Friedman said one review his office conducted last year turned up backlogs in flight and laboratory test schedules for five of nine nuclear missile warheads and bombs in the operational stockpile.
Last week the Federal Reserve laid out the ground rules for its 2013 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and revealed a significant change for the 19 banks subject to the test.
Orion has just passed its preliminary design review and a test version of the Ares 1 stands ready at the Kennedy Space Centre for a demonstration flight in October.
For instance, last year, a large review study by Angela Lee Duckworth and her team a UPenn that found that rewarding people monetarily for completing an IQ test has a lot to do with how well they do on the test.