Faster, Better, But Maybe Not Cheaper: Class D and the Project Management, Systems Engineering and Mission Assurance Costs Conundrum

Faster, Better, But Maybe Not Cheaper: Class D and the Project Management, Systems Engineering and Mission Assurance Costs Conundrum

Utah State University, Logan, UT

• NASA Class D mission are becoming increasingly prevalent, and typically are lower cost missions.

• In prior research, we found that Class D PM/SE/MA costs do not fall into the same cost estimating relationship range to hardware cost, compared to other mission classes