[Moller] [EXTERNAL] MOLLER Director's Review Update

[Mark L. Pitt]

Dear MOLLER collaborators,

We are writing to give you an update on the CD-1 Director's Review of 
the MOLLER Project that took place over the past week. The review took 
place virtually this past Tuesday August 18 - Friday August 21 with both 
plenary and breakout sessions.

The committee orally presented its responses to the charge questions, 
comments, and two recommendations early on Friday afternoon.  We attach 
the answers to the charge questions. We will send out the full report 
when we receive it after internal vetting. Some highlights of the oral 
closeout in which the draft comments and recommendations were shared 
included:

  * Ed O'Brien's introductory comments indicated that the committee
    thinks we are in good shape for CD-1 approval with some suggestions
    for improvement.  He said that we should all be very happy and proud
    with what we have accomplished and hopefully even more proud about a
    month from now.

  * The response to all eight review charges was "Yes" with some
    suggestions and references to comments for some of the items.

  * The committee generated findings and comments for all four of the
    Sub-Committee categories, and the comments were read orally during
    the closeout.  There were two recommendations: "The Project should
    proceed to the OPA CD-1 Review" and  "Prioritize the completion of
    the design of the shielding due to its significant cost risk."

  * Finally, the committee provided a two page list of suggestions to
    improve the presentations and documentation in preparation for the
    CD-1 review.

We will be reviewing the feedback from the committee and will be in 
touch soon for help needed in preparation for the September 22 - 24 DOE 
Independent Project Review.

We want to take this opportunity to give thanks for all the hard work 
from the collaboration and project team over many years and the recent 
review-directed preparation that have gotten us to this point.  All the 
presentations were outstanding and the physics leads and the CAMs 
effectively demonstrated our work to date and the team’s overall 
knowledge of the technical scope and the status of project planning.

We will continue to rely on your efforts as we look to success in the 
next review and in the long run for the project as a whole.

Best regards,

KK, Jim, Mark

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Mark Pitt
Department of Physics
Virginia Tech
Robeson Hall
Blacksburg, VA  24061-0435
Phone: (540) 231-3015
Fax:   (540) 231-7511
e-mail:  pitt at vt.edu
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