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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. 

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Thank You for Making NCSS 2026 a Success!

2026 NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium at Glenn Research Center
NASA/GRC/Jef Janis

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2026 NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium a success!

We especially want to thank the NCSS Symposium Planning Team for all of the time, effort, and coordination that went into planning and delivering this year’s event. We are also grateful to our friends and colleagues at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) for helping make the symposium possible, including the GRC facilities team for their support throughout the event.

Our sincere thanks go to Matt Murray for keeping everything running smoothly and coming to the rescue when technical challenges arose.

We’d also like to thank the Glenn Café team and cafeteria staff for accommodating our larger-than-usual crowd and helping make lunch arrangements work smoothly throughout the symposium. We appreciate both teams for providing and delivering the lunches that were ordered in advance, as well as taking care of those who visited the cafeteria during the event.

A heartfelt thank-you goes to Justin Hornback for serving as emcee for the Awards Reception. Following in the tradition established by Eric Plumer, Justin brought warmth and enthusiasm to the evening as we celebrated the accomplishments of our colleagues across NASA. His remarks gave us an opportunity to step back from our day-to-day work and reflect on how our individual contributions support NASA’s greater mission. We appreciate Justin for helping make the Awards Reception a fitting celebration of the people and work at the heart of NCSS.

We were especially pleased to welcome so many people attending NCSS for the first time this year. We hope you enjoyed the symposium, made new connections, and found opportunities to learn from your colleagues across NASA. If this was your first NCSS, we hope it won’t be your last! We look forward to seeing you again next year—and perhaps seeing some of you on the agenda as presenters.

Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and support to NCSS 2026. We look forward to seeing you at NCSS 2027!

2027 NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium

Planning for the 2027 NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium will soon be underway. Information will be posted here as it becomes available.

NCSS Key Dates

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NCSS Participation

ABSTRACTS & PRESENTATIONS

  • Call for Abstracts – Coming Soon

AWARDS

  • Call for Awards – Coming Soon
    • The 2027 call for award nominations is not yet available, but now is a great time to start thinking about colleagues and accomplishments that may deserve recognition at next year’s symposium.

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NCSS Registration & Agenda

REGISTRATION

  • 2027 Eventbrite Registration Link – Coming Soon
    • 2027 NASA Conference Tracking System (NCTS) – Coming Soon

    AGENDA

    • 2027 NCSS Agenda – Coming Soon

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    NCSS Logistics

    VENUE INFORMATION

    • 2027 Venue Information – Coming Soon

      AWARDS RECEPTION

      • 2027 Awards Reception Information – Coming Soon

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      NCSS Points of Contact

      • Symposium Sponsor: Dr. Trinity Bharath, Director of Budget
      • 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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