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NASA NTRS1994

Process Product Integrity Audits: A Hardware Auditing Technique for the '90s'

The Space Shuttle program has experienced hardware problems that have delayed several shuttle launches. A NASA review determined that the problems could have been prevented. NASA further concluded that a new kind of Quality emphasis at all Space Shuttle prime contractors and subcontractors was necessary to ensure mission success. To meet this challenge, NASA initiated an innovative review process called Process/Product Integrity (PPIA).

Taylor, Mike↗

NASA NTRS2002

Software Assists in Extensive Environmental Auditing

The Base Enivronmental Management System (BEMS) is a Web-based application program for managing and tracking audits by the Environmental Office of Stennis Space Center in conformity with standard 14001 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 14001). (This standard specifies requirements for an environmental-management system.) BEMS saves time by partly automating what were previously manual processes for creating audit checklists; recording and tracking audit results; issuing, tracking, and implementing corrective-action requests (CARs); tracking continuous improvements (CIs); and tracking audit results and statistics. BEMS consists on an administration module and an auditor module. As its name suggests, the administration module is used to administer the audit. It helps administrators to edit the list of audit questions; edit the list of audit locations; assign manditory questions to locations; track, approve, and edit CARs; and edit completed audits. The auditor module is used by auditors to perform audits and record audit results: It helps the auditors to create audit checklists, complete audits, view completed audits, create CARs, record and acknowledge CIs, and generate reports from audit results.

Callac, Christopher↗

NASA NTRS2002

Software Assists in Extensive Environmental Auditing

The Base Environmental Management System (BEMS) is a Web-based application program for managing and tracking audits by the Environmental Office of Stennis Space Center in conformity with standard 14001 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 14001). (This standard specifies requirements for an environmental-management system.) BEMS saves time by partly automating what were previously manual processes for creating audit checklists; recording and tracking audit results; issuing, tracking, and implementing corrective-action requests (CARs); tracking continuous improvements (CIs); and tracking audit results and statistics. BEMS consists of an administration module and an auditor module. As its name suggests, the administration module is used to administer the audit. It helps administrators to edit the list of audit questions; edit the list of audit locations; assign mandatory questions to locations; track, approve, and edit CARs; and edit completed audits. The auditor module is used by auditors to perform audits and record audit results: it helps the auditors to create audit checklists, complete audits, view completed audits, create CARs, record and acknowledge CIs, and generate reports from audit results.

Callac, Christopher↗

NASA NTRS2003

Software Assists in Extensive Environmental Auditing

Callac, Christopher↗

NASA NTRS1990

NASA Audit Follow-up Handbook

This NASA Audit Follow-up Handbook is issued pursuant to the requirements of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-50, Audit Follow-up, dated September 29, 1982. It sets forth policy, uniform performance standards, and procedural guidance to NASA personnel for use when considering reports issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), other executive branch audit organizations, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), and the General Accounting Office (GAO). It is intended to: specify principal roles; strengthen the procedures for management decisions (resolution) on audit findings and corrective action on audit report recommendations; emphasize the importance of monitoring agreed upon corrective actions to assure actual accomplishment; and foster the use of audit reports as effective tools of management. A flow chart depicting the NASA audit and management decision process is in Appendix A. This handbook is a controlled handbook issued in loose-leaf form and will be revised by page changes. Additional copies for internal use may be obtained through normal distribution channels.

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NASA NTRS2005

Safety Auditing and Assessments

Safety professionals typically do not engage in audits and independent assessments with the vigor as do our quality brethren. Taking advantage of industry and government experience conducting value added Independent Assessments or Audits benefits a safety program. Most other organizations simply call this process "internal audits." Sources of audit training are presented and compared. A relation of logic between audit techniques and mishap investigation is discussed. An example of an audit process is offered. Shortcomings and pitfalls of auditing are covered.

Goodin, James Ronald (Ronnie)↗

NASA NTRS2018

NASA Feedback to DLA Land & Maritime Moratorium on Wafer Fab Audits

On September 29, 2017 the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Land and Maritime, announced that on September 1, 2017 they had begun a moratorium on the auditing of wafer fabrication facilities (fabs) used in the production of semiconductor die for military (MIL) qualified integrated circuits and discrete semiconductors (transistors and diodes). The announcement said the moratorium would last for six months initially and would apply to all wafer fabs qualified to MIL-PRF-19500 (discretes) and MIL-PRF-38535 (ICs) located, onshore or offshore. The stated rationale behind this action was to give DLA time to evaluate the risk of modifying current surveillance practices across 70+ Federal Stock Classes (FSC) under the jurisdiction of the DLA Qualifying Activity (VQ). The objective was to free up the resources used in these audits so they could be redirected towards audits of other commodities which were under resourced, notably connectors. In the announcement letter, DLA-VQ requested data from the community to assist with decisions on wafer fab re-audit cycle modifications. NASA used available information on current and historical audit schedules to gather such data and analyzed it to provide an in-depth understanding of the impact of locations, part types, in-house or out-of-house fabs on those schedules over time. This presentation provides the results of NASA's data analysis and suggest some changes to auditing practices that could increase efficient use of resources without significant increases in risk.

