SDO Weekly Report for March 19, 2004


The team has begun looking ahead after SDOs extremely successful
PDR/NAR.  One area that has been identified as a potential issue is
SDOs procurements.  The sheer volume of procurements, given that fact
that the SDO spacecraft is an in-house build, has the potential to
overwhelm the system.  Management has been meeting with Procurement and
Legal to apprise them of the upcoming activities, and to secure the
resources necessary to accomplish all of the procurements.  Innovative
approaches are also being pursued, such as procuring some components
through the RSDO catalog.

Systems Assurance has been participating significantly in SDOs
procurement efforts by critically reviewing the QA requirements of the
in-process procurements, streamlining and removing redundant
requirements, and removing prescriptive language while leaving core
requirements intact.  A similar approach will be pursued for other
upcoming procurement efforts such as the Electrical Contact Ring
Assembly (ECRA), Antenna Gimbal Actuator and Star Trackers.

The SDO Systems team has begun thinking about the path to CDR. To that
end, several project engineers met this week to discuss short term
tasks and long term priorities to follow over the next several
months.   Among the high priorities are completing configuration of the
subsystem-level requirements and ICD's, fabrication and testing of
breadboards and award of all procured components.    In addition, the
Systems Team is working the Launch Vehicle IRD in preparation for the
LV procurement.

The EVE ICD rev. 4 is under review by the EVE and SDO teams.  We are
targeting mid- April for baselining the document. The EVE systems
engineering group is finishing the EVE System Requirements Document.
Results of a NASA's Supplier Assessment Initiative audit in February
were mixed for LASP; impacts to the EVE program are being assessed.
The EVE Electrical engineering group will have a peer review of the
compact CPI Backplane 3/19.  Final negotiated costs were submitted 3/12
for the Phase B/C/D/E contract with an award date planned for the first
of April.

The HMI document schedule continued this week with the release of
optics and mechanism drawings, and specifications for various boards.
The development bridgeboard and motherboard PWB and PWA are out for
fabrication. The HMI EGSE is assembled and functional. Software
development is progressing with code loaded on the RAD6000 processor
now that it is up and running with the 1553 card. The shutter life test
is on track to begin at the end of March 2004. e2v is scheduled to send
a CCD device next week to RAL for the breadboard camera. Welcome to
Rachel Richards. Rachel is joining the HMI Team and will be working as
a thermal engineer.

The ground system has formally closed out, with concurrence from Code
300, all 36 RFAs from the Ground System SRR. All four ground system
contracts; MOMS, NENS, and IDIQs for CSC and Genesis Engineering have
been submitted in final form.  MOMS and NENS are in effect with formal
start dates of 8Mar04 and 22Mar04 respectively.  Start dates for both
IDIQs are scheduled for 1Apr04. All four contracts have a period of
performance of 12 months.  Work continues in preparation for the late
April Ground System PDR with a rough draft PDR package already being
reviewed.  Finally, the ground system is finalizing the ground system
document tree for Project review.

Work continues on populating the DOORS requirements database.  The EPS
Requirements document has been input to the database, and portions of
the Ka-Band and S-Band Specs.