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Advanced Research Projects Ly
Readquartere, United States Air Force .
Comender, Air Research & Development Command
Commender~in-Chief, Strategic air Command
Commander, air Force Cambridge Research Center
Commander, Rome Air Development Center
Commander, Wright air Developaent Center

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Ballistic Miesties Center (nq an)

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1959 and Stand Wo. l to

efforts for SENET aot
Pleaniag for Fiscal Year 1969, Receipt of this Teduct:

rescheduled for the blockhouse to 15 August:
1 October 1959,

che fiscal year Will have a deleterious effect pom the stable and
tae progran,

effictent Conduct of
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Reperted under
fabrication, assembly,

STATWS (Section 2) as related to
testing, etcetera,

5: ABA ACT mowze .
a. authorisation te Continue the Feceverable capsule Portion of
the program ta accordance with original achedules, . |

b, Re-establish ARPA funding at the $160 militens level as
april tng the January 1959 Development Plan, epproved by ARPA ta
Apri. e

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Tashiagee estes To jects Agency

Thompsca-Remo-Wooldridge Corporation (data handling portion of the
Program). Fiscal Year 1959 fending was $105.6 meer Fiscal

Year 1960 funding 25 $143, A summary list of contractors
is given in Tab 3, Sec! ° the Development Plan,

2. TEGREICAL status
a Wiaual Recoongtssance syeten
- (1) Bel Payload ~ Component assembly will be lete and
she, free flyable prototype Payload will be ready for final © ascenbly
ted

(2) 8-2 Payload “ceuponent asccably was completed and
final aseenbly of compaacate on the developmental model serene is

r letion. Tests are be: Conducted on the leted 36-inch,
£/4 lane and the film end web transgose mechanisn, Vabeteation of the
two-speed processor has been starced, Design of the Prototype (flight)
model te complete and fabrication of the first flight Package is
Spproximately 30 Percent complete,

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(1) Fl Peyload Development - The following models are
in various stages of completion and testing:

(0) Mechanical model - simulates size and weight of
various Components.

(b) P-1 Model - first electrical Prototype.
(ce) P-2 Model - second Prototype,
_ @) Deliverable Models - three types, 8-1, 8-2, 8-3,

(2) ¥-2 Payload Development - Design and hardware progress
ie compatible with flight program schedules as follows:

(a) Band 3a antenna - scale mockup in test, full scale
wedel in fabrication.

(b) Band 1 receiver subassemblies - package design
complete, associated electronic Problems solved.

(c) Bend 2 receiver subassemblies - in electronic test.
(@) Data anelyzer circuit boards - ia electrical test,

(e) Power supply ( 12 volt) - precision tria tesistors
being added as result of test.

(£) Power supply (160 volt) - tipple problems revealed
by test being solved.

Magnetic amplified pever ly breadboard (-200 to
-308 velt) - eres iaet tests satisfactery eacope for ripple ta cutput.

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€. Ground Equipment Development:
component test and checkout area is nearing completion.

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Installation of equipment will start in August. Assenbly of the B-1

prototype test console and fabrication of the B-2 cost console were
completed in July. The 240-inch collimater was completed on 1 July,

and fabrication of the 144-inch vertical collimator prototype is nearing
completion. Prototype ground reconstructica electronic equipmeat for

the E-2 payleed video signal will be assembled and preliminary testing
completed by 1 August. The F-1 prototype subsystem checkout console vas
delivered te IMD in wid-July. Acceptance testing of the first deliverable
Pgacorst was completed and the wait delivered to LMSD ene week shead

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4. Healear usiliery Power Supply

LBD report 44505, dated 15 July, contains requirements for
developing and operating the special accessory equipment and facilities
associated with the integration and use of radieisetopic and reactor-type
auclear auxiliary power systems spplicable to the SENTRY Pregran. An
auxiliary pewer supply briefiag wes presented to the Air Ferce Ballistic
pene tony Division Field Office Representative at Vandenberg Air Ferce Base

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{1) Maller, Raymead and Brown's sixth quarterly report
presented a summary of work conducted on the multiple intercept preblem;
and discussed mathematical intercept models, radar order-of-battle models,
end statistical intercept models. Results are given ef the refined
multiple intercept probability calevletions fer the first few prierity

bands. A sf density mode}, odatersd on Moscow, ic |
presented. for 1965. The model, extending 1,650 nautical ailes, includes,
in ebdition te gtound-besed enittets, ent” emitters (such as

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