CCDev

[Zond]

Anybody know why it is taking so long to announce the winners of the CCDev competition? The schedule says the winners would be announced in December, and there's only one day left in December.

Am i correct in believing that the money has to be spent before September 2010? If yes it seems unlikely (prototype) hardware building or testing will take place.

[HMXHMX]

Anybody know why it is taking so long to announce the winners of the CCDev competition? The schedule says the winners would be announced in December, and there's only one day left in December.

Am i correct in believing that the money has to be spent before September 2010? If yes it seems unlikely (prototype) hardware building or testing will take place.

I have heard the decision is made and the press release is ready, but that the announcement is held up by higher level politics.  The delay means that tasks will likely have to be rescoped, since all the money must be spent before Oct 1, 2010, and NASA has lost two months, at least, from the original schedule.

[Namechange User]

CCDev is not a significant amount of money.  The whole budget is 50 million dollars.  It will not be difficult to spend that amount on the development process (which involves much more than just hardware being physically built) in a short amount of time.

[Zond]

Anybody know why it is taking so long to announce the winners of the CCDev competition? The schedule says the winners would be announced in December, and there's only one day left in December.

Am i correct in believing that the money has to be spent before September 2010? If yes it seems unlikely (prototype) hardware building or testing will take place.

I have heard the decision is made and the press release is ready, but that the announcement is held up by higher level politics.  The delay means that tasks will likely have to be rescoped, since all the money must be spent before Oct 1, 2010, and NASA has lost two months, at least, from the original schedule.

What is the political problem? The money is spend in the wrong districts, it is seen as a threat to Orion, conflicts with the president's decision about the future of constellation?

[jongoff]

CCDev is not a significant amount of money.  The whole budget is 50 million dollars.  It will not be difficult to spend that amount on the development process (which involves much more than just hardware being physically built) in a short amount of time.

Yeah.  $50M is "only" 250 man-years at the typical $200k/man-year burdened rate.  If it gets kicked off early next month, that comes out to the equivalence of 333 people working on CCDev (even less if any hardware is done).  Between 2-3 Boeing or SpaceX sized companies, that could go reasonably quickly.

That said, from my personal perspective that's still a ton of money.  More than Masten, Armadillo, and XCOR have spent to date combined.

~Jon

[Rabidpanda]

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What?

[A_M_Swallow]

I recently done my master in Business Administration and now days I want to do some online Microsoft certifications like MCSA MCSE Oracle java etc and I Found this online notes is a best helping source to get online accurate information which is more helpful for my preparation.

Wrong website.

The CCDev on this website is NASA's Commercial Crew Development.  A US government program to design and test manned spacecraft.