Dec.05
LOFAR Critical Design Review in Progress
The Critical Design Review for LOFAR is under way. It is planned as a two phase process. First, roughly every two weeks starting in mid-September, a series of six critical reviews of the main sub-systems is being carried out:

(1) Antennas, receivers, ADC;

(2) Station digital processing;

(3) Monitoring, control, specification and scheduling;

(4) Wide area network and central processor;

(5) Calibration; and

(6) User software and key projects. Uncertainties resulting from these sub-system reviews are expected to be resolved by early in the New Year, when a final, full system level CDR will be held. Following the latter, a definitive construction budget can be finalized, and procurement and roll-out can begin. Land acquisition and planning permission for the central core and inner stations are proceeding well and are not expected to delay roll-out.

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