ICALEPCS 2025 - The 20th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems

Maintaining control system viability amidst declining budgets, resources, and sanity (how I learned to stop worrying and love saying no)

TUBR006

23 Sept 2025, 11:45

15m

Red Lacquer Room (Palmer House Hilton Chicago)

Contributed Oral Presentation MC03: Control System Sustainment and Management TUBR MC03 Control System Sustainment and Management

Speaker

Mr Gary Croke (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Description

The controls systems group at Jefferson Lab has gradually diminished in size over 20 years as the scope of their responsibilities has continued to increase. Following a recent RIF, the group contains only 7 software developers responsible for maintaining hundreds of applications and EPICS IOCs, as well as tackling numerous pressing challenges. The size of the group is currently inadequate for the task. I examine how this situation arose, potential effects, and plans to remedy.