This week, our team was able to present our project plan to our liaisons through our project management tool, Trello. The Kanban board is clear and well-organized, making it easy for our liaisons to follow.

We also spoke with our liaisons on formalizing a date for our team to come down to the site and present our Preliminary Design Review (PDR). We are coordinating with the other team sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Flash, so that we can present on the same day. The earliest possible date that works for Lockheed Martin is October 20th, 2026.

The team has continued to do more research on several topics including the AI/ML inference models, timing side channel analysis testing, SoC board specifications, and LLM environment set ups.

Later in the week, the team was able to get a great portion of the PDR report draft complete. We were also able to complete the Preliminary Design Architecture; we are just waiting on our coach’s approval.

Next week, we plan on finishing the PDR report draft and PDR presentation slides. We also will conduct our PDR peer review event, where we will perform a mock presentation in front of other IPPD teams, receive feedback, and provide feedback on other presentations.