2026 NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium Presentations
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2026 NCSS Presentations 2026 NCSS Agenda 1. Don’t Stop Believing (in Your EVM Data): The Power of EVMS Daniel Goldsmith 2. The Psychology of Variance: How Human Behavior Distorts EVM Data Briannah Smith, Joe Fischetti 3. Beyond the Baseline: Developing the Next Generation of PP&C Talent Melissa Lee, Kimberly Bennett, Kenneth McPherson 4. Grounding Future […] The post 2026 NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium Presentations appeared first on NASA Science .
1. Don’t Stop Believing (in Your EVM Data): The Power of EVMS
Daniel Goldsmith
2. The Psychology of Variance: How Human Behavior Distorts EVM Data
Briannah Smith, Joe Fischetti
3. Beyond the Baseline: Developing the Next Generation of PP&C Talent
Melissa Lee, Kimberly Bennett, Kenneth McPherson
4. Grounding Future Decision Support for NASA Cost & Schedule Management: A Practice-Informed Co-Design Discussion
Yunping Liang, Justin Knott
5. Programmatic Insights: Behaviors Behind Mission Success
Vince Elliott
6. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Developing Realistic Risk Estimates
Christian Smart
7. REDSTAR: NASA’s Historical Cost and Schedule Analysis Resource
Stanley McCaulley, Billy Carson, Melissa Roberts
8. Delivering AI to the PP&C Community: Proven Capabilities and Practical Tools from NASA
Eric Mansbach
9. Risk for the Rest of Us
Thomas Polen
10. In and Out of Context: Revisiting NASA and Industry Spacecraft Cost Comparisons
Rachel Sholder, Kathy Kha
11. Fool’s Gold: How Systemic Failures in ‘Estimated Budget’ Tarnish Earned Value
Hannah Lee, Aaron Everly, Alex Wekluk, Thomas Parkey, Dr. Charles Loelius
12. Classified Regression
Dr Robert Dockstader, Dr Jim Adams
13. COMPACT and ASCoT 2026: Recent Enhancements to the ONSET Cost Estimation Tool Suite
Michael DiNicola, Joseph Mrozinski
14. Managing Very Large Integrated Program Schedules
Lev Virine, Michael Trumper
15. Take Your Forensic Schedule Analysis a Step Further with Half Step
Denise Russell
16. NASA Science Mission Resource Growth Revisited
Eric Mahr, Taylor Mize, James Johnson, Stephen Shinn
18. Empowering Project Leaders: Enhancing EVM Data Integrity and Analysis Across NASA Programs
Crysta Bouldin
20. The MS Project Master Schedule
William G. Paradis
21. The Geometry of Confidence: New Mathematical Foundations for Joint Confidence Level (JCL) Analysis
Aamir Ahmad
22. Development of a Cost Model for LEO Constellations
Taylor S. Mize, Elliott B. Tibor, Jacob R. Sabol, Seth Faberman, Gustavo Hernandez, and Brian Bone
