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IMPLEMENTATION 
PANEL REPORT 
Panel Chairman: 
Aram M. Mika 
Contributors: 
Bill Barnes 
William Bishop 
Kendall Carder 
Dennis Clark 
Wayne Esaias 
Robert Evans 
Gene Feldman 
David Fischel 
Leon Goldshlak 
Howard Gordon 
Ken Hubbard 
Matthew Jurotich 
Bob Kirk 
George Martch 
Ed Mowle 
James Mueller 
Kenneth Ruggles 
Joseph Schulman 
Richard Stumpf 
Charles Vermillion 
Loren Woody 
Implementation Panel Charter 
and Objectives 
The purpose of the Implementation Panel was to 
translate the mission objectives of the commercial, op- 
erational, and research users into a workable system 
concept that would provide the data required to meet 
the users' needs. The work of this panel supported 
the other panels by defining the technical tradeoffs 
among the performance parameters (e.g., radiometric 
sensitivity versus spectral bandwidth) and by identify- 
ing the practical consequences of various options in 
terms of cost and complexity. Thus, the Implementa- 
tion Panel established a feasibility envelope for the 
Working Group, leading to a system concept that was 
not only useful from the users’ perspective, but also 
technically and economically realizable. 
In essence, the role of the Implementation Panel 
was to pass the desires of the two user panels 
through the dual filters of physical and fiscal reality to 
arrive at a practical system concept meeting their 
needs. This process is illustrated in Figure 18, and the 
panel's charter is summarized below. 
Figure 18. Interactive process leads 
to a workable system concept. 
NEGOTIATION 
SCIENCE/ SCIENCE/ 
RESEARCH USERS RESEARCH USERS 
DESIRES NEEDS 
FEASIBILITY 
INITIAL ASSESSMENT FINAL 
SYSTEM SYSTEM 
CONCEPT COST/PERFORMANCE CONCEPT 
TRADEOFFS 
OPERATIONAL 
USERS USERS 
DESIRES NEEDS 
NEGOTIATION 
OPERATIONAL 
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