Will there be an official public NASA report on the ongoing Boeing Starliner problems? (Boeing Crew Flight Test.) This would be any official mishap, incident, accident, near miss, or lessons learned report that discusses details about problems encountered on Boe-CFT, including any analysis of causes including proximate or root causes.
Close date is set for 2 years after launch. If there appears to be such a report in the works, close date may be extended. If there is no news as of close date, this will resolve No.
If someone dies, or something goes wrong in a way that causes further hardware damage (during re-entry or during ISS proximity operations, for example), there definitely will be. We get reports in response to, say, Challenger or Columbia. When it's an FAA thing, we get mishap reports on stuff like IFT-3. But as best I can tell, the FAA doesn't have much jurisdiction or relevance to what's going wrong with Starliner. (Is there any chance I'm mistaken and we get an FAA mishap report instead? Should I update the language here to include that?)
And things are definitely off-nominal enough to have substantial agency impacts -- people are working overtime on things, and priorities have shifted strongly at relevant labs and test sites, in ways that impact other programs.
But does all that imply we'll get a report from it? I'm not sure either!
I think a GAO report is unlikely to do anything about technical root cause analysis, or technical contributing factors, which is the thing I'm trying to get at.
Is the problem that Boeing failed to pass on requirements? That the thrusters did not meet requirements? Were the thrusters not adequately tested in an appropriate environment? Who should have known to do better testing? Did NASA program managers allow Boeing to skip tests because Boeing and Aerojet have good industry reputations? Etc.
(I had been thinking about writing questions like those in a multi-outcome question about "what will the Starliner report say", and then I realized I didn't know whether we'd get one!)
But I'm also on board with not changing the question even if I didn't quite manage to capture what I wanted.