The SciDAC2 Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET) began operation on 10/1/2006. This document, dated 11/27/2006, is the first version of the VACET project management plan. It was requested by and delivered to ASCR/DOE. It outlines the Center's accomplishments in the first six weeks of operation along with broad objectives for the upcoming future (12-24 months).

This paper accompanies a poster that is being presented at the SciDAC 2006 meeting in Denver, CO. This project focuses on leveraging scientific visualization and analytics software technology as an enabling technology for increasing scientific productivity and insight. Advances incomputational technology have resulted in an "information big bang," which in turn has createda significant data understanding challenge. This challenge is widely acknowledged to be one of the primary bottlenecks in contemporary science. The vision for our Center is to respond directly to that challenge by adapting, extending, creating when necessary and deploying visualization and data understanding technologies for our science stakeholders. Using an organizational model as a Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET), we are well positioned to be responsive to the needs of a diverse set of scientific stakeholders in a coordinated fashion using a range of visualization, mathematics, statistics, computer and computational science and data management technologies.