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Fundamental AcousticsLaboratories / Est. 1958

FAL-AR-21

Operating Summary and Public Record, 2021

The 2021 report records the ground-resonance continuity review and the first operational planning cycle after the Stratis analysis partnership became central to public candidate triage.

Public operating summary

The 2021 report records the ground-resonance continuity review and the first operational planning cycle after the Stratis analysis partnership became central to public candidate triage.

Operating facts

Continuous recording
99.96% station uptime
Active Field Array hosts
26,020 average monthly
Public catalog accessions
7 public records
Archive digitization
251 media items stabilized or indexed
Operating reserve
26 months at current burn
Publication policy
No funder review before release
Fig. 1 Operating support mix -- Public summary percentages; detailed financial statements are not published.

Research record

  • Completed the continuous-observation review for Calder Ridge ground-coupled resonance.
  • Moved Stratis scoring into standing candidate triage under human review.
  • Revised calibration-break notes so older records could be compared honestly against current instruments.
  • Started the public-language review that later became the modern classification standard.

Stewardship

Support was directed toward calibration continuity rather than new public programs.
Directorate review reaffirmed that machine scoring cannot determine scientific conclusions.
Long-lived instruments were treated as archive assets, not replaceable equipment alone.

Archive and records

  • The ground-resonance sensor lineage table was reconciled back to 1961.
  • Calibration breaks were tied to instrument drawings and maintenance notes where available.
  • Several older public summaries were held back pending reclassification under modern language standards.

Open operating risks

  • Comparing decades of recordings requires explicit calibration-break accounting.
  • The archive remains exposed to knowledge loss when retiring staff hold undocumented context.
  • The Field Array queue was approaching the scale at which manual intake review would fail.