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Engineering Working Group (EWG)

Industry Liaison Task Force

One way of enhancing the contact between the SKA project and industry will be via the ILTF, to be chaired by the international project engineer.

Terms of reference:

• Advise the ISPO and ISSC, via the international project engineer, on industry interaction aspects of the international SKA project, including:
- The effects of industry collaboration on the SKA project in its various phases, and principles for maximizing the number of positive outcomes
- Political implications of industry collaboration, including the role of such collaboration in presenting the project to potential funding bodies
- Opportunities for engagement of industry with the SKA project in its various phases, and identification of industry sectors, or individual players, likely to be interested in the international project
- International legal and associated issues arising from industry linkages, and mechanisms for ensuring desired collaboration models remain possible throughout the project
- Project management arrangements required to implement and oversee quality industry collaborations
- The effect on overall SKA project structure flowing from various alternative industry participation models

• Function as an impartial advice, commentary and review body for national demonstrator and pathfinder projects in areas such as those listed above.

• Act as a forum for the exchange of ideas between the SKA project and industry.

• Produce a whitepaper dealing with SKA industry interaction for consideration by the SKA community and by external assessors charged with evaluating the SKA project. The draft whitepaper will be available by December 31 2005, with the final version completed by March 31 2006. The whitepaper will be prepared according to agreed EWG guidelines (also applicable to other, more technical, papers) and will address issues such as those mentioned above.

Members

- Dave DeBoer, Australian Telescope National Facility, Australia
- Peter Dewdney, NRC, Canada
- Bernie Fanaroff, Fanaroff Associates, South Africa
- Peter Hall (Chair), International SKA Project Office
- Stephen Kahn, Pro Contra b.v., The Netherlands
- John O'Sullivan, CSIRO ATNF, Australia
- Jan Reitsma, ASTRON, The Netherlands
- Richard Schilizzi, International SKA Project Office