In accordance with the President’s Management Council, NASA implements the following Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for quality of information.

Section 515, “OMB Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/iqg_oct1notice.html

*7-8-2019 Update Based on the review it has conducted, NASA believes that it does not currently produce or sponsor the distribution of influential scientific information (including Highly Influential Scientific Assessments) within the definitions promulgated by OMB. As a result, at this time NASA has no agenda of forthcoming influential scientific disseminations to post on its website in accordance with OMB’s Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review.

NASA Guidelines for Quality of Information

Requests to NASA for Review (RFR)	NASA Responses to Requests for Review
RFR_10-28-06_Mars Exploration Rover (73KB)	RFR_Response_10-28-06_Mars Exploration Rover (102KB)

Posting of Correction Requests. On August 30, 2004, OMB instructed agencies to post their information quality correction requests for FY2004 and for subsequent years on “publicly-available web pages.”.

Requests to NASA for Correction (RFC)	NASA Responses to Requests for Correction
RFC_10-31-02_THEMIS Download Discrepancy (97KB)	RFC_Response_IQ2002-0001 (59KB)
RFC_08-15-09_sea level information (192KB)	RFC_Response_sea_level_information (56KB)
RFC_01-26-10_NASA Technical Paper 1622 (195KB)	UPDATED Technical Paper 1622 (1.2MB)
RFC_02_27_2014_TM_2004_213283	RFC_Response_TM_2004_213283
RFC_07_06_2014_Rose	RFC_Response_Rose
RFC_07_19_2019_CEI 97 Percent Correction	RFC_03_11_2020_CEI 97 Percent Response
RFC _04_14_2020_CEI 97 Percent Final Appeal	RFC _06_30_21_CEI Final Appeal Response

OMB “Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review”
M-05-03: Issuance of OMB’s “Final Information Quality Bulleting for Peer Review”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/omb/memoranda/fy2005/m05-03.pdf
Revised Information Quality Bulletin on Peer Review (April 15, 2004)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/omb/inforeg/peer_review041404.pdf

Peer Review Agenda

Based on the review conducted, NASA has not identified any upcoming influential scientific information (including highly influential scientific assessments) within the definitions promulgated by OMB’s Bulletin M-05-03, Final Information Quality Bulletin on Peer Review. Therefore NASA has no agenda of forthcoming influential scientific disseminations to post on its website in accordance with the Bulletin. If such documents are identified, they will be posted for public review.

Reporting

NASA Information Quality Annual Reports:

• NASA FY 2003 Information Quality Annual Report
• NASA FY 2005 Information Quality Annual Report
• NASA FY 2006 Information Quality Annual Report
• NASA FY 2007 Information Quality Annual Report
• NASA FY 2010 Information Quality Annual Report
• NASA FY 2014 Information Quality Annual Report

NASA Peer Review Bulletin Annual Reports:

• NASA FY 2006 Peer Review Bulletin Annual Report
• NASA FY 2007 Peer Review Bulletin Annual Report
• NASA FY 2010 Peer Review Bulletin Annual Report

CONTACT

The point of contact for all issues related to the NASA Information Quality Act Peer Review Agenda is:

Office of the Chief Information Officer
Hq-info-quality@nasa.gov