We need to evaluate whether or not the ngVLA Reference Design can reach
the Key Science Goals (KSGs) in the arrays first decade. Our approach is
to build an ngVLA Reference Observing Program (ROP) and evaluate its
viability. To this end, we have systematically quantified the technical
and observing needs of the KSGs driving use cases that were identified in
the ngVLA Science Requirements. We have also assembled the ancillary
information needed to evaluate the ROP. In this talk we describe these
efforts and present a preliminary evaluation of the viability of the ROP.
We emphasize that this exercise is notional and intended only to gauge if
the ngVLA Reference Design can do what the community forecasts will be the
arrays highest priority science.