After a brief overview of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, the
status of construction, installation and commissioning is described. Very good
progress has been achieved in the past year. Though many significant challenges
still lie ahead, CMS should be ready for recording data from first collisions
in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator complex at CERNComment: 7 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings for the 2006 Hadron Collider Physics
conference at Duke Universit
