INTERSERVICE COORDINATION COMMITTEE FOR AIRBORNE PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT - WRIGHT AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER - 5 MAY 1959

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: May 19, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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"Malmo roam NO. 04
Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Director, PIC (a
DATE: 19 May 1959
FROM : Special Assistant to the Director, PIC
SUBJECT: Interservice Coordination Committee for Airborne Photographic
Equipment - Wright Air Development Center - 5 May 1959
1. Colonel A. L. Wallace, Jr., Chief, ARL at WADC, opened
the meeting with a proposal for more cooperation and a request
for greater energies to be spent in the Interservice R&D effort.
He stated that the Air Force has three wings of RB-66's now deployed
and one in the states; these are to be phased-out in 1962, and no
new vehicle has as yet been discovered for replacement. The Colonel
further urged the interservice use of the Wright-Patterson Labs
where high altitude environments can be duplicated for developing
taking systems. Captain Kiem of the United States Navy concurred
with Colonel Wallace in a brief rebuttal speech.
2. Lt. Colonel Norman Gray of the Combat Surveillance Agency
gave "The Army's Plans until 1970." The Army is placing a lot of
faith in Project MICHIGAN and is waiting for a report on recommen-
dations as to what PI gear to purchase.
3.
to spend in 1960; i. e.:
Mr. Castellini of Fort Monmouth next gave what the Army plans
(a) $50,000 - Photo-polymerization - Ansco.
(b) $150,000 -
(c) $50,000 -
(d) $1,000,000
(e) $300,000 -
(f) $50,000 -
Experimental panoramic Camera using stationary
optics - Old Delft.
Contrast Control during taking process -
using various slit widths - Fort Monmouth.
- PI equipment as recommended by Project
MICHIGAN.
70mm long focal length camera for ground
use with Automatic Processing - Polaroid.
Phosphor printer similar to Goetz - Fort
Monmouth.
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SUBJECT: Interservice Committee Meeting - Wright Patterson
4. Captain Reed, USAF of AR1C, gave the Air Force budget of
those items that the Air Force allowed him to disclose.
(a) Project No. 6272 - $600,000 - Photo materials, processors,
and techniques which will give a high quantum yield
and will remain nuclear radiaAon resistant.
(b) ProL!,:t No. 6170 - $200,000 - Light Amplification,
solid state approach.
(c) Project No. 6175 - $100,000 - Reconnaissance electro-
photography.
(q) Project No. 6171 - Not as yet fundea - P'oto Receptors,
large single crystals.
(e) Project No. 6273 - $350,000 - Optical Technology.
(0 Project No. 62720 - $100,000 - Defraction Limited
Lenses.
$103,000 - Service test of two
of above lenses - 300 lines/mm.
(g) Project No. 62722 - $50,000 - Night Photo Optics
(h) $57,000 to buy a radiation resistant
lens of a long focal length.
Project No. 6721 $50,000 - 120? super wide angle lens.
Project No. 6220 - $1,981,000 - Aerial Photo Reconnaissance
Techniques.
(i)
(j)
. 1. Task No. 62524 - $100,000 -
photography.
2. Task No. 62799 - $260,000 -
technique-.
3. Task No. 52794 - $225,000 -
on Aerial Reconnaissance.
4. Task No. 62481 - $631,000 -
Dynamic Analyzer.
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Night Ambient Light
Extremely high altitude
Hypersonic Flight Effects
Satellite Photography
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1445-1455 Coffee break
1455-1525 . Report on Resolution and Test Ranges by Ad Hoc Committee
1525-1600 Discussion
WEDNESDAY 6 NAY 1959
0830-1015 Recording Cameras
1015-1025 COffee Break
1025-1115 Strike, Bomb Damege Cameras
1115-1200 Mapping and Charting Camera Revisions and Discussion
1200-1300 Lunch - Hilltop Cafeteria
1300-1400 Camera Controls - Discussion Concerning Revision of DOD Guide
1400-1445 Camera Mounts
1445-1455 Coffee Break
1455-1530 General Discussion on Items Covered
1530-1600 Summation - Establish Time and Place of Next Meeting, Discussion
of Items for Agenda.
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SUBJECT: Interservice Committee Meeting - Wcight Patterson
5. Task No. 62799 - $611,000- Catadioptric Lenses -
Large Aperture Lens for UV detection 2000 to
4000 Angstrom range for 70mm film.
(k) Project No. 6263 - $600,000 - Electronic Photographic
Reconnaissance.
1. Task No. 62766 - $300,000 - Development of a TV
photo tape sensor 70mm at 60 megacycles with a
resolution of 100 1/mm. No cathode ray tube -
RCA.
2. Task No. 62178 - $300,000 - Advanced reconnaissance
mount techniques.
(1) Project No. 6231 - Task No. 62499 - $180,000 - In Flight
Ultra-Rapid Processor - Ansco.
5. CDR O'Reilly of BuAER PH gave the Navy's Budget.
(a) CA 03501 - $148,000 - Miniature firing error camera.
(b) TO 13501 - $75,000 -Single Panoramic Camera 12" 70mm
for F8U-1P - ITEK.
