Subject: PEM Contract Update

From: [email-masked] (David Winningham)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 10:34:41 CDT

I have the final contract value number for PEM for the launch + 18 ops plus 
analysis phase and the subsequent 12 month analysis phase. The only change 
we will have will be the LPARL March 91 cost growth contract mod increment 
(note this adds no new resources as it has already been spent). Thus what we 
have is what we have, i.e. no more money. We must live within our proposed 
amounts in the 1989 post delivery proposal. Our efforts must be directed to 
the science relevant to UARS goals and our manpower used accordingly. We have 
just received the next allotment of funds and will send POs to those of you 
who are up for a new allotment. We will continue to allot the funds in a way 
so we come out on target per 89 plan(except for LPARL <=March 91 cost growth 
additions adjustments to plan).

Now to the future. We will be asked shortly to submit a proposal to extend 
mission ops by 3.5 years to Oct 96 plus the one year post ops to Oct 97. The 
funding appears to be good compared to the Space Physics norms i.e. UARS 
continues to be a healhtier program than we normally experience. I will let 
you know when the request comes.

Now to other topics. We have found the source of the s/w slowdown that Bob 
Clauer found during training. The code is being optimized and has speed up 
greatly with the changes to date. We are finished with MEPS and VMAG IDFS 
verification. We are almost finished with HEPS and AXIS. O/A is in process 
now and will be finished shortly. They are some float conversion errors we 
must track down. Rudy is starting the Level 3 product IDFS definition and 
creation. He is continuing the Level 3 proton deposition verification. Effects 
of s/c charging are apparent in the deposition spectrograms and will have to 
be coped with.