Director General: The Director General (DG) is the person responsible for managing the organization. The DG's task is not only to guide the organization towards meeting its objectives, but also to ensure that this happens in the most efficient way. The DG has the important role of being the interface between the investors and the operational level. The DG will have to report to the Board of Governors on a regular basis. This report shall include, amongst others, the current technical situation and the most current market analysis. The input on the operational level should be limited to observing whether technical decisions are in accordance with the Board's set requirements. The Director General, with the approval of the Board of Governors, has to plan the development of the organization from the first demonstrator program towards the commercial program. Secretarial Staff: The secretarial staff has the obvious task of supplying the organization with the necessary secretarial support Administration: The primary objective of this directorate is to provide the necessary administrative support to the organization. This includes all the matters connected with the contracts, finance/accounting, personnel and legal affairs. The responsibilities of these departments can be described as: • contracts: coordinate the preparation and issue the Requests for Proposal; negotiate and award the contracts; perform all the administration connected with the contracts • finance/accounting: evaluate, prepare and monitor the yearly budget; oversee the prime- and sub-contractor's payments; perform the accounting relating to the received contribution (in case of the demonstrator) and the received revenues (in case of the commercial Space Solar Power Program) • personnel: coordinate personnel recruitment and training; manage personnel benefits such as, e.g., medical insurance, pension funds • legal affairs: ensure adherence to international treaties and agreements; give support to the contracts department; prepare the legal documents; provide legal advice where necessary and act as counsel in case of disputes. Marketing: The marketing manager (MM) has the responsibility to search for and develop new markets all over the world. The MM will provide market analyses in regular intervals to the Director General. Public Relations: The Public Relations directorate (PR) has the responsibility to interface closely with the different governmental agencies, companies and other organizations involved with the Space Solar Power Program. It is the responsibility of PR to inform the general public about the Space Solar Power Program and its evolution by contacting the appropriate media. Another field of responsibility includes education campaign to obtain and maintain public and political support. Program Manager: The program manager (PM) is responsible for the technical implementation of the program. This manager is appointed by the Board of Directors and will be supported by a staff consisting of the sub program managers, the product assurance manager, the system engineer, the configuration control manager an the program control manager. The PM will report to the Director General. In turn, the staff reports to the PM. The PM has to ensure that the political decisions of the Board of Governors are implemented technically. This will be achieved by coordinating the product assurance, the system engineering, the configuration control , the program control and the subprogram manager's input to the program. Product Assurance: The Product Assurance Manager (PAM) is responsible for the total quality of the program. The PAM has to assure that the reliability of all program elements meets the requirements, and that the quality is according to the international (and agreed upon) quality standard system. Therefore the PAM will be involved during all phases of the program and has a strong interaction with all the other departments and also with the product assurance departments of the subcontractors. The PAM's responsibility includes the evaluation and qualification of new technologies and procedures, as well as the qualification and acceptance tests for all program elements. Also the (final) quality control will be the responsibility of the PAM. Hierarchically, the PAM is located on the same level as the system engineer, the configuration control manager and the program control manager; working ‘under' the Program Manager, but ‘above' the sub program managers. Systems Engineer: The Systems Engineer (SE) is responsible for achieving the most effective technical means to achieve the desired performance of the program. For this, the SE has to define the top-level requirements and the interfaces between the various program elements. The evaluation of
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