A group of physicists from the UCSB high energy physics group are working with physicsists from Italian and other U.S. institutes on the construction of the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) for the BABAR experiment.  The picture below shows one half of the BABAR SVT, which consists of five layers of silicon detectors.  The inner three layers, assembled at UCSB, are configured as  a conventional vertex detector; the outer two layers, delivered by Pisa, have a distinctive arch shape.  The completed SVT is here being transferred to a model of the interaction region built at LBL.  The bottom picture shows the full SVT mounted on the IR model, cabled up and ready for a complete system and cosmic ray test.  After those tests the SVT will be shipped to SLAC for assembly on the PEP-II beam pipe in preparation for installation of BABAR.