STATUS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
We completed several POP 03-1 budget exercises & participated in reviews 
with the GSFC LWS program & HQ SEC.  I want to thank Wanda Harrell, Tom 
Miller, & Ellen Berkeley for their hard work & long hours over the past 
couple of weeks in pulling together all the Budget information & working 
actions in a lightning manner.  Accomplishing this activity while we were 
preparing for & conducting our SRR/SCR was truly outstanding.

For the Instruments, we conducted Instrument to spacecraft Interface 
requirements meetings with the Mechanical and C&DH subsystem leads to 
review, identify, and document detailed interface requirements.  In 
addition, we prioritized implementation information needed for the draft 
Instrument to Spacecraft ICDs.  Other meetings are being setup with the 
Thermal, Power, Electrical Systems and Operations leads to consolidate 
those interface requirements.  In order to assure timely attention to the 
urgent interface issues, the Instruments teams have been polled for their 
prioritized interface definition items.  Two CCD Camera working group 
meetings were held by SHARPP and HMI to solidify the common CCD Camera 
procurement plans and schedules.  NRL has received proposals from E2V, the 
CCD vendor, and from Rutherford Labs (RAL) for the associated camera 
readout electronics.  For each vendor, there will be a single development 
phase contract let by NRL for the initial development effort followed by 
individual contracts by HMI and SHARPP for the flight products.  E2V and 
RAL will be contracted separately and will provide early development 
hardware within the SDO PDR time frame to address the Technology Readiness 
Level 6 requirement at PDR.  The EVE instrument team completed two 
scheduled Conceptual Peer Reviews for the EVE MEGS A and B 
subsystems.  Coordination discussions were held between EVE and the GSFC 
Subsys. Data Node design group to solidify delivery plans.  EVE has opted 
to use the GSFC developed SDN to take advantage of the SDN's built-in 
processor capabilities.  As part of our reliability analyses, the project 
is evaluating HMI's proposed areas for reliability improvement (redundant 
processors & improved fault redundancy in the filter mechanisms).  SHARPP 
continues to work closely with the Magritte and SPECTRE teams in Europe to 
further integrate the SHARPP development planning/schedules, exchange 
systems and internal interface details, and converge on the MAGRITTE and 
SPECTRE spacecraft accommodation details.  A visit is scheduled for early 
May by the SHARPP team to the European facilities including a visit to the 
RAL facilities in England.

The ground system resumed development activities with the two main 
activities centering around the SDO RF spectrum licensing process and the 
Mission Operations Center (MOC).  The first leg of spectrum licensing will 
start at the World Radio Conference (WRC) in June which is a yearly meeting 
of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an offshoot of the 
United Nations.  We have been told by the GSFC Frequency Manager that there 
should be no problems with SDO approval since we see no issues and the ITU 
needs to provide a technical objection to stop the issuance of the 
license.  The team also finalized the MOC layout (second floor building 14) 
and submitted the plan to the GSFC space utilization committee.  This plan 
includes the primary MOR (mission operations room), MAR (mission analysis 
room), a system engineering support room, science support room for launch 
and commissioning activities, and offices for the Flight Ops. 
team.  Tentative approval has already been given on our MOC layout.

Thanks,
Ken

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