Compress a working report into an executive brief

Compress this report into an executive brief.

Produce three parts:
1. The brief — under 200 words. Structure: the decision needed / the two or three facts that bear on it / the recommendation.
2. Backup — the detail you cut, grouped by the question it would answer. This is what I bring up if asked.
3. Questions — the three questions an executive is most likely to ask, and where in the backup the answer sits.

Rules for what survives into part 1:
- Keep it only if it changes the decision. Interesting is not a reason.
- Numbers survive; the method behind them goes to backup.
- *Do not soften bad news in compression.* If the source says something is failing, the brief says it too.
- Never add a conclusion the source does not support.