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Overall impression
- Great progress on all technical areas
- Great interaction-New people immersed in the AA community
- Gradual cohesion on science requirements-Community is busy with PathFinders/PreCursors
- Many top-level issues still open-Risk that we close our eyes for some realities
- Planning highly uncertain-Especially for verification systems
What’s needed
- From the SPO: - Collaborative leadership- Courage and competence to make choices and face the consequences
- From the science community: - Write up what has been concluded here- Continue to bring coherence, seek broad support
- From the engineering teams:- Write up what has been concluded here- Combine and conclude: integrate the good work, prepare for tough decisions on top-level issues.
Position of ASTRON
Community asked us to take the lead for the AA Consortium in the Pre-Construction Phase
ASTRON will continue to live up to his
AA-low and AA-mid
Facilitating collaboration
Integrating concepts and ideas
Bringing in reality checks
Position of ASTRON
Jan-Gerald bij de Vaate taking the initiative for setting up the AA SoW with SPO
Supported by Ilse van Bemmel for science link
Interacting by Andre Gunst an SPO side
Facilitating, integrating
=> Needs your support
Making choices, bringing in reality
=> Will lead to some contention
SKA1 ... SKA2
Connecting Industry and Science in the SKA
CISS.nl
What’s needed
- Courage and competence to make choices and face the consequences
- Consolidate what was concluded in this meeting
- Combine subsystem insights and concentrate on top-level issues
-Single/dual band-Power issues-Computational load
