The United Kingdom's Civil Space Activities: Twenty-first Report of Session 2004-05; Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written EvidenceThe Stationery Office, 9 jun 2005 - 39 pagina's This report follows-on from a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (HC 359 2003-4 ISBN 0102927391) which examined the Partnership of Departments, Agencies and Research Councils that manages the UK space programme. It concludes that the Partnership does not apply risk management techniques consistently across their programmes, and in particular the Beagle 2 project had large risks that were not explicitly addressed in the appraisals of funding applications. It also finds that cost control is compromised by internal information systems and that the Partnership neither summarises the benefits across space programmes nor monitor progress against strategic objectives. |
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