(c) CA 03501 - $150,000 - Photo Scanning Transmission
System - Chance Vought.
(d) 1. TO 13501 - $30,000 - PI Key"Coke, Iron, and Steel
PIC."
2. $35,000 - PI Key, "Exotic Fuels and Rare Metals."
3. $35,000 - Viewer for Comparative Analysis of Sensor
Records.
4. $35,000 - Viewer for Panoramic Photography.
5. $40,000 - Master Terrain Model System.
TO 13401 - $120,000 - Rocket and Satellite Photo Systems
Project HUGO.
AS 40502 - Day and Night Anti Submarine photo system.
CA 03501 - $35,000 - Radar Prediction and Validity Systems.
$14,000 - Unique Radar prediction techniques.
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SUBJECT: Interservice Committee - Wright Patterson
(i)
(1)
$10,000 - PI Study on Human Factors and PI. - Tufts.
10 13401 - $35,000 - Maximum utilization of extremely
small scale photography.
TO 13501 - $100,000 - Zerographic Plate Research.
6. Major Schatzley of RA1C spoke on Rome's projects.
a. Rome is working on the integration of data from individual
sensors. This is a multianalysis type of work using infrared, radar,
photography and any other sensors. They have a milk run set up from
Buffalo to Boston. Through the statistical treatment of data, they
are able to show trends. This seems to be similar to the Dr. Heidelauf-
Autometric proposal.
b. Aereo Services is performing a study for Rome on "Ways
to Approach Small-scale Photography."
c. Basic Sbudy of Inter-Planetary Surveys.
d. Ohio State is performing a study on oblique mensuration
and will come up with a design for an oblique slide rule.
e. A rear projection viewer that will take 35mm to 9 x 9
is now being funded called the AR 21.
f. Rome is working on an automatic recognition device to
scan aerial photography.
g. Ohio State is working on scanning techniques - namely a
moving spot of light to draw the eye.
h. Rome is not working on group interpretation until the
problems for the individual have been licked.
i. Rome is performing a study on a space coordinate system.
They have not as yet decided whether it should be solar centered,
earth centered or galaxy centered.
7. Resolution Targets were discussed. Those now existing are:
Air Force: 2 at Elgin
6 at Wright Patterson
1 at Edwards
Navy: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Army: Building a set in New Jersey.
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PLACE:
AGENDA
for
"THIRD INTERSERVICE CONFERENCE RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT AIRBORNE PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT"
Wright Air Development Center
Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory, Display Room, Building 125
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
DATE: 5 - 6 Wy 1959
CHAIRMAN: Mr. E. B. Woodford, Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory. W.A.D.C.
(Presentations will normally be in the following order)
U. S. Army Signal Corps
U. S. Air Force
U. S. Navy
TUESDAY 5 MAY 1959
0400-0905 Call to Order
Introduction of Colonel A. Lm Wallace, Jr.
Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory
Wright Air Development Center
by Mt. E. B. Woodford
0905-0920 Welcome Address by Colonel Wallace
0420-0930 Opening Remarks by Mr. E. B. Woodford
0930-1015 Presentation of the R and D Budget for FY-60 by each Service and
Presentation by Army of their Data Link -Program
1015-1025 Coffee Break
1025-1200 Continue R and D Budget Presentations and Discussion
1200-1300 Lunch - Hilltop Cafeteria
1300-1400 Tour of Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory
Photographic Analysis Facility
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SUBJECT: Interservice Committee Meeting - Wright Patterson
8. The Air Force demonstrated its prototype Dynamic Analyzer
Machine for Aerial Reconnaissance Systems. It will :
a. Pinpoint cause of loss of resolution.
b. Cut flight tests 60 - 80 percent. A newer, more
sophisticated machine will be completed in February 1961. Program
time is now available on the existing machine.
WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 1959
1. It was decided unanimously that 5 inch film will continue
to be unperforated.
2. The Air Force is attempting to standardize resolution
measurements on cathode ray tubes - probably lines/mm.
3. The Army has been cleared by the FCC to test the transmission
of photbs,drone to ground,at 2250 megacycles on the Fort Huachuca
drone firing range.
4. The Army, Navy, and Air Force representatives then presented
Enclosures 3, 4, and 5 respectively and discussed the various pieces
of hardware. It is to be noted that APEL is working with a catadioptric
lens.
5. The next meeting will be held at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey,
in the vicinity of 20 or 21 October to be announced later by Mr.
Castellini. The agenda will contain camera mounts, lenses (both
domestic and foreign), control systems, and data recording.
THURSDAY, 7 May 1959
1. The Atomic reactor which is about 75 percent completed was
visited at Wright Patterson. It will have the capability of taking
an experiment 5' x 7' x 9' weighing 10,000 pounds.
2. The rest of the laboratory facilities were visited during
the day, and the following items of note were seen and discussed:
a. Moonlight photography.
b. Single large silver bromide crystals. (Enclosure 6)
c. Photographic recording mediums other than silver.
d. Internal vibrations and their effects on the performance
of aerial photography. Ensure 7)
Enclosures
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