1. CXC Response to June 04 Report 1.Bakeout Status: Paul Plucinsky 2.CIAO upgrade information: Jonathan McDowell 3.DS9 and visualization scripts: Jonathan McDowell 4.Calibration: 1.Status and requirements: Larry David 2.Iridium Edge: Herman Marshall 5.Pileup: Jonathan McDowell 6.Joint Proposals: we feel the process is working, we will continue to instruct panels to critique all time requests carefully 7.Cross-Calibration:

2. Observation Cycle 6 Status  Cycle 6 Proposal Statistics –Received 789 proposals, accepted 191 TypeNo. ProposalsNo. TargetsAllocated Time (ks) (or $: AR,Th) ARCHIVE180$1,105,693 GO1293259960 GTO (competed)3484 LP8382867 THEORY70$488,224 TOO22341833 TOO/LP12340 VLP3122794

3. Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)

4. Cycle 6 Peer Review Report

5. Cycle 6 Peer Review Report (cont)

7. Cycle 7 Status Schedule and Deadlines for the CfP Cycle EventDate CfP Release15 December 2004 Science Proposal Deadline (Stage 1)6 p.m. EST, 15 March 2005 Peer Review21-23 June 2005 Selected Proposals AnnouncedEarly July 2005 Budget Deadline (Stage 2)6 p.m. EDT, 18 August 2005 Cost ReviewSeptember 2005 Stage 2 Final SelectionOctober 2005 EPO Electronic Deadline5 p.m. EDT, 21 October 2005 EPO Hardcopy Deadline4 p.m. EDT, 25 October 2005 EPO ReviewDecember 2005 Cycle 7 StartsAbout December 2005

8. What’s New in Cycle 7 Summary (Section 1.5 of CfP) Spitzer Joint Time: 110 hours Spitzer time allocated by Chandra review (400 ksec Chandra time to Spitzer review) Pitch Angle Restrictions: Restriction due to EPHIN → 70-120° New restriction, pitch angle > 168° to avoid frozen fuel lines (already being put in place for Cycle 6) Proposals: PDF files only Electronic distribution to reviewers (on CDRom), hardcopies on request only Target Specifications: emphasizing that all specifications should be explicitly entered on RPS form TOO Specification: expanded to allow follow-ups to explicitly include a different instrument (previously link had to be made manually by the CXC) Time-constrained fraction: has been reduced to 15% of targets

9. User Interface Changes  Contact Scientists: have been removed as an option  User Interface (USINT): self-serve users now include: –experienced PIs with unconstrained observations –CXC and GTO PIs –Help/USINT assignment is available on request.