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DOE OSTI2024

Demonstration and Validation of a Virtual Energy Audit Tool for DoD Buildings

Electricity consumption has been in the spotlight as part of the battle for sustainability resulting in legislative measures to try and reduce the amount of energy used. EISA 432 and the Energy Act of 2020 are two examples that require federal facilities to investigate buildings and find saving opportunities through energy audits. EDIFES solves this problem by providing fully virtual audits. Only five inputs are needed (15-minute interval electricity consumption, location, square footage, number of stories, and building end use) to produce complete energy audits. The virtual audit is automated, making them inexpensive and the small number of inputs allows a large number of buildings to be entered quickly. During this project, EDIFES performed energy audits on hundreds of buildings to ensure proper functionality and workflow. Over 250 DoD buildings received energy audits that then had their results posted to an interactive dashboard with portfolio rankings. Several validation methods were employed. All confirmed that EDIFES's methods worked as expected and with a high degree of accuracy.

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NASA NTRS1980

Photovoltaic system criteria documents. Volume 6: Criteria for auditing photovoltaic system applications and experiments. Revision A

The criteria is defined for auditing photovoltaic system applications and experiments. The purpose of the audit is twofold: to see if the application is meeting its stated objectives and to measure the application's progress in terms of the National Photovoltaic Program's goals of performance, cost, reliability, safety, and socio-environmental acceptance. The information obtained from an audit will be used to assess the status of an application and to provide the Department of Energy with recommendations on the future conduct of the application. Those aspects are covered of a site audit necessary to produce a systematic method for the gathering of qualitative and quantitative data to measure the success of an application. A sequence of audit events and guidelines for obtaining the required information is presented.

Koenig, John C.↗

NASA NTRS1994

John F. Kennedy Space Center, Safety, Reliability, Maintainability and Quality Assurance, Survey and Audit Program

This document is the product of the KSC Survey and Audit Working Group composed of civil service and contractor Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance (SR&QA) personnel. The program described herein provides standardized terminology, uniformity of survey and audit operations, and emphasizes process assessments rather than a program based solely on compliance. The program establishes minimum training requirements, adopts an auditor certification methodology, and includes survey and audit metrics for the audited organizations as well as the auditing organization.

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DOE OSTI2020

FEMP Facility Evaluation (Audit) Decision Tree

This document is a resource to be used in concert with FEMP Audit Definitions, FEMP Consolidated Facility Management Guidance, and agency best practices and expert judgment—for agencies to use to determine the best approaches to evaluate their facilities. It features a decision tree that provides a framework for agencies to interpret gathered facility data to understand the existing conditions; benchmark the facility against others in the portfolio to determine whether an on-site or remote audit is appropriate for a facility; determine the best remote or on-site audit level of detail to meet agency facility auditing goals, such as meeting Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requirements and developing projects; and improve their energy and water management programs.

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NASA NTRS2023

Towards Streamlining Auditing for Compliance With Requirements in Open-Source Software at NASA

Context: NASA requires all software to meet several requirements (NPR 7150.2) depending on software criticality. The instantiation of these requirements may vary per project; however, once decided upon, projects must undergo audits to evaluate compliance with these requirements. Aim: We propose that audit effort can be reduced when requirements are realized by leveraging commonly used open-source infrastructure for version control, issue tracking and continuous integration, and the generated records are analyzed using a repository mining software tool to quantify process compliance. Method: We perform a case study in the NASA-funded Copilot project, utilizing Kaiaulu, a repository mining software tool. We define four software compliance metrics based on the Copilot’s requirements, and analyze their impact on source code quality. Results: Our work demonstrates how it is possible to leverage existing open source tools and platforms to facilitate software certification and qualification, and to streamline the auditing process required even when stringent requirements must be enforced. Conclusion: Together, both project and tool can be utilized to visualize project compliance, and metrics can be defined to more easily identify process irregularities to minimize auditing efforts. Project Repository: github.com/Copilot-Language/copilot Tool Repository: github.com/sailuh/kaiaulu

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DOE OSTI2022

Scaling Building Energy Audits through Machine Learning Methods on Novel Drone Image Data

