The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for the following:
Provides for the oversight and financial management of Agency resources relating to programs and operations, ensuring strategic alignment with Agency vision and mission, including all resources aspects of the planning, programming, and budgeting process.
Reviews, assesses, and validates Agency resources requirements and requests on the basis of strategic alignment, priorities, quality, and performance, including recommendations to the Administrator for fiscal resources approvals and authorizations.
Establishes standards for and ensures performance of economic and cost analyses for Agency assessments of ongoing and proposed programs and program alternatives.
Develops and maintains an integrated Agency planning, budgeting, performance reporting, accounting, and financial management system, including financial reporting and financial management internal controls.
Monitors the financial execution of the Agency budget in relation to actual expenditures, monitors quality and performance of ongoing activities, analyzes ongoing activities to proactively identify potential performance problems, and prepares and submits timely financial and performance reports to the Administrator.
Prepares and transmits an annual financial statement and budget information to the Administrator, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Congressional Committees of Jurisdiction, and other authorities who review NASA's financial matters.
Works with the Comptroller General and administration officials to facilitate financial management improvements consistent with the CFO Act.
Coordinates Annual Performance Plan and Performance Report in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Public Law 103-62), as amended.
Provides independent cost estimates in support of Agency program approvals and evaluations and establishes standards for cost analysis Agencywide.
Provides direct financial advice and support to Center Directors and Program Managers across all NASA operational units.
Serves as the NASA Senior Procurement Executive.
Prescribes policies, regulations, and procedures governing the conduct of all NASA procurement and financial assistance activities (excluding the Space Act) within the framework of national and Agency policies and applicable laws and regulations.
Develops, publishes for public comment, and issues the Federal Acquisition Regulation in consonance with the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration.
Plans, coordinates, reviews, evaluates, and ensures the timeliness and effectiveness of the full spectrum of NASA procurement and financial assistance functions (grant and cooperative agreements).
Ensures effective NASA-wide performance of the procurement and financial assistance functions, including the development and implementation of initiatives. Accomplishes oversight through the self-assessment process, comprehensive
Procurement Management Surveys, and special studies, as well as reviews, concurs, or approves various procurement/financial assistance documents.
Serves as ex officio member of all Source Evaluation Boards (SEB) in which the Administrator or Headquarters designee is the Source Selection Official (SSO) and attends the related SEB presentations as staff adviser to the SSO.
Maintains liaison and represents NASA on procurement and financial assistance functions with other NASA organizations, other Government agencies, foreign governments, industry, and nonprofit organizations and academia.
Establishes procurement regulatory coverage and guidance to support implementation of socioeconomic programs and policies in Agency acquisition laws and regulations.
The Assistant Administrator for Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, pursuant to Section 15(K) of the Small Business Act, maintains a special reporting relationship to the Deputy Administrator, and:
a. Serves as the senior NASA advocate for small and disadvantaged business utilization.
b. Develops and advises management on policies and procedures for the Agencywide
implementation of applicable laws and regulations pertaining to small and disadvantaged
business utilization.
c. Negotiates Agency annual socioeconomic goals with the Small Business Administration (SBA).
d. Oversees Agency compliance with Federal legislation requiring specific percentage goals of
NASA contract dollars to small and disadvantaged businesses.
