The project team members have a long history of instrument building for large ground- and space-based telescopes. Veilleux, Vogel, and Bland-Hawthorn have worked together successfully for more than two decades, most recently on the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade telescope instrument, MMTF, funded by NSF (Veilleux et al. 2010). Bland-Hawthorn is one of the world's leading instrument builders and initiated the photonic spectrograph effort described here. Roy has done pioneering work on low-noise IR/optical detectors. Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics, leads the science team for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the replacement to HST. Gehrels, Chief of the Astroparticle Physics Lab, is highly experienced in space-based instrumentation. Moseley builds instruments from the X-ray to the far-IR; he is winner of the AAS Weber prize for these efforts. Kutyrev specializes on building instruments for the optical and near-infrared.