MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR JULY, 1964.

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 12, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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NFIC/P&DS-148/64
12 August 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant for Administration
SUBJECT: Monthly Activity Report for July, 1964.
GENERAL STAFF OCCURRENCES:
Summer vacations continue to cut heavily intoeailable manpower.
However, planned developmental activities are prociding at very nearly
the pace anticipated.
was interviewed for the position
of Deputy Assistant for Plans and Development, but it was determined
that his experience was not relevant to the work of the Staff. DIA
has nominated another candidate for the job and an interview is being
arranged.
An apparent impasse was reached between NPIC and GSA regarding
space on the first floor of Building 213 for the P&DS equipment test and
evaluation room and maintenance area. The Eastman Kodak stereo
projection viewer and the Multiple Image Correlator have been delivered
and are being held in their shipping crates awaiting the availability of
suitable space for evaluation. Shipment of several other significant
prototype items of equipment is imminent and the evaluation of these will
also have to await properly prepared space.
A patent application in favor of the Government was submitted by
to protect a technique for making phase
gratings, which they perfected in the Exploratory Developmental
Laboratory. Their work in this area already has aroused the interest
of several of our contractors and has the potential of producing
significant savings to the Center in its developmental programs.
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The NPIC Photo Interpreter Performance program is rapidly progressing.
Arrangements have now been completed for obtaining the required aerial
photography. It is expected that samples will be available shortly for
the preliminary experimental evaluations. The target dates for completion
of the first two phases (9" to 36" and 3' to 10' ground resolution) are
now established as October 15 and December 15, 1964.
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The first meeting of the Image Quality Evaluation Program
Committee was held at NPIC 13-15 July.
The Assistant for Plans and Developments participated extensively
during the month in discussions relating to proposed collection programs.
USAF Air Weather Service, reported on dutr 50X1
and was assigned to the Exploratory Development Laboratory. 50X1
completed his tour with the Development Branch 50X1
and departed for his next assignment.
had a set-back in his illness and was returned to the 50X1
hospital. He made a rapid recovery, however, and is now recuperating
at his summer place in Pennsylvania. He expects to report back to duty
in September.
DEVELOPMENT BRANCH
During July the budgets for FY-65 and FY-66 and the Contract
Procurement Schedule for FY-65 were compiled. At this time there are
63 specific development projects scheduled for contract in FY-65 at
a cost of The last items are scheduled to
be under contract'loy March 1965. This schedule is intended to put the
Center in a competitive position for additional funds at the end of
the fiscal year if any are available.
Work on new major development contracts was set into motion.
Following the administrative settlement of contracts that was
accomplished in June, monitors visited the corresponding facilities or
met with company representatives in Washington to verify technical
guidelines and initiate the work.
Some major equipment was delivered during the month. The Roll
Film Rear-Projection Stereo Viewer developed by Eastman Kodak Company
was delivered on 13 July, and the Stereo-Chip Comparator developed
by OPTOmechanisms was delivered on 22 July.
Project status accounting records were brought up-to-date and
considerable work was accomplished in the development of new procedures
to provide timely status information on all projects.
Listed below are statistics relevant to branch operations during
July:
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Project Status Initiated In Work Completed Cancelled
Major (more than 4o man hrs) 6 119 3 1
Minor (less than 40 man hrs) 3 13 3
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Research and Development Objectives
In Work
0
Completed
0
Proposal Status
Received
2
In Work
18
Rejected
2
Accepted
0
Project Approval Requests
In Work 0
Completed 0
Contract Status
Number
Pending Obligations
5
Contracted this Months
0
Contracted this FY-65
0
Completed this Month
0
Current Total Contracts
72
Dollar Value
Conferences for the month were held to a minimum
80 man hours. Following are listed the trips undertaken by Development
Branch personnel during the month:
and involved only
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1 July - visited Offutt Air Force Base to search 50X1
Air Force photography and select domestic target coverage for use
under the Human Factors - Perkin Elmer Contract "Research in
Photo Interpreter Performance".
7 July -
visited OPTOmechanisms in 50X1
Plainview, New York, to monitor progress on the Model 552 Point
Transfer Device and four High-Precision Stereo Viewers.
8-10 July - attended the "Automatic
Target Recognition conference at Ohio State University.
13 July - visited Diffraction
Limited in Bedford, Mass., to. confer with them and Mark Systems
representatives regarding the development and construction of
the Virtual Image Viewer.
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13-24 July - attended
the University of Rochester Seminar on the "Fundamentals of
Optical Design and Systems Evaluation".
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15 July - visited Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, 50X1
New York, to monitor contracts on the Variable-Magnification
Tracing Projector, Panoramic Stereo Viewer, and the production
model of the High-Power Stereo Viewer.
