Any business related to the alliance is also discussed in these meeting to include issues both technical and management in nature. We also have frequent trips to the two centers and occasional trips to the Boeing and McDonnell Douglas facilities. In this model, the participants Scan the environment for changes that will affect mission accomplishment, Focus on what they can actually do to take advantage of the new situations, then schedule specific Actions to deal with them. The results of these workshops are the draft for the next year s Plans and Policy Document. This meeting is a key part of our external communications.
External communications follow multiple paths.
The semiannual newsletters, alternately titled The Predictor and The Corrector, distribute alliance news of interest to all users and stakeholders. There have been six to date. Ten User s Meetings have been held to date including the one at this conferencee. User surveys are also used to solicit user input to the Alliance. Figure 6 presents preliminary results of the electronic survey.