Office of Safety and Mission Assurance
E106896
The Office of Safety and Mission Assurance is a NASA headquarters organization responsible for overseeing safety, reliability, and quality assurance for the agency’s missions and programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Office of Safety and Mission Assurance canonical | 1 |
| Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (NASA) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T900107 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Context triple: [NASA Headquarters, hasPart, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance]
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A.
Office of Mission Assurance
The Office of Mission Assurance is a component of the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for ensuring the continuity, security, and resilience of the agency’s critical operations and services.
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B.
Directorate for Mission Services
The Directorate for Mission Services is a major support component of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency that provides essential mission-enabling services such as logistics, infrastructure, and operational support to intelligence activities.
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C.
Office of Technical Development and Mission Support
The Office of Technical Development and Mission Support is a specialized division of the U.S. Secret Service responsible for providing advanced technological capabilities and operational support to protect national leaders and secure critical financial and electronic systems.
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D.
Office of Technical Readiness
The Office of Technical Readiness is a component organization within the Directorate of Science and Technology responsible for ensuring that advanced technologies are prepared, evaluated, and available for operational use.
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E.
NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
The NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate is the division of NASA responsible for planning, managing, and executing the agency’s human spaceflight missions and related operations in low Earth orbit and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Target entity description: The Office of Safety and Mission Assurance is a NASA headquarters organization responsible for overseeing safety, reliability, and quality assurance for the agency’s missions and programs.
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A.
Office of Mission Assurance
The Office of Mission Assurance is a component of the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for ensuring the continuity, security, and resilience of the agency’s critical operations and services.
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B.
Directorate for Mission Services
The Directorate for Mission Services is a major support component of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency that provides essential mission-enabling services such as logistics, infrastructure, and operational support to intelligence activities.
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C.
Office of Technical Development and Mission Support
The Office of Technical Development and Mission Support is a specialized division of the U.S. Secret Service responsible for providing advanced technological capabilities and operational support to protect national leaders and secure critical financial and electronic systems.
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D.
Office of Technical Readiness
The Office of Technical Readiness is a component organization within the Directorate of Science and Technology responsible for ensuring that advanced technologies are prepared, evaluated, and available for operational use.
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E.
NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
The NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate is the division of NASA responsible for planning, managing, and executing the agency’s human spaceflight missions and related operations in low Earth orbit and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA office
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safety oversight organization ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | OSMA ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
NASA aeronautics programs
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NASA human spaceflight missions ⓘ NASA robotic space missions ⓘ NASA science missions ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Science Mission Directorate
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | NASA safety and mission assurance professionals ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mission assurance
ⓘ
quality assurance ⓘ reliability engineering ⓘ risk management ⓘ safety engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
preventing loss of crew
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preventing loss of mission ⓘ protecting NASA assets ⓘ protecting public safety ⓘ |
| hasObjective |
ensure compliance with NASA safety and mission assurance requirements
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ensure safe and successful NASA missions ⓘ |
| hasRole |
independent safety oversight within NASA
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risk management oversight for NASA missions ⓘ safety and mission assurance policy development ⓘ safety and mission assurance technical authority ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | NASA-wide ⓘ |
| oversees |
NASA mission assurance programs
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NASA quality assurance programs ⓘ NASA reliability programs ⓘ NASA safety programs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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linked to:
NASA
|
| partOf | NASA Headquarters ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
mission assurance for NASA programs
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mission assurance policy for NASA ⓘ quality assurance oversight for NASA missions ⓘ reliability oversight for NASA missions ⓘ safety for NASA missions ⓘ safety policy for NASA ⓘ safety standards for NASA ⓘ |
| usesProcess |
independent assessments
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risk assessment ⓘ safety and mission assurance audits ⓘ safety and mission assurance reviews ⓘ |
| website | https://sma.nasa.gov ⓘ |
| worksWith |
NASA centers
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NASA mission directorates ⓘ NASA program offices ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Description of subject: The Office of Safety and Mission Assurance is a NASA headquarters organization responsible for overseeing safety, reliability, and quality assurance for the agency’s missions and programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Office of the Administrator
linked to: Office of Safety and Mission Assurance