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OOI Program Update Tim Cowles. Design Elements 4 Global sites 3 Regional cabled sites in the NE Pacific 2 Coastal arrays: Mid-Atlantic Pioneer Array, PNW Endurance Array Each scale incorporates mobile assets - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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OL Board of Trustees March 10, 2011
Ocean Observatories Initiative
OOI Program Update
Tim Cowles
OL Board of Trustees March 10, 2011
Ocean Observatories Initiative
Navy Briefi
ng
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Design Elements
4 Global sites
3 Regional cabled sites in the NE Pacific
2 Coastal arrays: Mid-Atlantic Pioneer Array, PNW Endurance Array
Each scale incorporates mobile assets
Cyberinfrastructure: enables adaptive sampling, custom observatory view, collaborative analysis
Interfaces for education users
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OOI overarching goals
OOI has two fundamental scientific and research
mandates that underpin its construction:
• Sustained delivery of high-quality data for two to three
decades;• Maintenance of the expandability of the infrastructure
to support new capabilities.
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OOI overarching goals
We address those mandates by meeting the science
requirements during construction, and by building in the most
cost-effective approaches to operating the infrastructure.
The most cost-effective approaches include:• A model for the lowest possible annual operating cost • No compromises to science, safety, and data integrity• Incorporation of established change control processes, risk
management process, policies for adding new science...
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Gaps identified in October 2010
•Some high-value work elements behind schedule•Procurement actions slower than planned•Still understaffed across the project even with
remarkable growth since start of construction in Sept 2009
•Weak web site and external communications
Under pressure from NSF and OMB to show
improvements in progress within next 6 months
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Corrective Action Plan: Initial Issues
Four areas were the primary focal points for action
• Weaknesses in some management structures
• PM and Engineering – tasking and coordination
• Subaward management
• Gaps in staffing
• Schedule Management -> Progress toward milestones
• Rate of procurement across the program
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Schedule ‘replanning’ process
External specialists have been guiding a replan of the
OOI schedule during the implementation of the
Corrective Action Plan• Integrating construction and O&M into one schedule
• Adding more granularity into the schedule to improve tracking of
milestones
Will be complete late March/early April and will become the new
‘baseline’ for the OOI
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OOI CAP Performance Metrics
Progress assessed on
StaffingProcurementsDesigns, Products
• Achieved hiring as defined in staffing plans at each IO • Made good progress on procurements of platforms and
instruments as defined in procurement table• Delivered 80% of products ‘on time’ as set in the CAP
milestone list
Progress in these areas indicates improved coordination and integration of Project Management and Engineering
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CAP: Hiring Targets, Milestones, Results
12/17/10 2/18/11
Hiring Target (including contractors) Hiring
Achieved
Hiring TargetCumulative Hiring
AchievedObjective Adequate Objectiv
e Adequate
PMO 8 6 6 14 10 13
CI 11 8 8 17 12 16
CGSN 18 13 19 24 17 22
RSN 8 6 5 9 6 9
Total 45 32 38 64 46 60
Numbers relative to OOI staffing on September 30, 2010
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OOI Progress based on Earned Value
COST variance
SCHEDULE variance
improving
POS
NEG
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Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN)
Global
Pioneer
Endurance
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Progress in Marine Design
Institutionally-Designed Platforms, Coastal
Moorings• The In-shore Coastal Mooring test unit is complete with
a preliminary detailed design of prototype and a prototype build
• The technical drawing package is mature and a TDP drawing design package has been developed.
• The mooring has been built and awaiting ship availability for deployment
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Test Deployments to Evaluate DesignsIn Shore Test Mooring 2 (ISTM2): March 2011 – July 2011 At the Endurance Array site, surface wave heights that are large
fractions of water depth are a large design challenge.
Testing: Mooring and buoy design for 25 m site.
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Test Deployments to Evaluate Designs
Example: In Shore Test Mooring 2 (ISTM2): March 2011 – July 2011
Redesigned universal joint
Buoy (foreground) and stretch hose (background)
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Progress in Marine DesignInstitutionally-Designed Platforms, Global Moorings
• At-Sea Test Moorings (3) are approximately 50% complete and portions of the prototypes are under construction.
