Project Status
Project Status Project Status
Approach• Strong central project office (SPO) withmanagement and system design authority• Industry culture in managing and costing theproject essential• Close engagement of industry essentialthroughout PreCon phase• SPO will contract work on major sub-systems to asmall number of Work Package Contractors‣ WPCs are consortia of POs and industrial partners• Major improvement over current “best efforts”basis
Work Packages1. Management2. System3. Science4. Maintenance and support /Operations Plan5. Dishes6. Aperture arrays7. Signal transport & networks8. Signal processing9. Computing & software10. Power11. Site preparation
- Page 1 and 2: Welcome and overview of theproject
- Page 3 and 4: Project Phases2009 2010 2011 2012 2
- Page 5 and 6: Goals of the Pre-Construction Phase
- Page 7: Expected management structure in 20
- Page 11 and 12: Assignment of Work Packages (2)2.
- Page 13 and 14: Site selection‣Physical requireme
- Page 15 and 16: Tropospheric phase monitoring equip
- Page 17: Top level schedule for the SKATechn
Approach• Strong central project office (SPO) withmanagement and system design authority• Industry culture in managing and costing theproject essential• Close engagement of industry essentialthroughout PreCon phase• SPO will contract work on major sub-systems to asmall number of Work Package Contractors‣ WPCs are consortia of POs and industrial partners• Major improvement over current “best efforts”basis