In his current position, Kauniste will be enhancing the supplier qualification process and surveillance management /oversight for NASA programs. Kauniste has worked to improve productivity and reduce inefficiencies/cost throughout his career.

Valle Kauniste, located in the Johnson Space Center Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, is the full-time delegated program manager for the new Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) program. This SCRM program is considered part of OSMA’s Quality Assurance discipline, residing in the Safety and Assurance Requirements Division. Valle Kauniste Supply Chain Risk Management Program Manager The SCRM program is responsible for managing the Supplier Assessment System Database and for working closely with the digital enterprise teams to develop enterprise-level Supply Chain Risk Management data acquisition, analytics, and planning tools to track, trend, analyze, communicate, and manage supply chain risk. These approaches include developing the methodologies for gauging NASA supply chain health, enhancing the agency’s process for Government Contract Quality Assurance increasing program management insight and accountability pertaining to supply chain risk providing training on Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and NASA FAR supplement clauses driving greater uses of risk-based decision-making into Quality surveillance practices providing leadership to the Defense Contract Management Agency and support contractors, coordinating budgets with the Office of Procurement when programs and projects engage them for Quality surveillance tasks (i.e., Contract Administration and Audit Services budget and process management) redesigning standard NASA Forms (e.g., NF 1430B, NF 1707) providing leadership for program’s and project’s execution of supplier audits and assessments and enhancing processes for cyber security threat, fraud, and counterfeit part avoidance programs.

The Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) program is a part of the Quality Assurance discipline and focuses on strategies, tools, techniques and guidance that generate knowledge about supplier risk and create approaches for maximizing successful Quality outcomes throughout NASA’s supply chain for mission hardware.

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