Summary of NCSX System Integration Team (SIT) Meeting of Monday, October 10, 2005
 (concluded on Oct. 11, 2005)

1.    FY-06 Planning and Budget Strategy

• All necessary estimate updates have been submitted and reviewed except WBS 17.
• We converged on the project plan to present at the Lehman review:
  
  • Request contingency to cover FY-05 variances where the risks are retired.  Might carry some variances for another few weeks and pick them up in subsequent ECPs, but all variances will be visible.
  • Request contingency to cover the estimate in most of the FY-06 jobs that have increases, including increases in MC design, VV design, coil interface hardware, and management.
  • In the case of MC and TF winding, we recognize the increased estimates as having a sound basis, but request contingency for only the first 3 MC and first 2 TF coils at this time. We will learn a great deal about production costs after the first few coils and will re-evaluate budget needs after that.
    
    • We will maintain a management focus on process improvement throughout these production activities. This is the new focus of our VE activities.
      
  • Offset contingency requests with some value improvements and work reductions, including some changes in the technical baseline which we have been analyzing recently: simpler e-beam mapping equipment, simpler trim coils, substitute PF1a for the central solenoid.
  • The contingency will wind up around 20%, plus or minus.
  • Risks recently recognized but still being worked and not yet quantified:   TF wedge casting price, poloidal break bolts, growth in FY-07 FPA tasks.
    

2.    Lehman Review Preparation

• Plans have been updated based on DOE guidance and changed project situation with the arrival of the C1 MCWF. Review is expected to emphasize credibility of realism of project cost and schedule estimates.
• Revised agenda and speaker guidance was issued.
• Documentation requirements wee reviewed. To be posted next week.
• Dry runs are scheduled for Oct. 20-21. Presentations will be posted the week of Oct. 24.
• Updated planning package was issued to SIT and all speakers.
  

3.  Next SIT Meeting: t.b.a.

Summary by:
Hutch Neilson