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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

Call for Abstracts & Presentations

  • Call for Abstracts – Submission Deadline – Now February 19, 2025!
  • Notification of Acceptance – February 24, 2025
  • Presentations Due – April 21, 2025

Call for Awards

NCSS Agenda/Logistics

Symposium Agenda

  • Agenda – Available in March 2025

Symposium Venue Information

Awards Banquet Venue Information

  • Awards Banquet – April 30, 2025
  • There will be an Awards banquet on the evening of Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center located at 1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35805. Attending the banquet is optional and requires a fee. Payment for the banquet must be made in advance. The cost to attend the banquet is $58.95 (which includes service and Eventbrite fees).
  • To attend and purchase your banquet ticket, select the add-on option “Awards Banquet” when you register. If you are bringing a guest to the banquet, you may select and purchase the number of banquet tickets you need when you register.
  • Please note that outside food or beverages are prohibited at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
  • The buffet-style dinner includes a choice of Lemon Chicken Breast or Roasted Grecian-style Mahi Mahi; Mediterranean Roasted Potato; Roasted Greek Vegetables; Cous Cous Salad; Mini Naan Breads; and Baklava.

NCSS Points of Contact

  • James Johnson, Conference Coordinator
  • Charles Hunt, Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Guest Speakers
  • Kristen Kehrer, Call for Awards and Awards Committee Chair
  • Jon Fleming, Venues and Facilities Coordinator
  • Michele King, Email Announcements and Distribution List
  • Victoria Nilsen, Procurement and Support Contractor Task Monitor
  • Robin Smith, “Keeper of the Wisdom”

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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