  Modernizing the Fermilab accelerator control system is essential to future
operations of the laboratory's accelerator complex. The existing control system
has evolved over four decades and uses hardware that is no longer available and
software that uses obsolete frameworks. The Accelerator Controls Operations
Research Network (ACORN) Project will modernize the control system and replace
end-of-life power supplies to enable future accelerator complex operations with
megawatt particle beams. An overview of the ACORN Project and a summary of
recent research and development activities will be presented.
