RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY September 1965

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02820A001100050044-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: September 30, 1965
• Content Type: PERRPT

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September 1965
1. Primarily as a result of the somewhat remote location of the
I~P R&D Laboratory, newly assigned personnel tend to lose sight of
the fact that they are a part of the overall Agency organization.
As one method of alleviating this situation, a series of familiar-
ization tours was arranged for the ten newest engineers and tech-
nicians assigned to the Laboratory. These tours which were com-
pleted the last week in September included:
Langley, SP/CEN, the TSD Laboratory and a comprehensive briefing
of OC-E activities outside the R&D field.
2. During the spring of 1964 a new machine tool was installed in
the Mechanical Fabrication area of the Laboratory. This device,
a tape-controlled milling machine, cost approximately $20,000.
Due to the speed with which the tape-controlled machine cycles
from operation to operation and the lower level of skill required
in operating manpower, the tape-controlled milling machine has
proven to be quite a labor-saving device. The man-hour savings
realized from the use of this machine, as compared to the con-
ventional milling machine, was sufficient during the first year
of operation (FY-65) to repay completely its basic cost. As a
result of an increased production schedule commencing during the
first weeks of the Fiscal Year 1966, operation of the hydropoint
tape-controlled milling machine was placed on a 56-hour week
schedule. During the first 13 weeks of FY-66 it has been in
operation 728 Yours. The calculated time to produce the equiv-
alent work on a conventional machine would have been 2,694 hours.
The tape-controlled machine, therefore, has been responsible for
savings of 1966 man-hours during this first quarter of FY-66.
Allowing for a two-grade difference in the operating skill required
and 150% overhead on labor, this saving amounts to over $18,000.00.
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1. Two CRASH QRC-type programs were initiated and completed at
the laboratory during this reporting period. The first, the
fabrication of a 6-element Yagi antenna operating on 10 Mc
and capable of being transported in a mailing tube 36" long
and 3" in diameter. This antenna was fabricated from design
information furnished by the Systems Engineering Branch. It
was gamma-matched to a 50-ohm coaxial transmission line pro-
viding a gain of 9 db and an E-plane beam width of 50 degrees.
The second program required the modification of 13 General
Electric mobile transceivers for operation with a noise-
cancelling type headset and boom microphone rather than con-
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Electric system was modified for use with a Motorola headset
stocked in the warehouse and, after testing, the 13 units were
supplied with these headsets along with the necessary modifi-
cations for proper operation.
2. The RS-72 project was established to provide a waterproof case
within which a GE Porta-Mobil transceiver might be installed
with only the very minimum of modification. This system is
intended to provide for communications from small boats or
rubber rafts with a completely self-contained waterproof pack-
age. The cases will be supplied as a stock item and, when
required, may be requisitioned along with conventional Porta-
I bil equipment. The design has been completed and the proto-
type will be delivered early next month for operational evalu-
ation.
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III. ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL
1. Ten evaluations were published and distributed during September.
Five evaluations were completed. and the reports written. These
are in process of being published and distributed. Twelve evalu-
ations are presently in the testing phase.
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1. During tests by a foreign sister service, the KE-8D keyer was
discovered to have a minor malfunction which resulted in latch-
up of the keying circuitry due to DC transits on the power supply.
During this reporting period, 138 KE-8D keyers were modified by
the R&D Laboratory to correct this defect.
2. Equipment delivered to the warehouse for s
10 RT-48A transistorized 6- to 8-watt Agen
in the 4- to 16-megacycle range and 125 AU
designed to provide for charging the BS-4+8
110 V AC mains.
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ck this month included
transmitters operating
B charging cords
attery supply from
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3. Twelve additional fabrication projects are presently receiving
support from the laboratory. These projects will result in the
delivery to the warehouse of over 2,500 pieces of equipment with
a combined value of better than $500,000 during the last three
months of this calendar year.
4. The value of equipment delivered to the warehouse for stock
this month amounted to $61500-00-
V. AMUNISTRATIVE
TDY
N. A .
TRANSFERS
N. A.
PCs
N. A.
EOD
N. A.
RESIGNATIONS
N. A.
EFFECTIVE PROMOTIONS
N. A.
TRAINING
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