PROJECT APPROVAL REQUEST FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TWO GROUPS OF THREE PROTOTYPES LIGHT-TABLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A001400030005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 28, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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FOR; Assistant for Plans and Development
Executive Officer, Plans and Development Staff
Chief,. Development Branch
Project Approval Request for the Development of Two
Groups Of Three Prototypes. Lit-Tables
The Assistant for MministratjQn"s m -A .-
f dated 4% July
964
1p ( covering the subject PAR) questions the logic of a parallel
development with and re4uest that the subject be dis-
2 The following facts and background are set down for y
itfo ti
on irt relation to the requested discussion
The light table is one of three items the P.I.
uses most, the other two being the tube magnifier
en4 the loan microscope. The present light tables
ode oats.
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b. The proposed light tables are the result of an
intense personal research effort into what the opera.-
t$ 1 people waant.
c. It should be understood that from the-. very beginning
we had hoped to be able to let this contract with more
than one manufacturer -- the e
i
qu
pment is sir important
STATINTL it dictates this, A second contractor would expand our
list Of contractors and (in this case-) vendors and help
us break the monopoly (and resul?ti.na lack of cooperation)
ixteen companies were solicited for bids
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merrily because of unrealiatic bid times {
mD iaed by Cit _ rw1,r i,,.ee eo nies bid r
unacceptable; if the
had to be ti,
DECLASS REVIEW BY NIMA / DoD
^proposa L we 8
lei effort, it
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e. it rust be understood that.
?l you can not put
own in a PAR every item or considextion that
goes into our decision: making Process. Neither
Is it Possible to anticipate all the questions
Persons might conceivably ask - PAR's would be-
cane volumes.
J I H I IN I L f~. It was necessary t, emphasize the
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