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Technology Maturation Section of the PICO report.

I have been tasked to draft the technology maturation section of the PICO report. This outlines how we will have all new technologies at TRL5 by 2023. Since this may impact NASA funding decision's you should have incentive review this and offer feedback. We stress that many of the decisions made here were to retire as much risk as possible, so the design does not use “cutting edge” technologies, but rather uses established hardware. The design is basically finalized for the report at this point, so we can't really change that at this point, but are rather interested in knowing how to get to TRL5. There is a subsection that includes “enhancing technologies” that are more speculative. Also note that this really can't exceed 5 pages.

Jonas Zmuidzinas and Peg Frerking (from JPL) will review this section and offer comments as well for an internal review. I think this needs to to finalized over the next week, so if you have opinions, please provide them sooner rather than later.

For obscure reasons related to export compliance, I cannot email this draft to you. Rather, I can post it to the UMN wiki for Pico. Please ask Shaul for access if you do not already have it.

PICO's Technology Maturation Section

Best, Roger