PALM-3000

Management Update

A. Bouchez, J. Roberts

Team Meeting #15

10/29/09

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Why are we building this again?

• Take a look at the recent NSF ATI proposalhttp://www.oir.caltech.edu/twiki_oir/bin/view/Palomar/Palm3000/NsfAti10

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Since the last team meeting

We are now 2/3 of way through the project (in terms of budget…further in terms of schedule!)

Changes since last meeting• First light move back to February 2011, with the system

tear-down and rebuild beginning in July 2010• All component designs are complete. All PDRs have

been held.• External interim cost review was held in February

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Management Status

• The biggest concerns are the completion funding and staying on schedule

• Funding– FY10 funding is secure at both JPL and Caltech– JPL MOU report strongly recommended funding the MOU for

another 5 years and specifically funding AO in FY10 and FY11• JPL has funded AO for FY10

– NSF ATI proposal to be submitted by Monday. Would cover 100% of COO FY11-12 funding, and 50% of JPL FY11.

• Schedule– Due to funding concerns, we must push to meet the schedule

• Control of requirements creep will be important• Identify especially challenging requirements and discuss with

management before spending months working on them

PALM-3000External Review

• External Interim Project Review – February 2009– Review of the management plan, scientific

competitiveness and cost to completion– From review committee report:

• “The committee was impressed with the management and commitment of the PALM-3000 team.”

• “The past experience of the team in deploying the existing Palomar AO system gives us confidence that they can achieve the ambitious goals of the system.”

– Only significant technical concern was the 3000-actuator deformable mirror (DM) delivery, which we have addressed

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FY10 effort distribution

JPL FY10 LaborPalmer Guiwits Burruss Troy Roberts Truong Angione Shelton

Set FTE's 0.46 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.83 0.75 0.50 0.03Oct 1 0.85 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.65 1.00 0.50 0.1Nov 2 0.85 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 1.00 0.50 0.1Dec 3 0.85 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 1.00 0.50 0.1Jan 4 0.50 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 1.00 0.50 0.1Feb 5 0.50 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 1.00 0.50 0Mar 6 0.50 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 1.00 0.50 0Apr 7 0.25 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 0.50 0.50 0May 8 0.25 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 0.50 0.50 0Jun 9 0.25 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 0.50 0.50 0Jul 10 0.25 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 0.50 0.50 0Aug 11 0.25 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 0.50 0.50 0Sep 12 0.25 1.00 0.65 0.05 0.85 0.50 0.50 0

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FY10 effort distribution

COO Personnel• Baranec - 5%• Bouchez - 80%• Bui - 25%• Croner - 50%• Dekany - 15%• Hale - 50%• Zolkower - 15%• Palomar - 25% FTE

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FY10 Schedule Issues

Critical Path(s)• High-order deformable mirror procurement and testing• Software development

– High Order Wavefront Processor

• Electronics assembly and testing– Especially DM & motor cabling.

Strategies• Will need to track progress on these particular tasks closely.• Management needs to clearly spell out when subsystems must be

ready for integration into the testbed & final system.• Team must inform us when unexpected problems arise.

PALM-3000Schedule Overview

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Milestones

• Close servo-loops on I&T testbed: March 2010• Pre-ship review: June 2010.• Decommission PALMAO: July 2010.• First light: February 2011.