Responsibilities

The Project Office, under the direction of the VEC, will be responsible for the following tasks:

• providing local scientific leadership and providing the day-to-day management of the project,

• drawing up the overall project specifications, project plan and yearly plans for approval,

• assessing the work accomplished to date; monitoring progress at frequent intervals,

• outlining the technical work to be pursued during that year and estimating the cost of such work,

• determining the availability of resources to accomplish the proposed work,

• assigning detailed responsibility for carrying out the tasks, monitoring the tasks and ensuring that they are within agreed schedule and budget, and

• monitoring the task interfaces.

To aid the Project Office, each institution will provide to it timely reports specifying in some detail both past expenditures and future plans regarding finances and personnel. These reports will be due to the Project Office one year from the signing of this agreement, and yearly thereafter. The Project Office will issue its report within 60 days after the end of each year's activities.

The Project Office will be located at the VERITAS site 40 miles south of Tucson, Arizona. The Project Office will avail of the general administrative services of the Whipple Observatory Administrative Office nearby.