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[John Parsons <parsons AT nevis.columbia.edu>]

Hi all,

	I was looking back at the documentation from the time of FDR, such as 
the L2 Cost Book.   However, everything is rolled up according to FY, so 
I don't see a simple way with those docs to get the costs for Apr. 
1/2020 - Mar. 31/2021.
        Mike/Jon, will you be able to get that from the Cost Controls people?

                John

On 12/12/19 1:14 PM, Michael Tuts wrote:
> Hi NSF scope L2 and deputy,
>
> Despite knowing the LS3 would be delayed by a year, NSF is now asking on 
> a very short timescale for an assessment of the impact. There is one 
> question posed where we can use your input on the impact of a 1 year 
> delay of MREFC funding.
>
> “Please also comment on the impacts, by Level 2 WBS, of the impacts if 
> there were to be a one-year delay in the start of MREFC funding. Include 
> the risks or standing army costs of engineer and technician labor, or 
> other negative impacts of NSF funding delay. Im assuming the risk of 
> losing key technical staff in your engineering pool that would otherwise 
> move to other projects at the various universities is a big factor.”
>
> Can you please provide an initial assessment for your L2 asap – note we 
> are requested to provide an answer by 9am tomorrow (Friday)!
>
> Thanks, PO
>
> *From:* Coles, Mark W. <mcoles AT nsf.gov>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:23 PM
> *To:* Michael Tuts <tuts AT pmtuts.net>; Anders Ryd <anders.ryd AT cornell.edu>
> *Cc:* Gonzalez, Saul <sgonzale AT nsf.gov>; Caldwell, C. Denise 
> <dcaldwel AT nsf.gov>
> *Subject:* VERY IMPORTANT
> *Importance:* High
>
> Dear Mike and Anders
>
> Would each of you please send me, by 9AM Friday morning, your immediate 
> assessment of the impacts on the ATLAS or CMS MREFC program of the CERN 
> schedule delay? Please provide a summary, by level 2 WBS element, of 
> what you believe this impacts to be, or if there are none.
>
> Please also comment on the impacts, by Level 2 WBS, of the impacts if 
> there were to be a one-year delay in the start of MREFC funding. Include 
> the risks or standing army costs of engineer and technician labor, or 
> other negative impacts of NSF funding delay. Im assuming the risk of 
> losing key technical staff in your engineering pool that would otherwise 
> move to other projects at the various universities is a big factor.
>
> Please provide a summary description of the process that ATLAS and CMS, 
> at the international level, will implement (or that you anticipate they 
> will implement) to realign their construction programs, and any knock-on 
> effects on NSF.
>
> Please try to keep this at a concise summary level so that the whole 
> response is about one page for each detector.
>
> I expect to get a thousand hand wringing questions from various high 
> officials within NSF about this, as they hate surprises. Obvviously you 
> are having to react quickly to new information, so it will be important 
> to emphasize where the NSF program is decoupled from other agency 
> activities or the international schedule, minimizing impacts, and where 
> a delayed start by NSF would nevertheless be damaging to NSF-supported 
> scientists and their opportunities to participate in the HL LHC program.
>
> Email if you have more questions. Our goal here at NSF is to put out a 
> three page summary by COB Friday, one page from NSF internal evaluation, 
> one page from ATLAS, and one from CMS.
>
> The delay information we’ve seen here at NSF was blamed on the need for 
> a long detector fabrication schedule. What is driving it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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