  NEID is a high-resolution optical spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope at
Kitt Peak National Observatory and will soon join the new generation of extreme
precision radial velocity instruments in operation around the world. We plan to
use the instrument to conduct the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) over the course
of the next 5 years, collecting hundreds of observations of some of the nearest
and brightest stars in an effort to probe the regime of Earth-mass exoplanets.
Even if we take advantage of the extreme instrumental precision conferred by
NEID, it will remain difficult to disentangle the weak (~10 cm s$^{-1}$)
signals induced by such low-mass, long-period exoplanets from stellar noise for
all but the quietest host stars. In this work, we present a set of quantitative
selection metrics which we use to identify an initial NETS target list
consisting of stars conducive to the detection of exoplanets in the regime of
interest. We also outline a set of observing strategies with which we aim to
mitigate uncertainty contributions from intrinsic stellar variability and other
sources of noise.
