DEAR ROY:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00657R000200230002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 19, 1999
• Content Type: LETTER

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June 28, 1963
Mr.
Ref: Contract AF33(60d)-iO284, Proposed Extension No. 3, dated
May 27, 1963
Dear Roy t
ve reviewed your proposal for the third extension
25X1 of the I roject and as outlined in conversations with you
have the following comments to make.
(1) The general framework or reference in which you (1)
made this proposal is somewhat different from the one which haw e,Cis.
In order to meet the final goals with the 41 +t .
ast cost in time and dollars, I believe that we should direct
our maximum effort to getting an experimental system in the final
airplane and in the air at the earliest date. This procedure will
allow us to prove the system, and investigate the interface en-
gineering details between the radar, the motion compensation sys-
tem, and the environment. Upon completion of this phase we should
have pictures of reasonable quality taken from nominal altitude,
and we should know which parameters are limiting our performance.
This would lead us to the next steps to improve on the limiting
features while refining or copying other components to meet mili-
tary or operational specifications. It is anticipated that de-
velopment engineering will actually go on in the final airplane
installation during the period of flight test while the interface
problems are being solved. I believe that by getting pictures,
that are not in the strict sense operational, but that are made
by using all the final components in a single system, we will dis-
cover the major problems earlier and we will get a solution sooneri
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(2) The second comment has to do with the overall
performance of the system. I believe that the rf r Lance pre-
dicted in the status review last January by is both pod- 25X1
Bible and acceptable. I would like you to use this performance
as your criterion and to use your judgment to determine when
each of the components of the radar system are developed to a
stage where it is reasonable to assemble them in the final air-
plane. Under this philosophy I should not expect to get ade-
quate maps during the first flights, but I would expect to get
useful information as to the performance of the various com-
ponents and their interaction on each other.
I believe more measurements must be made on the system
and on the individual components, and these measurements must be
made to a tolerance consistent with expected performance. With
this in mind, the flight test must be designed to obtain the maxi-
mum information on component and system performance rather than
relying primarily on the output film from the recorder. However,
this evaluation program does not excuse us in any way from getting
an acceptable map at the earliest possible date.
3) My third comment has to do with the number of
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equipments that you have contracted to deliver. There now ex
a requirement for three equipments, a spare recorder and other
spares. Some or all of these three equipments exist in one state
of development or another. In the next few months it is my de-
Every effort should be made to insure that it will work in the
final airplane, that it Is self-compatible, and that it has maxi-
mum reliability. I recognize that spares for the vari.us compo-
nents are very useful if not essential. However, I do not see
any worthwhile end in creating three identical developmental
systems. When number one gets on the air and proves Itself, it
will be time enough to retrofit the other systems if that Is
what seems best to us at that time. Therefore, your proposal
should be directed toward getting number one an the air in the
final airplane at the earliest time. All other work not directly
related to this is secondary.
(k) My fourth comment is about coats. I think your
last proposal was for expensive for the wc,rk outlined. Specifi-
cally, the costs for modifying the 7 diver including a new pre-
amp, a new local oscillator, a new strip and range marks in 25X1
the video amount to $228,000. :~xcep for the range zr [arks these
new circuits have already been design developed on previous
contracts. The fee you add on to the Recorder appears to b125X1
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$43,000 for which you will supply a CRT and a power supply. Ho
tion, Item #7, and the power supply will either come from
ever, the CRT is to be purchased under the Recorder Design
the W development under Item #k. Finally, the cost of
proposal should address itself to getting one experimental .AK-93
radar with motion compensation equipment installed in the final
airplane and flight tested for at least three months.
previous suppliers.
(5) My fifth and final comment is on a request for a
new proposal. In view of the above comments I am asking ou to
prepare a new proposal with minimum technical:._4
ing a power supply is five times the cost to either of the two
Very truly yours,
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