DEAR GEORGE:

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• Publication Date: April 19, 1998
• Content Type: LETTER

17 January 1956
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The accompanying proposals are recommendations bringing the
spares and support equipment programs for Systems 1, 3, and 4 up-to-
date.
The FAK List for Systems 1 and 3 was modified, and the modifica-
tions as set forth in our letter dated 28 November 1956, CMCC Doc. No.
151X5. 326, were accepted by you. This results in an additional cost
for spare parts of $1, 834. 00 per FAK List, or a total of $5, 502. 00 for
project support requirements. These modifications have not yet been
incorporated in the SAC Fly-Away Kit Lists, but the changes will
probably be relatively small. No adjustment has yet been made in the
depot spares requirements, but there is a general feeling that with the
readjustment of quantities in the FAK Lists no additional material will
be required for depot spares. Both the costs of these changes to the
FAK Lists and also those changes which were proposed in our letter
dated 18 May 1956, CMCC Doc. No. 151X5. 107, subsequently approved
by you and put into effect, need to be incorporated in the contract.
Exhibit A lists certain additions, deletions, and corrections to be
made to the System 1 and 3 SLOE. These are principally changes to
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will be required for the SAC SLOE List, but these have not yet been pre-
pared.
No proposal has previously been submitted for spares for the data-
reduction equipment. The accompanying proposal outlines a spares
program for the five racks on which development is complete. Spares
have been planned on a per-rack basis since it is rather difficult to
determine the exact distribution of equipment in order to plan spares on
a per-site basis. We believe these spares proposals are on the minimum
side but should provide reasonable coverage for those items most likely
to fail. The spares costs are separately tabulated for both you and SAC.
Depot spares were determined at twice per system requirements. While
you may wish to decide on somewhat different quantities of these spares,
we would urge an early decision and authorization to purchase so that
ddt s need to be ixlcorpora e in ges
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spares may be packaged and available for shipment along with the data-
reduction equipment. We have already procured and shipped the equiva-
lent of about two (2) of these recommended lists with the data-reduction
equipment already shipped.
We estimate the spares cost per rack for the D and E racks at
$2, 000. 00, and the depot spares cost at $3, 000. 00. We would appreciate
contract funding of these estimated amounts so that procurement of known
requirements could be initiated in time for delivery along with completed
equipment.
In addition to the spares requirement per rack, it is necessary to
furnish a set of patch cables to make necessary interconnections for system
test and checkout. A proposal for the fabrication of these patch cables is
While it is still too early to accurately determine the spares require-
ments for the System 4 program, we have made some estimates of
expected needs and recommend that an estimated amount of $20, 000 per
operating site be funded in the contract so that spares procurement and
fabrication may proceed along with procurement and production for the
system.
Exhibit B is a preliminary list of proposed commercial test equipment
for use in preflight and shop testing of System 4 and its component parts.
A number of these items will later be used as a part of the preflight test
set along with contractor manufactured equipment. Those items which
will be used with the preflight test set are separately marked. The
estimated cost per list of this commercial test equipment is $25, 000. 00.
We would suggest that this estimated amount be funded in the contract for
the number of sites from which System 4 equipment will be operated so
that we can procure the equipment in time to deliver it along with systems.
We have already ordered one set of this commercial test equipment to be
used at the Ranch for flight tests of the prototype System 4.
Exhibit C is a preliminary estimate of System 4 spares and support
equipment needs for both the project and SAC. These estimates are based
on the assumption that both you and SAC will be operating from two (2)
locations each. We suggest that these estimated dollar amounts be funded
in the contract.
Enclosures:
Copies 1-3 of 4 of the
following documents:
Sincerely,
CMCC
1132X5.78
CMCC 1132X5.82
CMCC
1131X5.83
CMCC 1134X5.26
CMCC
1132X5.80
CMCC 1132X5.79
CMCC
1134X5.25
CMCC 1132X5. 81
CMCC
1131X5.84
CMCC 1132X5. 87
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