Transcript Response

GLAST LAT Project
ISOC
RFA 15 – ISOC Org. and Comm.
• RFA 15 Specific Request:
– What problem are you solving by separating the ISOC into two
organizations, LOF & SOG?
• Recommendation: merge these two organizations into a
single group with an experienced manager.
– Also need to ensure that the ISOC ground/operations team and
the Flight Software Team are coordinating and communicating
where needed. It is critical that these two teams work together to
ensure that the FSW design is consistent with the ISOC design
and operations concepts.
• Describe how this coordination is occurring, or if it’s not
occurring adequately, describe and implement a plan ASAP
for making it happen. Also, ensure that the relationship
between the SOG and SAS is clear, understood, and
documented.
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GLAST LAT Project
ISOC
RFA 15 – ISOC Org. and Comm. – 2/2
• RFA 15 Response
– The current ISOC organization eliminates the LOF/SOG/SAS
distinction. All requirements for monitoring housekeeping
and on monitoring science data are on the ISOC as a group,
not on individual functional units. The ISOC manager is
ultimately responsible for all ISOC functions; he may
choose to designate a manager to oversee some subset of
these functions. The team leads of each of the functional
units within the ISOC meet daily and are jointly responsible
for successful operation of the instrument and the
production of science data.
– The coordination between the ISOC and FSW has been
improved significantly by scheduling weekly meetings
between the ISOC and the FSW team to ensure that
requirements are consistent and that assumptions about
scenarios, modes and anomaly resolution are shared
between the two teams.
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