mr. jurczyk for five minutes. mr. jurczyk: mr. chairman and members of the committee, i am pleased to discuss nasa's accomplishments and challenges. it is focused on its mission of science and exploration. in support of this mission, they have developed a process for program formulation, approval, implementation and evaluation. nasa challenge is to develop and improve our project management capabilities to ensure efficiency and accountability. must execute and deliver missions on costs and on schedule. we have to execute in an environment that includes significant risk and we are focused on identifying and characterizing risks as quickly as possible. we must take corrective actions promptly whether mitigating, accepting, evaluating and onitoring eyed fide risks. products through a few decision gates. at key point decision, the agency delivers a project within a cost and schedule. this agency baseline commitment is against which we evaluate performance. beginning in 2009, nasa adopted a join confidence level to producing estimates

mr. jurczyk let's discuss january 2018 the gao found that commercial group program contractors they had additionalschedule delays for their demonstration for certification on the vehicles for spaceflight that could jeopardize the ability to maintain access to the international space station so will there be a cap? >> no. we have taken action and other actions we can take to minimize the risk so first is to buy three more seats on soy used to extend that ability to minimize the risk between the soy use contracted seed sending and a couple other things we are looking at is the bro -- boeing crew flight and the other is extending missions 140 days at 190 days and those are other actions we can take. >> but you confident the direction of contractors don't have to use those measures? >> this summer we will have an assessment of both the space x and we will have a better handle whether or not we do take those additional measures over the summer and we can report back on that. >> fair enough. i yield back. >> thank you. i recognize the gentleman from virginia. >> chairman thank you very much. ms. chaplin