<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Tyler,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" class=""><blockquote data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class=""><strong class="">2. Is there any time estimate as to when the procurement for these will go through?</strong></span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">It is the question for Patrizia. PRs are ready. We are waiting for money.</div><div class="">At the same time we have plan to borrow the DAQ crate and part of the DAQ electronics from Chris.</div><div class="">So we will have the possibility to start the DAQ test before the procurement will go through.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">We have submitted the PR for 5 SSP but, as Valery correctly said, we are in Continuing Resolutions thus the OPS budget is very lean.</div><div class="">I can not anticipate, at the moment, when we can buy the remaining part of the DAQ electronics</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class="">patrizia</div></body></html>