1. NGAO Control Systems Group Status, Plans & Issues NGAO Team Meeting August 19, 2008 Erik Johansson Jimmy Johnson, Doug Morrison, Ed Wetherell

2. 2 Controls Team Erik Johansson (Lead) Jimmy Johnson (Technologist) Ed Wetherell (Electronics) Doug Morrison (Software)

3. 3 Status Held Controls Team kickoff meeting on 8/5. Set up Controls Team Twiki page: –Keck/NGAO Web > ControlsSystems Most of team not available until start of FY-09 –Currently updating schedule based on availability –Shuffling tasks to continue progress in remainder of FY-08 Working on interpreting the WBS entries and determining the required (optimum) deliverables for the major tasks: –Requirements: OCD, SRD, FRD –Overall Controls Architecture –Overall SW architecture –MCS, UI, AO controls, Laser controls architectures Initial discussions with Jimmy Johnson and Doug Morrison regarding SW framework options for NGAO controls.

4. 4 Plans Intro to AO presentation for controls team, 8/28 Controls Team meeting, 8/29, to discuss: –NGAO WBS –Project assignments –Goals and deliverables for the PD phase Work with Peter to update the schedule Little work on NGAO for next 2-3 weeks due to higher priority work on K1 LGS Continue in Sep with work on: –Operational Concept Documents –Updating Requirements –Change control document –SW and Component standards documents

5. 5 Issues Concerns regarding the cost cap and associated re-plans: –Impractical to design to every possible scenario –Need some kind of baseline from which to proceed –Need entire NGAO team on the same page