The Flight Projects Directorate (FPD) oversees the comprehensive management and execution of flight projects at Goddard Space Flight Center. Its responsibilities encompass in-house instrument projects and the supporting infrastructure, which includes contract administration, technical and business oversight, mission planning, manufacturing, integration, environmental testing, design and readiness review coordination, launch operations, and on-orbit operations.

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Capability Overview	Description
Configuration Management Applies configuration management to all required spaceflight project products utilizing a customized tool, the Technical Data Management System (TDMS), and NASA configuration management professionals to reduce technical risk and support project management.	Configuration management is applied over a product’s life cycle to provide visibility into and to control changes to performance and functional and physical characteristics, essential to each product and therefore overall project management and reducing technical risks. Configuration management processes define what activities are to be done, when they are to happen in the product life cycle, and what planning and resources are required while providing visibility and product integrity controlling and tracking changes. FPD implements configuration management utilizing its Technical Data Management System (TDMS) tool, which facilitates change and risk management, work order authorizations, problem/problem failure reports, action tracking, photo and video documentation, archives, etc.
Mission Operations Provides mission operations and management across various organizations to support instruments and spacecrafts.	Mission operations and management requires monitoring instrument and spacecraft performance and planning, execution, and analysis of commanding and data handling through various operations centers.
Program and Project Management Provides project management at all levels for various spaceflight and innovative space projects and series, missions, instruments, payloads, and programs etc. across all science and technology disciplines.	Flight project management can be applied across a diverse range of spaceflight and space technology maturation/demonstration projects. Project management focuses on formulation and execution within cost, schedule, and technical commitments while maximizing science and technical return. This includes all milestone commitments from formulation to delivery, launch, or varying lifecycle events while managing compliance with all levels of requirements. Program managers provide oversight across the program for all items within the portfolio, coordination with stakeholders, assessments, and securing necessary resources to support its projects and deliverables.
Resources (Cost and Schedule) Assessments Reviews project requirements to provide independent cost and schedule assessments.	The Flight Projects requirements assessments team provides independent cost and schedule assessments utilizing RAO top-down (not component-level) parametric (not analogous) statistical equations built on actual normalized NASA and industry data of launched missions and represents costs and schedule for factors both internal and external to project control. These assessments provide confidence levels in cost and schedule estimates and commitments.
Risk Management The Flight Projects Directorate employs an array of risk management tools and processes to manage its projects.	Our organization implements risk management tracking, mitigation, and execution aligned with NASA management philosophies to produce missions within cost, schedule, and technical commitments while maintaining compliance with all requirements. Established processes, systems, and tools enable successful execution of these functions.