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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. FLAX 

SUBJECT: FY 69/70 MOL Program 

Per our discussion Saturday, attached is the message 

sent General Bleymaier re FY 69/70 funding levels and schedule 

adjustments. General Bleymaier advised the Associate 

Contractor Program Managers late last week that the FY 69 

funding would be somewhat less than previously planned and to 

curb early expenditures and commitments pending a rescheduling 

conference. 

General Bleymaier will meet with all the Associate 

Contractor Program Managers tomorrow in Los Angeles. This 

will be a preliminary effort wherein general work content and 

major milestones will be established, followed by about a 

week of individual working of the problem, and concluded with 

a final schedule adjustment/work-detail session about 7-10 

days later. 

With regard to the release of FY 69 funds, we normally 

allocate OA to the Systems Office on a quarterly basis. 

However, until the Authorization and Appropriation Bills are 

passed, funds will be released only monthly. The initial 

increment I have released is S80 million (this will eliminate 

the end-FY 68 "exposure" and provide a comfortable margin for 

the first month. Expenditures plus Fee for July should run 

somewhere in the mid-forties) General Bleymaier has 

advised the Associates that they will be funded on a monthly 

basis until the appropriate bills are enacted. 

Also, as we discussed briefly, I will explore with 

which elements of the MOL Program might logically 

be funded in the procurement accounts in FY 70 and beyond. 

It appears that several subsystems (for example, the Titan IIIM's 

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after the first two qualification launches; Gemini B's after 

the unmanned qualification launch, etc.) could be funded 

legally outside the RDT&E Appropriation. Although this would 

not, of course, change the total cost of the Program, it 

could considerably lessen the MOL burden on both the AF and 

overall DoD Program. We will come up with some specific 

proposals by August 1. 

Finally, in conjunction with the FY 70, Budget Estimate, 

I would like to continue, to exercise in-house a realigned 

program which would defer further unmanned-unique development 

and/or procurement, after completion of Phase 1B approximately 

six months from now, until mid-FY 70 or later. I discussed 

this possibility briefly with General Bleymaier Saturday. 

He and I both feel that the program could be "realigned" at 

about the time Phase 1B is completed, with a choice then 

either of reducing the FY 70 budget requirement somewhat or 

recouping some of the schedule slip beyond August 71 which 

will result from the projected FY 69/70 funding levels. 

JAMES T. STEWART 

Major General, USAF 

Vice Director, MOL Program 

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Date: 29 JUNE 1968 

DORIAN SECUR: 

FOR GENERAL BLEYMAIER FROM GENERAL STEWART. DR.. FLAX HAS. DIRECTED 

THE WORK AND FLIGHT SCHEDULE FOR THE PRESENT BASELINE MOL PROGRAM BE 

DUSTED AS NECESSARY IN ACCORD WITH THE OLLOWING: 

PLAN ON $515 MILLION NOA IN. FY 69 AND $600 MILLION NOA IN FY 70. 

CONTINUE THE PRESENT FISCAL—MANAGEMENT UNDERSTANDING WITH THE, 

'ASSOCIATE CONTRACTORS THROUGH BOTH FY 69 AND FY 70 TO INSURE THE BEST 

POSSIBLE UTILIZATION OF AVAILABLE OBLIGATING AUTHORITY IN THOSE YEARS. 

3. RESCHEDULE FV-3, THE FIRST MANNED ALL—UP- FLIGHT AS EARLY AS 

POSSIBLE AFTER AUGUST 1971 BASED ON A TIGHT REPEAT TIGHT WORK SCHEDULE. 

4. .SET APPROXIMATELY 4-5 MONTH INTERVALS BETWEEN FV—.3 AND SUBSEQUENT 

MANNED AND UNMANNED LAUNCHES. RESCHEDULE FV-1 AND FV-2 QUAL LAUNCHES SUCH 

THAT A REASONABLE BALANCE IS MAINTAINED WITH THE ADJUSTED FV-3 LAUNCH DATE. 

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