STATUS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Grassroots cost estimates are rolling in and we are in the process of 
integrating the information so we can start one-on-one meetings with each 
SDO lead beginning next year.  The Project touched base with the GSFC 
Resources Analysis Office & the Langley Independent Review Office in order 
to bring them up-to-speed on SDO & provide them with background SDO 
information.  We agreed to provide both organizations with more information 
by the end of January which they felt gave them plenty of time to support 
the Initial Confirmation Review process.  We made considerable progress on 
the SDO Project Plan & today we will be providing comments to NASA HQ 
associated with the Living with a Star Program Plan.

The entire SDO team continues to review and provide inputs to our Draft 
Mission Requirements Document (level 2 req.s) that we distributed at our 
Mission Definition Retreat (MDR).  In addition, we generated & distributed 
to the Instrument teams & subsystems a time phased listing of the 
effort/products needed in order to be ready for our Internal System 
Requirements Review (Feb. 11 & 12) and the System Concept Review (3/31).

We completed the contract task for bringing on Steve Merrihew from the 
Lockheed Martin Technical Group to work as our SDO Instrument 
Accommodations Engineer.
Steve has a tremendous amount of experience in the Instrument accommodation 
area & we are truly looking forward to his arrival in the beginning of 
January.  We held an important and very successful management coordination 
meeting with NRL to discuss and understand NRL's management structure, 
staffing, and cooperation plans for the SDO SHARPP Investigation, including 
a discussion of cooperation between staffs to implement and conduct 
technical and programmatic dialogues with SHARPP's European partners.  I 
thank the SHARPP Project Manager, Cindy Edgerton, for pulling together her 
core team without impacting other NRL SEC missions.  We received an initial 
overview of the efforts that the HMI and SHARPP teams are developing to 
recover from the retraction of the UK's planned contribution of CCDs and 
electronics to the HMI and SHARPP instruments. The HMI and SHARPP teams are 
collaborating on potential options and are keeping the Project abreast of 
developments. The final plan will be published mid-Feb 03 and must be 
initiated no later than early April to preserve the instrument delivery 
schedules.  As with the other Instruments, we are working with the EVE 
Instrument team to understand their comments associated with our Draft 
Mission Assurance Requirements document.

The Ground System team has started to strategize the acquisition approach 
for the Ka-Band antenna system, data distribution, networks, & mission 
operations.  The phasing of these developments is an important part of 
achieving a cost effective data distribution system.  In addition, the 
Ground team continues to make good progress in working data distribution 
concepts with the Instrument teams.

In addition to releasing the draft SDO Mission Assurance Requirements 
document for review, the Mission Assurance team completed an update to the 
draft Risk Management Plan & made good progress on the Materials Process 
Plan & the Software Safety Plan.  All of these we be ready for project 
review early January.

Thanks & Have a Happy & Safe Holiday Season,
Ken

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal 
with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
John Foster Dulles
Former Secretary of State

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