The Observatory Computing Council (OCC) is an advisory group to the NRAO Director and the NRAO e2e Operations Division, which is positioned to act on OCC recommendations. NRAO Members and their primary project/division affiliation are:

The OSC will advise the Director on policy issues related to science and academic affairs at the NRAO. Specific issues include the policies and activities of the SAA (Science and Academic Affairs.)

Other issues include (1) the review of ideas for new telescopes, or new projects, and new instrumentation for existing telescopes; (2) to stimulate the scientific environment for research throughout the NRAO, including the organization of research support for the scientific staff.

The members of this council have been asked to serve initially for a one-year term. The membership includes:

The Council will advise the NRAO Director on technical issues that confront the Observatory, and will provide Observatory-wide perspective and coordination in all technical areas, including future planning and R&D, current operations and problems, and projects such as the EVLA and ALMA.

The members of this council serve 3-year renewable terms.

In September 2002, a small advisory group was created, to perform an in- depth and end-to-end look at the technical progress of the ALMA construction, on the North American (NA) side. The committee is to report to the NRAO Director, who will feed findings back to the JAO and others, as appropriate. It is anticipated that our European partners may want to be involved in this review process too, but for expediency ***ANATAC*** has been asked to commence its work immediately.

Current membership is:

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