Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRED)
NASA’s mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of the Earth. To meet its mission, NASA must provide an innovative work environment and the facilities necessary to meet NASA’s mission.
Strategy: NASA will renew and modernize its facilities to sustain its capabilities, and accommodate those capabilities in the most efficient facilities set practical.
Mission
NASA’s mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of the Earth. To meet its mission, NASA must provide an innovative work environment and the facilities necessary NASA’s mission, the NASA facilities program focuses on:
- Mitigating the risks resulting from a highly complex and aging portfolio.
- Making investments in NASA’s core programs and strategic capabilities
- Reducing operating costs through use of technology to improve maintenance, energy management, sustainability, consolidation of existing facilities, and disposing of un-needed facilities
- Leveraging NASA’s core capabilities through partnerships to make NASA’s unique technical facilities available to the US aerospace infrastructure
NASA is implementing its facilities strategy by maintaining masterplans that establish the long term vision and identify current requirements for the Agency. These masterplans provide the underpinning for investment strategies. Capital investment plans establish near and mid-term investment goals and projects, balancing NASA’s long term goals against near term risk reduction investments and specific program requirements.
Responsibilities
NASA’s Facilities and Real Estate Division, provides functional leadership for all Agency facility engineering programs, including master-planning, facility planning, design, construction, operations, maintenance, real estate management, real estate agreements, disposal, energy management and utility management. The division manages NASA’s Construction of Facilities program.
The division provides consulting and many enabling and analysis tools to support decision making about NASA’s real estate and infrastructure. This includes assessment studies such as the annual facilities assessment, and various studies to align facilities capabilities with program requirements. It also includes focused technical studies to evaluate specific facilities or facilities problems.
The division provides oversight and consulting on the development and execution of partnering agreements that leverage NASA’s real estate.
The division has established best practices in facilities engineering through communities of practice. These Agency wide communities work with professional organizations and industry partners to identify best practices within the industry and integrate the practices into NASA’s facilities program.
