On 17 July 2019 Dr Manfred Scriba and Ms Margaret Ward visited DSI to discuss the contractual landscape of the NMMF implementation.

The meeting was very positive with the following highlights:

  • DST is committed to 15 years for support for the SARIR facilities such as NMMF
  • The support will be renewable in 3 year cycles
  • The NMMF can take a “soft landing approach” meaning that not everything has to be in place immediately upon establishment.
  • It is still expected that the DSI will contract with one hub which sub-contracts with a number of nodes.
  • Minutes of the meeting can be found in the downloads section.