IMACS is being funded by OCIW through the Magellan instrumentation budget, and will be designed and fabricated at OCIW. In effect, the customer and supplier are the same entity, which both simplifies and complicates project tracking and reporting. In order to keep the OCIW community and outside contributers (consultants, contractors, crucial suppliers) informed about the state of the project, monthly progress reports will be produced and distributed.
When the various technical areas of the project (optics, detector systems, mechanics, electronics, and software), reach a sufficient level of maturity, regular project meetings (monthly?) will be held to review current work and coordinate plans for the next reporting period. Minutes from the project meetings will become the primary source for information distributed in the progress reports.