 f:ns94025 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-25 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-25 NSIAD-94-25 Aerospace research Space exploration Archives Data storage Warehouse facilities Federal records management Computerized information systems Records retention Data integrity Future budget projections NASA Data Management Initiative NASA Earth Observing System NASA Earth Observing System Data Information System U.S. Global Change Research Program NASA Tape Staging and Storage Facility Letter Report NSIAD In two 1990 reports (GAO/IMTEC-90-1 and GAO/IMTEC-91-3), GAO criticized the conditions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) data archives, pointing out that the archives were incomplete for many important missions and held no data for others. GAO recommended that NASA improve the physical condition of its archives, obtain and restore all appropriate data from past missions, and revise its data management policies to ensure that all valuable data are adequately achieved in the future. Since then, NASA has improved its data-archiving policies and practices, but further improvements are needed to correct some significant long-standing problems, such as continuing storage of data at "temporary locations" that do not meet archive standards and the lack of periodic inspections of data archives to ensure that data quality is protected. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-25/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-25.htm GAO/NSIAD-94-25 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-25 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-94-25; Space Operations: Archiving Space Science Data Needs Further Management Improvements; Aerospace research Space exploration Archives Data storage Warehouse facilities Federal records management Computerized information systems Records retention Data integrity Future budget projections NASA Data Management Initiative NASA Earth Observing System NASA Earth Observing System Data Information System U.S. Global Change Research Program NASA Tape Staging and Storage Facility