Session 8

Mr. Elliott has extensive experience and qualifications in mission management at NASA. He has served in numerous roles within the Agency, but most specifically, managing the business scope on NASA space flight missions as the DPM-R. Mr. Elliott’s most relevant experience has been overseeing the resources on the DAVINCI+, Lucy, and OSIRIS-REx missions.

DPM-R responsibilities include management of finance, workforce, acquisitions, property, space, configuration, cost, risks, and anything not named ‘engineering’ or ‘science’. The Lucy and OSIRIS-REx experiences are explicitly well-suited for DAVINCI+ in that many of the business partners are the same; LM, APL, KinetX and GSFC. Procedures, processes and relationships have already been forged making transition to DAVINCI+ seamless. Mr. Elliott’s experience is diverse among science missions in flight project business management with roles on planetary and astrophysics missions. Further diversity is among missions in formulation, implementation and operations.

Mr. Elliott began his career at NASA in 2003 where he helped bring NASA/GSFC into the fundamentally new realm of full cost accounting and budgeting as well as the new SAP financial system. Further experience includes numerous smaller technical efforts and teams improving business practices and tools such as BOE generation, Cost Reserve Management, Parts/Supplies management, Funds Control, Full Cost Builder and others.