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NASA 2023 Cost Symposium Presentations

1 Challenges Aggregating Multiple, Interdependent Projects into a Program Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis Model

David Hulett, Ian Bailey, Lorrie Tietze


3 Propulsion Cost Model Update

Richard Webb


4 Complexity the Right Way

Andy Prince


5 MBSE Cost Study

Brook Cavell, Kirsten Lam


9 Getting More out the MS Project IMS

William Paradis


10 The Changing Role of NASA Cost Analysis

John Dotson


11 EVM Year in Review

Jon Fleming, Kristen Kehrer


12 CADRe: Year in Review

Eric Plumer


15 Minding your P’s and Q’s: Escalation in The NNSA

Mike Metcalf, Alan Karickhoff, Brian Flynn, Omar Akbik, Ray Vera

16 How Effective are NASA’s Collaborations with the Industry?

Moon Kim


17 What’s a Metric Got to Do to be useful ‘round here?: A SCaN Schedule Case Study

Kailey Melton, David Payne


18 The Schedule Deep Dive – An IBR Head Start?

Christopher Sadler, Melissa Lee


 19 PCEC Robotic Missions – Challenges Getting Data and Statistics to Cooperate

Shawn Hayes, Mark Jacobs, Brian Alford


23 Preventing Increased Cost with Sound IGCEs

John Moore, Erin Roberts


25 You Get What Pay For: The New Frontiers Operations Cost Cap

Ben Clare, Kathy Kha, Rachel Shoulder


28 Assessing Program Level Objectives of Human Mars Missions Using Portfolio Optimization Methods

Bill O’Neill


29 Test Facility Request System (TFRS) Augmentations: Integration and Automation of Facilities Scheduling and Workforce Planning

Dennis Bowers, Alan Sikon, Joseph Panek, Michael Zernic


30 Wait, What? How Competed Missions Might Be Experiencing More Cost Growth than Directed Missions

Rachel Sholder


31 Math is EZIE (aka Math is Hard 2.0): How Contracts Help Control Cost

Rachel Sholder


32 Aerospace Viewer of NASA Project Staffing Data (aView): A Practical Tool for Analyzing Staffing Levels & Cost Across Missions

Sarah Lang, Justin McNeill Jr, Tommy Tran, Alexander Zarate Garcia, C Jason Zhang


34 Shaping Workforce with Business Intelligence

Jeff Fajardo


36 Thresher and TIDBIT: Tools on Automating Schedule Risk Assessments

Jessica Clarke, Patrick Schneider, Kimberly Smith


37 Breaking Down Data Silos

Kailey Melton


38 Successful EVM Implementation Depends on Surveillance

Nick Frazier, Briannah Smith


39 The Smart Projects and Reviews with Transformative Analytics (SPARTA) Project

James Price, Sharon Straka, Matthew Dosberg, Amanda Cutright, Dan Friedrich, Tara Dulaney


40 Mission Operations Cost Estimation Tool (MOCET)

Marc Hayhurst, Brian Wood, Cindy Daniels, Lissa Jordin, Washito Sasamoto, Waldo Rodriguez


41 The Mystery of the Metrics: Contractor Schedule Management

Erin Wood


42 Agile Methodology Applied to Systems Engineering in the Domain of Cost Analysis of a 6U CUBESAT

Ana Carolina Di Iorio Jeronymo, Lidia Hissae Shibuya Sato, Luís Eduardo Vergueiro Loures da Costa, Jonas Bianchini Fulindi, Victoria de Souza Rodrigues


45 Through the Looking Glass- Why EVM Is An Essential Risk Mitigation Measure for Decision Makers and Program Managers at NASA

Symantha Loflin


47 A Significant Other: Hypothesis Testing on Qualitative Predictor Coefficients in CER Regression

Cassandra Chang


48 Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Bayesian Dirichlet Cost Rules of Thumb

Melissa Hooke


49 ASCoT 3: Nonlinear Principal Components Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification in Early Concept Spacecraft Flight Software C

Melissa Hooke


50 Analogy Cost Estimation for CubeSats using COMPACT

Melissa Hooke


52 Joint Confidence Level Analysis for Projects with Multiple Objectives

Michael Trumper, Lev Virine


53 Quantified Benefits of Earned Value…and Their Benefits

Matt Jones


54 Programmatic Cost Tool

Joe Mrozinski


56 Yes, NASA, a project can be cancelled

Justin Hornback


57 EVM Analysis Tool for Complex Projects with Varied Data Sources

Donald P. Rice, Jr.


58 Examining the Effects of Implementing Data-Driven Uncertainty in Cost Estimating Models

Vicky Nilsen


59 Bayesian Quantitative Risk Analysis

Christian Smart, Murray Cantor


60 Distribution Free Uncertainty for CERs 

William King, Shaun Irvin


61 ONCE Database

James Johnson, Eric Plumer, Julie McAfee, and Mike Blandford


62 Diving Deep in the Domains, Running with AzTech

Crystal Bonds


64 Risk Management

Damaris Gonzalez


65 Using Excel to Facilitate JSC Analyses

Barney Roberts