CRIS   - Normal Operation.
         CRIS is not designed to operate during solar energetic particle
         events.

EPAM   - Normal Operation. EPAM continues to work well.
         RTSW data was valid during the July 14-16 event.
	 Almost all of the data during the recent large events are correct.
	 The possible exceptions are a few hours surrounding the shock passage
	 on July 15.  At that time our count rates rose to about 200,000
	 counts per second and there may have been some saturation effects in
	 the data. We have been actively studying the design to try to
	 understand how it responded during these very highest fluxes. We are
	 confident that the higher energy channels and the composition
	 channels are correct.  However, the lowest 3 or 4 energy channels for
	 ions and electrons are still being looked at.

MAG    - Normal Operation - MAG is working just fine.
         RTSW data was valid during the July 14-16 event.

SEPICA - SEPICA is presently generating science data on half of Fan 3.
	 Diagnostic tests are in progress to determine the cause of anomalies
	 with several data channels required to produce good science from the
	 other half of Fan 3. The science data within SEPICA will be
	 redirected to a spare portion of instrument memory to test the
	 possibility that the existing memory has been damaged. A procedure to
	 perform this step is in final test, and may be upoaded to the
	 instrument this week. 

         Fan pressures have been stable for approximately eight months.
         Fan 2 is still just below the threshold for operation, and
         Fan 3 is at a completely nominal pressure.
	
SIS    - Normal Operation.

         Because of the large geometry factor of the instrument, SIS count
	 rates were saturated for several days during the July 14 event,
	 rendering the RTSW data invalid for the period.  Detector thresholds
	 were raised in order to reduce the count rates. However, raising
	 these thresholds causes NOAA RTSW data processing software to
	 calculate incorrect fluxes. The thresholds were lowered when particle
	 intensities dropped sufficiently. The SIS team is considering various
	 options for improving the instrument response to events like this in
	 the future. SIS continued to return pulse-height data during the
	 event, and analysis of these data is underway.

SWEPAM - Normal Operation. No changes to instrument operation in recent months.

         July 14 event: Such a large flare produces copious energetic
	 particles at sufficiently high energies that they penetrate the
	 spacecraft and instrument and make spurious counts in the CEM
	 detectors.  The effect of the high background counts was to cause a
	 breakdown in the SWEPAM algorithm which chooses the energy range to
	 measure.  Because of the high counts, the instrument always measured
	 the lowest possible energy range (~250 eV to 1.8 keV).  During the
	 July 14 event, the solar wind speed was sufficiently high that this
	 energy range did not include the main solar wind proton beam (peak
	 seen at energies ranging from 2 to >5 keV).  The instrument was happy
	 and healthy, it just was looking in the wrong place. The SWEPAM RTSW
	 data was not valid for ~36 hours during the July 14 event because of
	 this effect.

	 However, SWEPAM also has a mode which measures the full energy range
	 (250 eV to ~17 keV) once each half hour.  These data do show the
	 solar wind peak, and we should eventually be able to solar solar
	 wind moments from them.
	 

SWICS/SWIMS - Normal Operation.

         SWICS and SWIMS are just fine, with no anomalies whatsoever.  In May
	 of this year the level of the SWICS Post Acceleration Power Supply
	 was increased to about 26.1 kV (from its previous 22.8 kV) and it has
	 operated there without incident since then.  The higher voltage level
	 increases the energy range of SWICS measurements.  Except for
	 extremely high count rates, there were also no anomalies during the
	 solar storm period of July 14-16, 2000.

ULEIS  - Since April 3, 2000 one of the two redundant TOF systems in ULEIS
	 (TOF-1) has not returned reliable data. Therefore the ULEIS team has
	 turned off the high voltage on the TOF-1 system to minimize the risk
	 of high voltage discharge.  The command was executed on June 19,
	 2000.  The ULEIS team has found that the mass resolution from the
	 remaining TOF-2 system is quite good, and isotopes such as 3He and
	 22Ne are still resolved.