NASA runs into issues with a $2.5 billion IT contact, agency's IG finds

A new NASA information technology program worth $2.5 billion has “significant problems,” the agency’s inspector general has found.

According to the new report, NASA awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services a contract worth $2.5 billion three years ago to provide agency employees with “desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, printers, and other computing equipment” as well as staffing a help desk and providing data backup. The contract was to run through 2015, with options to be extended.