Polarized protons have been available for acceleration in the AGS for the high energy physics program since 1984. The polarized H−source, PONI‐1, has routinely supplied a 0.4 Hz, 400 &mgr;sec pulse having a nominal intensity of 40 &mgr;A. Polarization is ∼80% out of the ion source. After PONI‐1 became operational, a program was initiated to develop a more intense source based on a cold ground state atomic beam source, followed by ionization of the polarized H° beam by D−charge exchange. Various phases of this work have been fully reported elsewhere, and only a summary is given here.