NASA 2021 Cost Symposium Presentations

Session 1 – 31 March 2021

2021 Session 1 Agenda

 Welcome – Year in Review

 Guest Speaker Mr. Steve Shinn – Acting NASA Chief Financial Officer

 7120.5F Programmatic Policy Update

 Early Effort and Schedule Models for Agile Projects in the DHS

 Schedule Assessment Initiatives at NRO

 Rethinking the Goals of a Program amid Baseline Overruns

 Understanding the Critical Role of Uncertainty in Project Management

Session 2 – 7 April 2021

2021 Session 2 Agenda

 When the Candles Cost More than the Cake: Estimating the Cost of Longevity for Long-Lived Missions

 Which Risk Will Ruin My PM’s Day and Why

 Lessons Learned from Advance Air Mobility Systems

 Historical Perspective of Alternative Acquisition Approaches for Launch Systems

 Software Cost Estimation for COVID

 Rescuing a Project in Crisis: The ISS Research FBCE experience

 Desko Inferno – Overcoming COVID Hurdles to Light Our Fire

 SLS Stages Independent Cost Estimates Lessons Learned

Session 3 – 14 April 2021

2021 Session 3 Agenda

 NASA PCEC v2.3 (For Real, This Time!)

 Mission Class’s Impact, Imputation, Multiple Builds and More: New Features in the Latest Version of NICM

 Space Scientific Instrument Taxonomy (SSIT) Version 2.0

 Online NASA Software Estimating Tools (ONSET): A Suite of Web-Based Cost Analysis Tools

 Parametric Cost Model for Ground and Space Telescopes

 Mission Operations Cost Estimation Tool (MOCET) 2020/2021 Updates

 A New Schedule Analytics Tool

Session 4 – 21 April 2021

2021 Session 4 Agenda

 Assessing Regression Methods via Monte Carlo Simulations

 Leveraging Public Data to Reconstruct the Cost History of Planetary Exploration

 Salvaging Data Records with Missing Data: Data Imputation using the Multivariate t Distribution

 Summarizing Schedules using Hidden Markov Models and Natural Language Processing

 2021 NASA Cost Analysis Data Requirements

 The Inestimable Heaviness of BGO Crystals

 Risk Analysis of Large Integrated Project Schedules in Aerospace Industry

 Parametric Joint Confidence Level Analysis: A Practical Cost and Schedule Risk Management Approach

Session 5 – 28 April 2021

2021 Session 5 Agenda

 Integrating Project Planning and Control Disciplines to Produce More Reliable EVM Data

 Leveraging Scheduling Productivity with Practical Scheduling Techniques

 Advanced Estimating Technology Estimating Paper

 Cost Considerations for Estimating SmallSat I&T

 Progress and Challenges with Interplanetary Small Satellite Missions

 Cost Analysis for Deep Space SmallSat Constellation Concepts

 Estimating the Costs of Flagship Mission PM/SE/MA