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Technology Estimating : A Process to Determine the Cost and Schedule of Space Technology Research and Development

Author
Reeves, John D.
Published
December 2013.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Greenberg, Marc, Cole, Stuart K., Olds, John R., Wallace, Jon, Comstock, Doug, DePasquale, Dominic, Williams-Byrd, Julie A., and Schaffer, Mark
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Summary
NASA is investing in new technologies that include 14 primary technology roadmap areas, and aeronautics. Understanding the cost for research and development of these technologies and the time it takes to increase the maturity of the technology is important to the support of the ongoing and future NASA missions. Overall, technology estimating may help provide guidance to technology investment strategies to help improve evaluation of technology affordability, and aid in decision support. The research provides a summary of the framework development of a Technology Estimating process where four technology roadmap areas were selected to be studied. The framework includes definition of terms, discussion for narrowing the focus from 14 NASA Technology Roadmap areas to four, and further refinement to include technologies, TRL range of 2 to 6. Included in this paper is a discussion to address the evaluation of 20 unique technology parameters that were initially identified, evaluated and then subsequently reduced for use in characterizing these technologies. A discussion of data acquisition effort and criteria established for data quality are provided. The findings obtained during the research included gaps identified, and a description of a spreadsheet-based estimating tool initiated as a part of the Technology Estimating process.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20140005476.
L-20337.
NF1676L-17580.
NASA/TP-2013-218145.
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