1. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 14 Peer Review   25-29 June 2012, Hilton, Logan Airport  No major changes in Cycle 14  13 topical panels, 1 BPP (LPs, XVPs)  XVP Panel:  Pundits: met Wed, voted and wrote reports  Program as last year:  Tues, Wed: topical panels (+XVP)  Thurs, Frid: BPP (+ initial organizational session Wed evening)  Reviewer Stats: 110 reviewers, including 6 pundits, 13 chairs  2 remote: Webex + telcon

2. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 14: Final Proposal Statistics  672 proposals submitted: GO 452 LP 78 XVP 17 Archive 72 Theory 53  185 approved  Oversubscription (time): 5.2  Time allocation: 23.3 Ms

3. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 14 Proposal Statistics (cont) Time allocation: Total Time: 23.3 Ms LP: 5.7 Ms (4.2Ms) XVP: 6.2 Ms (7.4Ms)

4. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Archive/Theory Results Archive:  Budget: $1050K  Allocated $1095K (17)  Over-subscription: 4.2 Theory: Budget: $600K Allocated: $654K (8) Over-subscription: 5.8

5. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office X-ray Visionary Projects (XVP)  17 proposals submitted, time range: 1-6 Ms  Total request: 41.7 Ms (5.6* over-subscribed)  4 allocated, for 1-3 Ms, range of science topics: COSMOS sky survey expansion 1.7 sq.deg. To 160 ks: 2.8 Ms Planck z<0.35 cluster survey, to complete 165: 1 Ms SMC: deep study of low Z populations: 1.1 Ms PWNe: deep observations of 3: 1.3 Ms Process:  XVP panel (6 pundits) discussed all proposals and brought recommendations to BPP  Topical panels discussed XVPs and LPs, as usual  Final decisions made by BPP after discussion of highest- ranked proposals  BPP moved ~1.2Ms to LPs (+0.2Ms from TPs)  Final over-subscription for both = 6.6

6. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Multi-cycle Proposals  11 submitted for total 3.6, 2.3, 0.5 Ms in Cycles 14,15,16 (resp.)  5 approved for total 0.9, 0.6, 0.1 Ms (inc. 1 TOO)  1 of those approved included joint time w/HST

7. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cost Proposals in Cycle 14 Deadline: 14 Sept 2012 176 proposals received and processed Confirmed: 5 not submitting (foreign PIs) Currently 19 with incomplete documentation No early observations this cycle, so all can be processed together

8. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office GO Budget GO budget: $10.5M Includes: Observing, Archive ($1.05M), Theory ($0.6M) Cycle 14: overall decreasing budget projected ~$0.7M cut for first time Cycle 12-16: 15-25% increase in awarded time (orbit evolution) Cycle 13 awards: median $42K, average $54K, decrease ~10% SR2012: CXC requested GO budget augmentation to compensate decrease in budget and $/time awarded 50% of proposed augmentation was approved theory, archive funding at same level increase in GO total budget Cycle 14 awards: median $46.4K, average $59K

9. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office NASA/China Restrictions and Chandra  NASA GIC 12-01, 9 Feb 2012: restricting bi-lateral collaboration with China or Chinese-government owned entity  RJB+MSFC personnel met with NASA HQ personnel to discuss issue  China-US/China-only proposals considered bi-lateral and cannot be supported  No bi-lateral China-US proposals approved in Cycle 14  All Cost PIs required to sign a form: “Assurance of Compliance” with this regulation  This restriction will be explicitly included in the Cycle 15 CfP

10. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 15: Planned Schedule CfP, POG etc. release: 13 Dec 2012 Proposal Deadline: 14 Mar 2013 Peer Review: 17-21 June 2013 Results: 12 July 2013 E-letters: by 16 August 2013 Cost Deadline: 17 Sept 2013

11. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 15: X-ray Visionary Projects  Cycle 14: 4 (of 17) proposals accepted Over-subscription 6.6 (time)  Surveyed panel chairs: Generally supported balance of time (~ on category) Most did not feel XVPs were >> LPs, just larger Supported continuation of XVP-level language  Cycle 15: plan to include a third XVP call  Time available is significantly lower, 20 Ms (TBR): GO 11 Ms LP 4 Ms XVP 5 Ms  Propose to run peer review similarly

12. CUC 10-11 Oct 2012 Chandra Director’s Office Cycle 15: Joint Programs  HST, Spitzer (reinstated), XMM-Newton, NOAO, NRAO, Suzaku Possible new joint programs:  NRAO/ALMA: discussions open with new director (Beasley) for ALMA Cycle 2  NuSTAR: recently launched, contacted Harrison, Stern to open discussion