  The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an
ultra-low background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge detector array to search for
neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. In view of the next generation of
tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay searches that will probe
the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the
Demonstrator is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at
or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value
at 2039 keV. The current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans
for its completion.
