The Cost Engineering profession in the space domain is constantly evolving, needing to keep up with new tools and methods as well as the rapidly evolving space market, space systems and services that are the subject of our cost estimates.

The conference is to facilitate the exchange of best practices, methods, trends and lessons learned within the cost engineering community, giving opportunity to participants to demonstrate and share their work through papers and presentations on:

• Cost modelling
• Cost analysis
• Affordability analysis
• Design-to-Cost
• Earned Value Management
• Technical and Cost Data Acquisition and Storing
• Cost evolution trends
• Impact of and lessons learned from New Space approaches
• Cost reduction vs risk taking
• Cost engineering in feasibility studies, concept studies and running projects
• The evolution of the cost engineer profile
• … and related subjects.

The conference will furthermore host the first meeting of the new COMET group on cost engineering. The term COMET refers to ‘Communities of Experts’, which are open innovation networks managed by CNES and in which ESA is a playing a significant role. More details can be found at: www.comet-cnes.fr

The cost engineering group will initially be part of the System COMET. The meeting of that group will take place on the second day of the conference and will last for half a day.