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Bringing in outside expertise, a systemic reorganization is now underway
to ensure more steady development, launches, and operations at JAXA.
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JAXA's Commitments (as of January, 2005)
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Committee for Assessment of Essential Development Issues
Investigates and assesses background factors in recent accidents and failures, including the H-IIA F6 accident. Establishes basic principles to be applied to practical measures, and systems that ensure more consistent development. (Formed on December 20, 2003)
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Essential Development Issues Consulting Committee
Acquires
advice from specialists, both domestically and internationally, to achieve more
consistent rocket and satellite development, launching and operations, from both
mid- and long-term perspectives. (Formed on June 21, 2004)
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Office of Reliability Oversight
Promotes
maximization of reliability across the entire organization, and ensures the accomplishment
of successful missions. (Formed in July, 2004)
"Building
a Better Organization to Guarantee Successful Missions"
Hideo Hasegawa, Director, Safety and Mission Assurance Department
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Research and Development Strategic Planning Committee
Studies
and assesses developmental and organizational methodologies, and how they can
be practically applied to accomplishing successful missions. (Formed in July,2004)
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Office of Reliability Promotion and Evaluation
Facilitates
knowledge-sharing between JAXA specialists and scientists from other fields that
are unrelated to space development. As an independent body, and with a third-party
perspective, it assesses the status of projects in development, and monitors
all work being done towards greater reliability. In addition to project evaluation
and monitoring the activities of the Office of Reliability Oversight, it also
makes recommendations to the president of JAXA. (Formed in August, 2004)
"Achieving
World-Leading Space Development"
Setsuro Sekiya, Director, Office of Reliability Promotion and Evaluation
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