The NGST Integrated Science Instrument Request for Offers went up on the web officially mid last week. It would have gone up in accordance with my last prediction, had our single string, overworked Contracting Officer not taken ill a week ago. Lloyd Purves and Gifford Moak worked very hard on this, and thanks to them for following through.
Short proposals are due soon.
Everyone is hard at work preparing for the upcoming Architecture interims and Mirror PDRs in mid October. The modeling folks are struggling to identify meaningful metrics by which to gauge our progress. This turns out to be fairly non-trivial. They will report their findings to us at the upcoming NGST Quarterly in October. Mail Code 443, Bldg.