WEEKLY DIARY ITEMS - LBTI

19 Mar 59 Thru 25 Mar 59 ; fo

8} Sentry Communications System

Letter Contract coverage has been furnished the Kellogg Switch-
board and Supply Company to. link the Sentry program commnications
equipment at Vandenberg AFB with Point Arquello, California facilities.
The major item of this work is the laying of cable between the two sites.
The estimated cost of this procurement is $1,000, 000.00.

(U) 9M 65-1 Facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base

LBTI has received Advance Copy of a Purchase Request for procure-
ment of A-E Services to ac lish design changes (approximately
100,000 man hours) to the 5M 65-1 Guided Missile Assembly Building No. 2 at
Varidenberg Air Force Base. After the work statement has been properly
reviewed, it is anticipated CCN will be issued to Contract AP 04(647)-297
to cover the required changes. .

(0) WS lO7A-1 Communications Associate Contractor

AFEMD Sole Source Justification has been received by LBIT to .
establish Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company as the Associate Contractor
for Communications Systems at all of the operational Atlas launch facilities.
Kellogg is presently on céntract to design, furnish and install the Atlas
Communications Systems at Vandenberg AFB and Warren AFB. It has now been
Proposed to supplement the Warren contract » to specify Kellogg as an Associate
Contractor for planning and engineering (preliminary design) for Warren AFB
and all future Atlas sites. As start dates approach for furnishing and ,
installing the hardware at follow-on bases, it is intended to cover each
successive base under a separate contract with Kellogg. .

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WEEKLY DIARY ITEMS - LBEP
19 Mar 59 Thru 25 Mar 59

(U) atlas Missile Display System

A conference was held in the office of Mr. Price, LBP, concerning
the problem of contractual coverage of the unique funding arrangement
for this, contract. Of the several methods proposed, it was ‘decided
that a cost-sharing contract would be most riate. The cost-
sharing factor will, be equivalent to $33,212 (the Air Force share} which
is 18¢ per each $1.00) divided by $220,712 which represents the total
cost of the project. A provision will be written into the contract
which states that the Air Force will sustain any overruns and enjoy any
underruns. In addition, the contract will have a contingency provision
to the effect that if any of the five associate contractors. fail to pro-
vide their share ($37,500 each) the Air Force will pay share/s not
-Provided. Mr. Price ealled Mr, Curtis, of Douglas Aircraft Company
Contract Department, and secured a verbal agreement on this arrangement. ‘ i

(U) Missile Valve Test Services

The Technical Evaluation Board for this Procurement met on Friday,
20 March 1959, and decided upon the criteria and point system for
evaluation purposes. STL is now reviewing the technical proposals
and BMC is abstracting the cost proposal. ‘The board meets again
Thursday, 26 March 1959, to conduct their evaluation. :

(U) Strategic Lunar Stuay : , J :

The Secretarial Findings and Determinations have yet to be received -
for the three SR 192 contracts. Information from Hq ARDC indicates that
the findings may be signed out by the Secretary on 27 March 6or.'30 March
1959. A follow-up TWX has been sent to Hq AMC re
of the signed Findings and Determinations.

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(U) iten Ducted Launcher Test Program : i

A requirement has been received for analytical test reports’ to . t
evaluate by means of scale test the acoustic, aerodynamic and thermo :
environments generated by Titan Missile engineers. This will be a

sole-source program to Aerojet-General, Azusa. PR 59-BMD-591 has been |

signed off by BMD and will probably be received in a day or two. Mean-

while, LEIP intends to conduct preliminary negotiations with Aerojet

to determine the feasibility of letter contract versus definitive con-

tract and fixed-price contract versus cost-type contract.

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(U) Space Technology Laboratories, Inc. i ! 954

1. ‘Amendment No. 1 to Letter Contract No. AF Ob (647 )-309 is
presently in the possession of the Contractor for signature. This

document is for the Purpose of obligating additional funds to the .
contract. No problems are anticipated.

: 2. Letter Contracts No. AF 04(647)-362 and No. AF 04( 647 )-369 JS
to cover additional SE/ID effort by STL.for ARPA and NASA are deing

held up pending receipt of work statements ana funds by LEIP. Contracts

have been written except for the work statements. A concerted effort

has been made by the Buyer to expedite said work statements and PR's

and both letter contracts should be issued within a week.

3. STL has just about Completed submission of all project plans
under Contract No. AF 0l(6l7)-309, with subsequent technical: approval
by EMD. The Technical Plen as submitted by STL was not acceptable to +
BMD and is presently being revised to reflect the manner in ‘which BMD
would like it presented. Said Technical Plan will be returned to STL
for resubmission in accordance with changes made. fn "in-house"
BMC/EMD meeting is being scheduled to reach a decision as to the manner :
in which STL should be asked to submit a revised cost proposal. JS r

(U) Strategic Interplanetary System S

Two offerors have been selected by the Evaluation Board. Nego-
tiations have been completed on one of the Proposed contracts and
negotiations are expected to be completed on the remaining proposed
contract by 30 March 1959. Procurement Processing actions are proceed-
ing on schedule and the contracts will be forwarded +o the contractors
for signature by 7 April 1959. .

(U) Mobile Ballistic Missile Study

The Evaluation Board Recorder indicated ‘by telephone on 25 March
1959 that the results of the evaluation would be completed by 27 March.
However, the date for finalization of the definitive contract has been
Pushed up to 22 April at the request of the BMD Project Officer, in
lieu of 30 April 1959 as was contemplated. No foreseeable problems
exist at this time to prevent finalization of the contract on this
date.

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