• Test deployment is now scheduled for September 2011• Multiple design and build milestones over the next 6 months• Focused IO and PMO attention on work and relative progress
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Technical Progress: Deployments will test designsAt Sea Test 2 (AST2): Sept 2011 – April 2012
At the Pioneer Array site
Coastal Surface Mooring (CSM)
Coastal Profiler Mooring (CPM)
will be tested in 500 m of water.
Pioneer Array
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Test Deployments to Evaluate DesignsAt Sea Test 2 (AST2):
September 2011 – April 2012
Seaward of the Pioneer Array site,
a global hybrid profiler mooring
to be tested in 2,500 m of water.
Concerns about global surface profiler and
operations with compound mooring
deployment/recovery to be addressed.
Hybrid profiler mooring
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At Sea Test 2 (AST2) TimeLine2011
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
AST2 Design
AST2 Manufacture and Build
AST2 Integration
Burn-in
In the Water(thru April 2012)
AST2 CruiseSept 22, 2011
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Progress in Marine Design (Regional)
Approximately half of the Regional System technical designs are on schedule are under the Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract with L3-MariPro. Other items are within the schedule float and should not delay any deployments.
The non-L3 major infrastructure pieces of the cable system have been specified and contracted
• The physical hard connection point of presence (POP)
• Telecommunication backbone service to the shore station
• The physical shore station
• Conduits from the shore station to the shore landing manholes
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Horizontal Directional Drilling at Pacific City, Oregon
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Survey to determine cable route in 2010
An octopus lounges on a basalt flow at a water depth of ~1520 m within
the caldera of Axial Volcano.
Black smoker in the ASHES Hydrothermal Field imaged during a
detailed bathymetric and video survey of the area as a potential node site for the OOI Regional
Cabled Observatory.
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Test of Secondary Infrastructure support
A half-scale model of a potential frame design is lowered off the R/V Thompson for a one-year deployment at Southern Hydrate Ridge using Medea and Jason. The frame is also being tested to see how different
materials react to biofouling during long-duration deployments.
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CyberInfrastructure Technical Progress
Architecture of Infrastructure and R1• Good progress on messaging and computational features• Over 100 Enterprise Architecture drawings complete
• Common Operating Infrastructure• Common Execution Infrastructure• Data Management• External Observatory Integration• Sensing and Acquisition
User Interface design• 10 workflows defined covering 13 screens and 84 panels
• (a screen is made up of panels)
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CI Technical Progress
Software Detailed Design/Coding Release 1•Screen Design, wire frames for release 1 completed
•Full implementation in R1 in June 2011
•Release 1 provides foundational code for ingestion and
distribution of external data
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CI Technical Progress
Hardware and Network Systems• The San Diego Engineering Center is operational• Designs and BoMs for the Portland, Seattle, and Woods Hole
cyberPoPs are complete• Point of Presence (POP) hardware procurement re-planned for
April for Portland and Seattle and later 2011 for Woods Hole
The specification, Statement of Work, and RFP for the national backbone are undergoing contract review
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OOI changes since Oct 2010
Organizational changes within OOI Project Office
• Senior Project Scientist to begin April 25 – Steve Ackleson
• OOI Director of Communications – Kerry Beck
• Engaged experienced contractors to assist with O&M while
completing search for new O&M Manager
• new Deputy Program Manager – Greg Settle
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OOI changes since Oct 2010
Organizational changes at Implementing Organizations
• More details than can be summarized here!
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Action Plan
Our adjustments as we approach the Year 2 review• Review and analysis of technical progress
• Implement the new schedule
• Assessment vulnerabilities to continued progress
• Take corrective steps as needed
• Clarify data products and data sampling
• Enhance science engagement through improved communications
• Improve budgetary evaluations of long-term operational expenses
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Concerns
• Pace of work is intense and the team is working too many hours.
Burn-out is a primary concern.
• Unsettled budgetary environment has not yet complicated cash
flow, but……stay tuned
• Clarifying pathways for science engagement