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1.On September 7, 19G6 I went to the offices of !for a general project review and contract monitoring exercise.

2.. A number of subjects were discussed in the office, including the following:

A. Progress made to date on the pro-. ject which includes an appraisal of the an animal I in the opinion of the we are most likely to be able to achieve a fairly quick payoff. As a result of the discussions, several suggestions were made for some additional work. i

1 After considerable discussion on a number of alternative procedures it was decided that because a number of questions have come up since this project was initiated we would proceed to request an extension of time. This extension, at no additional cost to the Governmens, would bring about completion of this task order, and at the same time would spell out in some detail several changes in scope and content of the task order to be pursued during the period of extension requested. Paperwork is now being prepared on this item and should be in my hands shortiy for transmission to 1 and other interested parties. This request for an extension of time in no way reflects that the contractor has failed to perform the task which he was assigned under the terms of the original technical proposal. It merely reflects that we were unable to anticipate the many avenues of investigation which presented themselves, mainly because of the nature of the investigations and our inability to predict the probable outcome with any confidence.

B. A short review of progress to date with the

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was presented. The small i
has been fabricated and is being tested at the present time.
They are beginning to do some dcsign work on a suitable imechanism 1

.C.. The writer and principal investigators, Mr. \paid a short visit

to the laboratory of Dr.
where, on the subcontract basis, lhas asked Dr. \to look at the visual capabilities and acuities of 1

1 The results Dr. lis reporting and which I saw in action are quite surprising.\_ and it now appears that the

i If further experimentation proves this to be the case, we have the possibility for a fairly'short range

Dr. lis proceeding to wrap up this phase of the work. and shortly will evaluate the data and come forward with a recommendation concerning our proceeding to look at the feasibility of using an

3. On the afternoon of the seventh the entire party, consisting of i and the writer, proceeded to la distance of about 120 miles, by privately owned automobilé to observe simple idemonstrations. After arriving ! we went to the home of who has been doing some work for jon consulting contracts. Here we witnessed a demonstration of the

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4. The following day we took the equipment and installed

In my opinion, the tests, as far as we were able to carry them, were eminently successful and highly satisfactory..

5. It has been determined, therefore, in a subsequent conference with the contractor and his technical personnel that the component of the entire system will now be breadboarded and integrated to the system for further field tests. If the lcomponents function as well as the icomponents in this system, we believe we have a very éxcellent \_system available

1 We anticipate that the development and breadboardingof icomponents will require probably about three months.If we run into any unsuspected difficulties and the time stretches out, we will probably field test again in the ias soon as

I otherwise, if we get the system ready for field testing

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