Review of supplier’s plan to complete the MCWF deliveries will be held on Jan. 31. A report of the conclusions will be written after the meeting. Follow up discussions to reach agreement on a plan going forward will be held in the next few days thereafter.

Briefings for OFES are planned for Feb. 3 ant Feb. 15. The next Watch List briefing for the Office of Science is Feb. 17.

• Brad presented first results of thermal tests of flexible cable and its attachment to the vacuum vessel. Using forced air as the coolant, performance was almost as good hard tubing. Flow rate was limited by instrumentation issues, which will soon be resolved, whereupon the tests will be extended to higher flow rates.  Ron asked whether performance would be reduced if the pourable insulation got into the gaps between the tubing and vacuum vessel. This was not tested yet but will be investigated. Brad’s assessment:
  
  • The flexible tubing with saddle attachments will work and we should go ahead and buy them.
  • It may require closer attachment spacing than currently planned to achieve required performance. A compromise may be needed.
  • The drawings needed to buy the tubing exist but it was not clear if they are released for fabrication. Action: Brad follow up with Wayne to complete the necessary review and approval process.
    
• The sample heater tape for permeability evaluation has not arrived yet but was shipped last Thursday. Action: Larry follow up.
  

• We are running a CV of ~$800k. Major contributors are Modular Coil Fabrication (Supplies, winding, and re-work, $332k), TF coils ($85k), MC design ($57), Project Mgt. ($58k), Engineering Mgt./SE ($73k), Diagnostics ($62k), and power systems ($65k)
• We are running a SV of ~$1.5M.  Major contributors are VVSA fabrication ($693k), MC design ($197k), VV design ($73k), MC Fab ($139k)
• Responsible managers need to follow up on these issues and take appropriate action to improve our cost and schedule performance.