DKIST General
Operational Status
DKIST is in week 4 of Engineering period Eng. 2025a.
DKIST senior leadership has been preparing for the DKIST Concept of Operations review (see below)
Events
The AURA SOC meeting was held on Maui: 1/28 - 1/30
NSF Concept of Operations Review: 2/10 - 2/14
SciOps and OpsTools team
Accomplishments
Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
Scientists are creating the experiments for Cycle 3 accepted proposals.
Registered DKIST User database clean-up continues.
Planning of Cycle 4 is ongoing.
TechOps team
Accomplishments
Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
InstOps team
Accomplishments
Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
Data Center team
Accomplishments
Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
EHS team
Accomplishments
Preparation for ConOps review ongoing.
Gary attended the NSF Research Infrastructure Office, Safety Officer Working Group at LIGO in Baton Rouge, LA.
We created a new “General Use Fall Protection” training for all DKIST employees that do not qualify as authorized users and do not work in fall protection equipment. It will cover walking working surfaces, recognizing fall hazards as well as proper ladder use.
The DKIST bi-mothly