Mission Operations Cost Estimation Tool (MOCET) 2020/2021 Updates

The Mission Operations Cost Estimation Tool (MOCET) team will present a summary of updates made to MOCET in 2020 as well as planned updates for 2021. These updates include additional mission data added to the existing Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) and enhancements like the addition of a reserves estimations capability, modeling for International Space Station (ISS) hosted instruments, Level 2 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) modeling, and modeling for extended missions. An overview of the state of the user community will be presented including statistics from the One NASA Cost Engineering (ONCE) model portal and software.nasa.gov. MOCET is a model developed by The Aerospace Corporation in partnership with NASA's Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA), which provides the capability to generate cost estimates for the operational, or Phase E, portion of NASA science missions. MOCET is comprised of CERs that have been derived from historical data for Planetary, Earth Science, and Explorer missions. The resulting CERs and accompanying documentation have been implemented as a standalone Excel based tool which is now available via the One NASA Cost Engineering (ONCE) model portal and software.nasa.gov.