23. Data-Driven Schedule Assessment: An Integrated Approach for Space Systems Command Programs
Ben Kwok, Daniel Newkirk
24. Navigating the UFE Quagmire: Is Implementing Undermining Forecasts?
Michele King, Barbara Phillips
25. Schedule Architecture Universal Registry of NASA (SAURON) Update
Will Hopkins, Steve Wilson, Brandon Tafoya, Tony Byers, Andre Lacour, Cassandra Chang, Michael Vallely, Brett Ulekowski, Nathan Grant, Ananya Vuppala
27. Utilizing AI to Find and Categorize Risk (AI-Enabled Contractor Dashboard for SMD Portfolio)
Abby Franck, Roshni Patel
29. 1-minute Schedule Dashboards
Zachary Dolch
30. Using Multiple Schedule Risk Analysis Runs to Drive Informed Decisions
Zachary Dolch
31. The Cost of Time: Leveraging Schedule to Predict Cost and Quantify Schedule Risk
Brian Berry
32. AI, the Great and Powerful: Coupling Cautious Enthusiasm with Purpose in NNSA PA&E’s AI Strategy
Zachary Matheson, Maura Lapoff, Charles Loelius, Erika Rivera
33. Where It All Breaks Down: How Cost Growth Exists within Specific WBS Elements
Zachary Matheson, Vikram Basude
34. Implementation of Earned Schedule Analysis to Enhance Earned Value Management Insights
Chris Blake, Cassie Chang, Natalie Weckesser
35. Schedule Forensics at the Source: A Local-First, AI-Augmented Tool for Native .mpp Metric Generation, Cross-Snapshot Trend Analysis, and On-Premises AI Interpretation
David J. Politte
36. Increasing Efficiency and Velocity of Scheduling And Risk Assessment Through Automation
Michel Hemrich, Brett Fennell, Eric Zander
37. Early Warning Metrics for Programmatic Evaluation
Satvik Chennareddy, Seth Faberman, Roshni Patel, Jacob Sabol, Abby Franck, Kathryn O’Connor
39. NICM 11: Updating NASA Instrument Cost Estimating with a Bayesian Single-Model Framework
Joe Mrozinski
40. Aerospace Viewer of NASA Project Staffing Data (aView): A Practical Tool for Analyzing Staffing Levels and Cost Across Missions
Sarah Lang, Justin McNeill, Jr., Tommy Tran, Alexander Zarate Garcia, C. Jason Zhang, Michael Airola
41. Improving PCEC Cost Estimating Relationships Through Bayesian Regression: A Comparison with Currently Used Ordinary Least Squares Methods
Shawn Hayes and Nathan Snyder
44. JCL Analysis for Preliminary Design Phases of Future Lunar Missions and Programs
Hayden Magill
45. CADRe Online Entry Capability in the ONCE Database
James Johnson, Julie McAfee, Mike Blandford, Tara Claborn
46. PCEC Updates for Crew and Space Transportation Systems (CASTS) and Robotic Missions
Nathan Snyder, Shawn Hayes, Mark Jacobs, Richard Webb
47. Turning Schedule Metrics into Management Insight: Practical Early-Warning and Forecasting Techniques and How to Overcome the Chain-of-Command Communication Barrier for NASA Projects
Ryan Witters, Javier Arniella, Natasha Dahl
48. Leveraging Earned Value and Schedule Data for Forensic Insight and Future Project Success
Ryan Witters, Javier Arniella, Natasha Dahl
49. Utilizing a Schedule to Automate Reporting: Better Estimates, Sooner, With Less Effort Across NASA’s AETC Wind Tunnel Portfolio
Rachael Smith, Erik Lopez, Jonathan Martinez
51. Performance Drives Compliance, Not the Other Way Around – Introducing the Ubiquitous EV (UEV) Mindset
Luis Contreras
52. Introduction to SSI’s New SRA Tool, Including a Practical Guide
Jason Berg
53. The Sound Check: A Mock Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)
Lana Thompson, Michelle Storm
54. Managing the Unknowns: Practical Risk Management for Complex Programs
Lana Thompson, Michelle Storm
56. From Schedule Compliance to Schedule Reliability: Integrating Short-Interval Planning with the Integrated Master Schedule
Garrett Harley, Alison Roccia
57. Beyond the Critical Path: Practical Techniques for Managing Integrated Schedule & Cost Risk and Forecast Confidence in Complex Projects
Saj Yaqub, Alison Roccia
58. Historical Perspective of Alternative Acquisition Approaches for Launch Systems
Richard Webb
62. Disaggregation – An Approach to Estimating the Cost of New Ways of Doing Business
Richard Webb
66. Conditioning the Schedule for Quantitative Risk Analysis
David Hulett, Keith Hornbacher
67. From Risk Data to Decision Insight: RiskMAP in Action
Damaris Gonzalez
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