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Agenda

• News

• Program Administration
  • DA search status Amy Kimball 
    • ~30 applications with cover letters received, Amy attending careers fairs at NMTech and NMSt.
  • Possibility of cross-training DAs between sites.
    • OK for now, ML will check in with Ed when he starts in Cville.
• Project Management
• RADIAL update
• Science Ready Data Products
  • SRDP to operations transition plan.
    • acceptance criteria for each capability negotiated with ops teams?
      • ML will write 1-2 page doc with where we are relative to the wave planning & what might be needed to move from project to Ops.
  •  RHEL-8 conversions in Socorro:
    • we may need to fully switch to workspaces sooner than expected. Number of simultaneous jobs may be an issue, need to discuss with DAs and SSA to perhaps change the limit.
    • SSA will start looking into upgrading NGAS to allow more threads but timescale would  be ~ months.
• VLASS
  •  Observing going well apart from a few failed EBs due to weather. QL calibration and imaging under way.
  • Polarization cube demo release being prepared.
  • AAS ABQ 4th-8th June, special session and workshop deadline 31st Jan, looks like SSG is leaning towards a splinter session, which has a later deadline (TBD).
    • Splinter for ABQ OK. Plan to have a special session in New Orleans once we have more SE products out, which can form the basis of the special issue.
• AOB