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Rubin Digest 03 February 2017
3 February 2017: Project News The AURA Management Council for LSST (AMCL) met this week in Tucson. The AMCL meets three times a year, and is AURA's oversight and advocacy committee for LSST. Steve Kahn, Beth Willman, Victor Krabbendam, and Chuck Claver presented on topics related to LSST construction progress, commissioning planning, and operations planning. LSST Systems Engineers Kathryn Wesson and Brian Selvy attended the NASA JPL Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Symposium and Workshop and then the 2017 INCOSE International Workshop last week. They had the opportunity to collaborate with systems engineers from NASA JPL, TMT, and GMT, and were able to interact with vendors of software tools used by LSST such as MagicDraw and Syndeia. The systems engineers from GMT, TMT, and LSST agreed to continue collaborating on developing modeling capabilities of mutual benefit to all projects, with the long term goal of developing a reference model for large, ground based …