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

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CIA-RDP78B04747A001400030005-9
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December 28, 2016
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April 18, 2001
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Publication Date: 
July 28, 1964
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MF
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Approved For Release 2001/05/11 ,CIA-RDP78B04747A001400030005-9 STATINTL 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. STATINTL 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 STATINTL STATINTL STATINTL STATINTL 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 Approved For Release 2001/05/11 : CIA-RDP78BO4747AO01400030005-9 Approved For Release 2001/05/1 11. CIA-RDP78BO4747AO01400030005-9 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 STATINTL PrOPOBE.1,jn the PAR in order to .~?,~ 9- BYertek , a ply per . _ ? ~.,. p r:cz `At'c d; TiG2-s equ1p, X" -- Not three years frl ; t now it is i R & D being ould be f lish to expect any pros- unit, no rr