40 meter laboratory near-term milestones 
(spring, summer, fall 2006)

 * Continue development and implementation of more robust, automated, "deterministic” locking strategies
 * Learn how to tune the detector response for optimal sensitivity and control, by measuring and adjusting length signal extraction parameters. 
 * Develop and test new length signal extraction schemes using lower frequency RF
 * Prototype a DC readout system, including new PCIX-based controls architecture. Understand the noise contributions. 
 * Understand contributions to the GW displacement noise.
 * Reduce technical noise sources to achieve quantum-limited sensitivity at high frequencies.
 * Prototype ASC/WFS solutions for AdvLIGO (need more designer people)
 * Continue development and application of e2e and Optickle QN frequency-domain models.

All the above activities feed directly into AdLIGO Interferometer Sensing and Control subsystem development.
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 * Study the injection of squeezed vacuum into the 40m asymmetric port, using MIT squeezer (beyond AdvLIGO?)