Building energy audits are time-consuming and labor-intensive. This paper describes a new method using machine learning (ML) techniques on novel data sources (drone images) to improve the identification of building characteristics and retrofit opportunities, and thereby reduce the effort for audits. The new ML method includes: (1) Building footprint extraction using line extraction, polygonization, and polygon-merging, (2) Building envelope extraction using PIX4d modeling software to reconstruct a building 3D model, (3) Visualization tool for viewing images from the 3D model, (4) Window-to-wall ratio (WWR) using state-of-art deep neural network semantic segmentation, (5) Envelope thermal anomaly detection using an unsupervised machine learning clustering algorithm, and (6) Rooftop energy equipment detection based on an object detection algorithm. The testing of this method involved a comparison of additional ML-generated information overlaid on current ‘state-of-practice’ audit and remote assessment baselines using evaluation metrics: labor time and associated cost, marginal benefits of using ML-generated information in workflows for audits and remote assessments, integration potential with existing processes and tools, and replicability/scalability of the method. In two test buildings in California that had comprehensive drawings and meter data available, the ML method effectively generated a building footprint, envelope, rooftop equipment, WWR, and locations of envelope thermal anomalies. Projected target segments of the ML method are sites with minimal drawings and energy data, and underserved sectors such as multistoried housing, disadvantaged communities, and schools for which the ML method can enable identification of building asset characteristics and prioritization of envelope retrofits and decentralized energy equipment retrofits.

Singh, Reshma↗

DOE OSTI2021

CY20 AIHA Internal Audit of ALAB and NIF-HPL and CY20 Management Review of ALAB

An internal audit was performed in ALAB to ISO 17025:2017; EPA LQST and AIHA requirements using the current AIHA Checklist. The scope of the internal audit was the annual review of AIHA-accredited industrial hygiene methods performer in both ALAB and NIF HPL. The Internal audit resulted in 3 deficiencies and 3 comments.

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DOE OSTI2021

Document Traceability Internal Audit of the Analytical Laboratory Report on 08-26-2021

An internal audit was performed in ALAB 8/25/21 to the NELAC 2016 Standard requirements using the NELAC 2016 checklist (TNI 2016 CSDP-Volume1Checklist-Master-2-15-18-v9). The scope of the internal audit was a document traceability of the environmental testing in LRF-00118, LRF00095, and LRF 00133 performed in ALAB. The internal audit resulted in five deficiencies and two comments. The deficiencies were addressed using the ALAB non-conformance reporting system, see ALAB NCRs 10002742-10002746. FRM-5100 Management Observation and NCRs are attached.

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NASA NTRS1988

The RIACS Intelligent Auditing and Categorizing System

The organization of the RIACS auditing package is described along with how to installation instructions and how to interpret the output. How to set up both local and remote file system auditing is given. Logging is done on a time driven basis, and auditing in a passive mode.

Bishop, Matt↗

DOE OSTI2022

Analyzing the Multiscale Impacts of Implementing Energy-Efficient HVAC Improvements Through Energy Audits and Economic Input–Output Analysis

Abstract Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are usually an industry’s highest consumer of energy, most of which goes toward space cooling in buildings. Industrial energy-efficiency audits not only benefit manufacturers but also generate significant economic and environmental benefits to localities, states, and the nation. This article analyzes the micro- and macro scale impacts of implementing energy-efficient HVAC systems by integrating the industrial building energy data with the macroeconomic regional economic flow model. Micro-scale data include 10 years of historical energy, cost, and carbon dioxide savings achieved from energy-efficient HVAC implementation offered to manufacturers through industrial energy audits. The data were integrated into the macroeconomic modeling framework to illuminate the cascading regional economic impacts of implementing energy-efficient HVAC recommendations in manufacturing facilities. Results show that if recommendations had been implemented throughout all manufacturers in the region, $656 M energy costs would have been directly saved, 7.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions would have been avoided, and 4387 jobs could have been created, resulting in a total annual economic impact of $899 M stemming from direct, indirect, and induced impacts. The results offer insight into how industrial energy systems can be designed and provide models for how communities can accomplish a net-zero society.

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DOE OSTI2022

MFVI Energy Efficiency Audit Training - Module 1.1: Introduction to Efficient Lighting [Slides]

This guide is designed to help trained energy efficiency professionals conduct an energy efficiency audit for commercial and industrial buildings, particularly for micro-, small-, and medium-sized businesses in Mexico. This guide is focused on auditing lighting systems. As such, it will assist its user in determining the optimal lighting for a given space and then identifying the most efficient means of delivering that lighting.

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