17-25 July - visited Nuclear Research Instruments 50X1
in Berkley, California, for maintenance training on the Variable-
Width Film Reader and the Varyscan Viewer. On the 24th he visited
Computer Measurement Company in Sylmar, California, for maintenance
training on their computer read-out systdp. f,
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20-23 July - visited Texas 50X1
Instruments in Dallas, Texas, to review the contract for the
collection of multi-sensor and ground truth data. On the 22nd
they visited Vicksburg, Miss., to investigate the U. S. Army
Waterways Experiment Station work in acquiring basic data
pertaining to special sensors.
PLANS BRANCH
completed the staff study concerning the Technical 50X1
Deve opmen ommittee and a proposed Joint Development Committee.
The last of the comments on the P&DS study "Advanced Planning
Concept for Technical Development" were received and forwarded to the
Executive Director.
began efforts on a redesigned report on the Technical 50X1
Development Program which will replace the narrative summary style
of former reports.
met with Lt. Col. Anderson and Major Wright concerning 50X1
the progress of the Air Force color filteration project HISPEC.
Imagery was obtained for use in the Human Factors project.50X1
Project HISPEC has slowea aown consiaerably due to the interference of
building construction at RADC.
A Special Sensor Catalogue was started which will be a loose-leaf
reference containing information on all efforts concerned with image-
forming special sensors and multi-sensors. The catalogue will be
available to appropriate EPIC personnel and will provide a ready-reference
on latest developments.
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After coordination with
TID and informally
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forwarded to Eastman Kodak a
proposed format for titling film from
the 115-A System. The propos 1 is considered feasible, and a formal
request will be forwarded to
with EK.
who is the contract monitor
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visited Itek/Alexandria to discuss further
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the Itek/NPIC project for the
exploitation of side-looking radar
materials. The Itek facility was examined
to provide support.
to determine its ability
visited Texas
Instruments, Inc., Dallas,
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Texas, where they reviewed the progress being made on the project on
sequential multi-sensor day-night target coverage. Considerable
information also was gathered on other activities that might be of
interest to NPIC. They then visited the U. S. Army Corps. of Engineers
Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Miss:, where they became
familiar with projects concerning the determination of soil composition
and soil trafficability through the use of remote sensors. The results
could have considerable importance in determining the values of radar,
IR, gamma radiation, etc., to the P. I.
Activities concerning the coordination of new systems have
increased so significantly that it is difficult for a branch of only
two people to keep up with the work.
EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY BRANCH
The Image Quality Evaluation Program began during the month.
This is a continuation of the Drell Committee and is sponsored by NPIC.
The current committee is composed of eleven representatives from
industry and Government. The initial meetings were held at NPIC 13-15
July and were chaired by This is the first of a series of
such meetings, in a year's continuing investigation which has as its
goal the objective measurement of image quality from mission materials.
A breadboard demonstration of the Virtual Image Viewer was set
up in the laboratory. This viewer allows direct viewing of an image
while eliminating the need for a conventional screen. The breadboard
will serve to introduce the operating principles to those not familiar
with them and should improve understanding of such non-standard optical
systems.
Work continued on the adjacency effect study. Although
was away on annual leave most of the month he completed the draft of
his preliminary report and began considering the design and fabrication
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of the requisite experimental equipment. has designed
several pieces of equipment for use in this study such as those needed
for basic immersion and controlled-agitation implementation.
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completed his report on the heating problem associated 50X1
with the Richardson Viewers. A visitor to the center this month,
Captain Louis Monti, USAF, expressed an interest in this work as his
detachment in Japan has experienced the same problem with their viewers.
continued their work on photographic
phase gratings. Investigations were made to determine the fundamental
physical properties of these gratings, to measure controlling parameters,
and to predict grating behavior under coherent illumination. A
suggestion was submitted to the Awards Committee which proposed that the
laboratory produce crossed phase gratings for use in the Virtual Image
Viewer. The breadboard model previously described uses an experimental
version of such a grating. A report is currently in preparation which
will culminate these studies. It is expected that this report will be
issued by the end of August or the middle of September.
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visited 50X1
EPIC this month for consultation with He was given excellent 50X1
briefings by PAG and TID on matters relating to their work. Technical
subjects pertinent to the EDL Branch efforts were discussed from which
two tasks emerged and were assigned to Technical Operations under the
current contract they hold with P&DS. One of these was to prepare a
critique of edge-trace methods for ascertaining system transfer functions.
The other was to consider the formulation of a mathematical description
peculiar to asymmetrical spread functions to aid in understanding the
effects such functions have on the over-all system transfer function.
Both of these tasks are in support of the Image Quality Evaluation
Program and will be highly useful to the committee members.
spent the period 27-30 July in Rochester, New York, 50X1
attending a course in microdensitometry at Eastman Kodak, under PAR 225
of the AL-14 contract.
joined the Plans and Development
staff this month and was assigned o the EDL Branch. is
a specialist in atmospherics and can be expected to contribute greatly
to the branch!s progress in optical and shotographic investigations.
recently returned from where he received a PhD
from
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