3.0. NASA Program/Project Life Cycle
3.1 Program Formulation
3.2 Program Implementation
3.3 Project Pre-Phase A: Concept Studies
3.4 Project Phase A: Concept and Technology Development
3.5 Project Phase B: Preliminary Design and Technology Completion
3.6 Project Phase C: Final Design and Fabrication
3.7 Project Phase D: System Assembly, Integration and Test, Launch
3.8 Project Phase E: Operations and Sustainment
3.9 Project Phase F: Closeout
3.10 Funding: The Budget Cycle
3.11 Tailoring and Customization of NPR 7123.1 Requirements
For a description of the NASA Budget Cycle, refer to the NASA Expanded Guidance for Systems Engineering document found at https://nen.nasa.gov/web/se/doc-repository. See also Section 5.8 of NASA/SP-2014-3705, NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Handbook.