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NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium

NCSS Overview

Each year, the NASA HQ OCFO Strategic Insights and Budget Office sponsors the NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium (NCSS), uniting the programmatic PP&C community across all Centers and HQ. This event allows participants from NASA, its contractors, other U.S. government agencies, and partners like universities and national laboratories to share their work and exchange ideas, best practices, methodologies, and lessons learned. The Symposium highlights the contributions of analysts and estimators, fostering professional growth and enhancing the overall quality of analysis at NASA. Attendees engage through professional paper submissions, briefings, presentations, live demonstrations, and training sessions. We look forward to seeing the tradition of the Agency’s finest analysts and estimators at NASA continue to make NASA better. 

Symposium Email: hq-ncss@mail.nasa.gov

NCSS Key Dates

Symposium Event

  • Save the Date – August 25 – 27, 2026
  • Symposium Registration – Coming soon!
    • Required for all attendees

Call for Abstracts & Presentations

  • Call for Abstracts – Submission Deadline June 12, 2026
  • Notification of Acceptance – June 22, 2026
  • Presentations Due – August 17, 2026

Call for Awards

  • Call for Awards – Nomination Deadline July 10, 2026
  • Submit nominations via the links below:
    • 2026 Cost and Schedule Leadership Award: MS Word
    • 2026 Cost and Schedule Analyst of the Year: MS Word
    • 2026 Cost and Schedule Rising Star Award: MS Word
    • 2026 Cost and Schedule Team Award: MS Word
    • 2026 Cost and Schedule Support Contractor of the Year: MS Word
    • 2026 Cost and Schedule Top Community Support Award: MS Word
    • 2026 William S. Rutledge Lifetime Achievement Award: MS Word

NCSS Agenda/Logistics

Symposium Agenda

  • Agenda – Available in July 2026

Symposium Venue Information

  • Glenn Research Center, MIC Auditorium

Awards Banquet Venue Information

  • Awards Banquet – August 26, 2026
  • Venue – TBD

NCSS Points of Contact

  • Symposium Sponsor: Dr. Trinity Bharath, Deputy CFO for Strategic Insights and Budget (Acting)
  • Symposium Coordinator: James Johnson
  • Abstracts & Papers Committee Chair: Charles Hunt
  • Awards Committee Chair: Justin Hornback
  • Communications POC: Michele King

For all NCSS Points of Contact, please use hq-ncss@mail.nasa.gov.

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NCSS Presentations

Find NCSS presentations from past years.

The NCSS Presentations page provides links to all NCSS presentations since 2020.

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A close-up of the head of the rover’s remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument. (Its lens is in the large circular opening.) In the gray boxes beneath mast head are the two Mastcam-Z imagers. On the exterior sides of those imagers are the rover’s two navigation cameras.
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