<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dear MOLLER collaborators,</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mark and I are sending this email to announce our next collaboration meeting and to update you on recent activities. </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We will have our next collaboration meeting on Wednesday August 12 - Thursday August 13 at Jefferson Lab. More details will follow soon, but please mark your calendars now.</span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">As you all probably know, we will soon have the report from NSAC on the latest long range planning exercise. As many of you know, MOLLER was quite prominently mentioned both in the QCD and the Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos White Papers. During the LRP meeting in Kitty Hawk, there was an open session in which future potential MIE’s were discussed. A MOLLER presentation was solicited and was presented as one such initiative and it was very well-received. We are optimistic that a strong endorsement will result in MOLLER being folded into the planning in DOE/NSF NP as an MIE over the next few years.</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">If you were not at the JLab User's Group meeting, we encourage you to listen to Tim Hallman's comments on MOLLER and the likely next steps by going to 1:18:09 of the User's Group video archive of the meeting (</span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-ufmCUUEbNwq">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-ufmCUUEbNwq</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">)</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We have also been working with the lab to define the next steps for the experiment. While MOLLER is not still a formal project i.e. we are have not entered the CD-N process, we are working under the assumption that the Science Review served as the CD-0 review and we are beginning to operate under the management structure that would ensue when we do enter the formal project stage:</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">1. The Level 2 managers have provided information that went into the preparation of a pre-R&D request to the lab for support in the FY16 and FY17 time frames. This is for items considered essential to making critical technology choices for the MOLLER experiment. The request is currently being considered by the lab. In parallel, we are preparing (at the request of Gulshan Rai at DOE) a Research Management Plan that will describe the R&D that is being done at various collaborating institutions that is critical to the development of the MOLLER design. It is hoped that the combination of JLab support for pre-R&D and directed User grant support from DOE/NSF will allow us to continue our positive momentum in the development of the technical aspects of the MOLLER design over the next two years.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">2. After our successful DOE Science Review in September 2014, the lab management would like to have a Director's technical feasibility review in late September 2015. This will help us prepare for the likely next step from DOE, which would be a technical feasibility review late in this year, after the NSAC long range planning activity is complete. We expect that these reviews will loosely conform to the parameters of a CD-1 review for a conventional DOE project.</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class="">In preparation for the September Director's review, we will need to prepare a draft project management plan (PMP) and an updated version of our MIE proposal that was last updated in preparation for the September 2014 DOE Science Review. Javier is preparing a template section for the PMP (with input from Rolf, Thia, and Allison Lung of the 12 GeV project) that L2 managers can use to prepare their sections. </span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The existing MIE proposal already has a significant amount of information about technical feasibility that is primarily in the appendices. Before updating begins, it is being restructured to bring the technical feasibility information forward into the main body. We will be in touch shortly with the L2 managers with details of what needs to be done on these two documents and a timetable for completing it over the next two months.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Regards,</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">KK and Mark</span></div></body></html>