1 INTRODUCTION  
1.1 Survey Motivation  
1.2 Early Survey Science Papers  
1.3 Historical Background  

2 OBSERVATIONS AND SURVEY STRATEGY  
2.1 Calibration and Reddening Correction  
2.2 Survey Footprint Characteristics  
2.3 Astrometry with BDBS and Gaia  

3 EARLY RESULTS CONCERNING THE STELLAR POPULATION  
3.1 The Bulge Population  
3.2 Is There a Young, Massive Population in the Bulge?  
3.3 A Peculiar Red Clump: Long Bar Signature, or Disk Feature?  
3.4 Mapping the Blue Horizontal Branch  

4 CANDIDATE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS FROM THE VVV SURVEY  

5 CONCLUSIONS