PM and SRB Handbooks: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe of NPR 7120.5E

Send Technical Issues to: nasa-virtual-pm-challenge@mail.nasa.gov Lost your bearings traveling through NPR 7120.5E? The PM and SRB Handbooks are here to help! The NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management and the Standing Review Board handbooks will be rolled out at the next Virtual PM Challenge session on Jan 28. These useful guides provide additional information, tables, figures, and concrete examples on the how and why of implementing NPR 7120.5E requirements. Presenters Mike Blythe, Deputy Director of Safety for the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), and James Ortiz, Director of the Independent Program Assessment Office (IPAO) within the Office of Evaluation at NASA Headquarters, will give an overview of the content of these handbooks and include a Q&A session at the end. The moderator is Mark Saunders, formerly of IPAO. The PM and SRB handbooks will be posted electronically for viewing by January 25th at http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCE_rep/OCE_list.cfm. Access to this site is also available through clicking on the "Other Policy Documents" menu in the NODIS library and then selecting the Office of the Chief Engineer tab.