PREPARING FOR A SUCCESSFUL EVMS CERTIFICATION

The client, a government agency, requires its contractor to obtain an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) certification that meets the intent of ANSI/EIA-748-B, Earned Value Management Systems. The contractor has extensive experience with certification preparation, having completed two certifications within two years. Information from a previous EVMS certification and internal system surveillances are used to prepare for client-based EVMS certifications and bi-annual surveillances. The contractor also sent members of its group to assist other companies preparing for surveillances and certifications to perform 'Black Hat Reviews.' This paper is a lessons learned on preparing a team for EVMS certification. The information is also applicable for surveillances, since the contractor prepares its team for the surveillance in the same manner as the initial certification. Some of the areas covered include required documents, tracing the data through the systems, Control Account Manager (CAM) preparation, and system verification

Visualizing and controlling vibrational wave packets of single molecules

The active steering of the pathways taken by chemical reactions and the optimization of energy conversion processes provide striking examples of the coherent control of quantum interference through the use of shaped laser pulses. Experimentally, coherence is usually established by synchronizing a subset of molecules in an ensemble with ultra-short laser pulses. But in complex systems where even chemically identical molecules exist with different conformations and in diverse environments, the synchronized subset will have an intrinsic inhomogeneity that limits the degree of coherent control that can be achieved. A naturaland, indeed, the ultimatesolution to overcoming intrinsic inhomogeneities is the investigation of the behaviour of one molecule at a time. The single-molecule approach has provided useful insights into phenomena as diverse as biomolecular interactions, cellular processes and the dynamics of supercooled liquids and conjugated polymers. Coherent state preparation of single molecules has so far been restricted to cryogenic conditions, whereas at room temperature only incoherent vibrational relaxation pathways have been probed. Here we report the observation and manipulation of vibrational wave-packet interference in individual molecules at ambient conditions. We show that adapting the time and phase distribution of the optical excitation field to the dynamics of each molecule results in a high degree of control, and expect that the approach can be extended to achieve single-molecule coherent control in other complex inhomogeneous systems.Fil: Brinks, Daan. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques; EspañaFil: Stefani, Fernando Daniel. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Kulzer, Florian. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques; EspañaFil: Hildner, Richard. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques; EspañaFil: Taminiau, Tim H.. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques; EspañaFil: Avlasevich, Yuri. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research; AlemaniaFil: Müllen, Klaus. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research; AlemaniaFil: Van Hulst, Niek F.. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques; España. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats; Españ