Information regarding the current effort ongoing with CARA to determine the steps needed to have a mission move away from being supported by CARA, otherwise referred to as Devolving/Devolution. Information regarding the working group established to undertake this effort, documents agreed that needed to be written and plans for a parallel operations period.The communication between ESMO and CARA during the Parallel Operations periodwill be as the following:– A daily email will be sent from ESMO to CARA describing each HIE that is being actively planned andworked, and the action that ESMO is planning on taking– A weekly email will be sent from ESMO to CARA listing the progress toward achieving the paralleloperations success criteria– The CARA team will remain on distribution for ESMO HIE communications and CAM invitationsassociated with DAMs/RMMs during the parallel operations period– At a minimum, 2 members of the CARA team will be in attendance at all ESMO planning and reviewdiscussions– A monthly email will be sent from ESMO to CARA with the HIE metrics• During parallel operations, ESMO will contact NASA Headquarters to report any redDevolution Working Group laid out and completed all steps needed tobegin parallel operations• Parallel Ops for ESMO began on 11/26 (CARA in shadow mode only)• Any lessons learned from parallel ops will be folded back intodocuments/templates• Hope to achieve all success criteria < 6 months• Decision for permanent devolution will be based on completion ofparallel ops and other future documentation creation (CARA Standardand Handbook, etc) and reviews (ORR)event which is less than 2 days from TCA, including the proposed remediation, on anas-needed daily basis flow using SpaceTrack to send and receive data