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HEADQUARTERS 

SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION 

AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND 

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 

Air Force Unit Post Office, Los Angeles 45, California 

REPLY TO 

ATTN OF: 

mmuEcr MOL Source Selection Board 

To: General Schriever 

1. Pursuant to the disoussion held 14 January 1965 betIceen yourself, 

Dr. McMillan and General Ferguson, it was agreed that General J. 

Maxwell should continue to chair the SSB for the purpose of selecting 

three contractors for the initial study of the reoriented MOL program. 

2. Acting for and in the absence of General Maxwell, I have submitted 

under separate cover the complete list of contractors considered by 

the working panel of the SSB, together with the criteria and the list 

of contractors determined to be qualified. 

3. It was determined that in order to meet the dates imposed by the 

4 January DDR&E Directive on the reoriented MOL program, extraordinary 

procedures would be required to complete the selection and approval 

process. Furthermore, that for the initial selection of study 

contractors all board members should have special clearances. 

4. Therefore, the following names are submitted for your approval 

to undertake the initial task of selecting three contractors to 

proceed with a 60-day study effort on the reoriented MOL program: 

General J. C. Maxwell Continue as Board Chairman 

Colonel R. Berg 

Colonel R. Nudenberg 

Colonel D. L. Carter 

SAFSP 

SAFSP 

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SAFSS (to be approved by the 

Under Secretary) 

Respectfully request your approval. 

- J. S. B /11141.16 1‘- 1"/ 

1/ Brigadier General, USAF 
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SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION 

AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND 

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 

Air Force Unit Post Office, Los Angeles 45, California 

REPLY TO 

ATTN OF: 

SUBJECT : Qualified Contractors 

TO: General Schriever 

A DDR&E memo of 6 January 1965 to the Under Secretary of the Air 

Force defined the objectives of the MOL program. 

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An 8 January 1965 implementation directive to SSD (SSH) contained 

the following: 

a. Fund three preliminary design studies of MOL configurations 

employing Titan IIIC and Gemini B. 

b. Lab configurations should include provisions for: 

(1) Testing concepts of assembly of large optical devices 

in space. 

(2) Servicing large optical systems. 

(3) Testing concepts of assembly and service of large 

radio telescopes in space. 

(4) Testing high resolution surveillance radar concepts. 

(5) Manned experimentation facilities. 

c. The three contractors chosen must be qualified to build the 

laboratory module whether the final approach selected is: 

(1) Titan IIIC and Gemini B and lab module; or, 

(2) Saturn IB and Apollo CSM and lab module (in place of 

LEM Adaptor Section). 

d. Study work will be fully funded and final contractor will be 

one of three selected without further competition from industry. 

Contractor must be selected, approved and given go-ahead by 

1 March 1965 in order to meet the schedule for completion and analysis 

by mid-May. 
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Further guidance was issued 14 January 1965. In response to your 

verbal request the attached list of contractors determined to be 

qualified is submitted for your approval. 

These contractors have been determined to be fully qualified based 

on specific criteria specified in paragraph 25 of AFM 70-10 and certain 

other specific factors adopted by the MOL SSB. 

The specific criteria and the determining factors are inclosed as 

a matter of record together with a list of forty-nine other contractors 

determined as not meeting the criteria. • 

Request you approve the list of twenty qualified contractors 

recommended to receive the RFP's when authority- to proceed has been 

issued. 

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J. B / Brigadier deneral, USAF 

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CONTRACTORS DETERMINED QUALIFIED: 

(1) The Boeing Co 

(2) Chrysler Corp 

(3). Douglas Aircraft Co, Inc 

(4) General Dynamics Corp 

(5) General Electric Co 

(6) Goodyear Aircraft Corp 

(7) Grumman Acft Engineering Corp 

(8) Hughes Aircraft Co 

(9) Ling Temco Vaught, Inc 

(10) Lockheed Corp 

(11) Martin Co 

(12) McDonnell Aircraft Corp 

(13) North American Aviation Corp 

(14) Northrop Corp 

(15) Radio Corporation of America 

(16) Raytheon Co 

(17) Republic Aviation Corp 

(18) TRW Space Technology Labs 

(19) United Aircraft Corp 

- (20) Western Electric Co Inc 
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CONTRACTORS DETERMINED UNQUALIFIED 

(1) ACF Industries Inc 

(2) Aerojet-Geieral Corp 

(3) Aeronca Mfg Corp 

(4) Allis Chalmers Mfg Co 

(5) American Bosch Arma Corp 

(6) American Machine & Foundry Co 

(7) Atlantic Research Corp 

(8) AVCO Corp 

(9) Beech Aircraft Corp 

(10) Bell Aerospace Corp 

(11) Bendix Corp 

(12) The Borg Warner Corp 

(13) The Bunker Ramo Corp 

(14) Burroughs Corp 

(15) Cessna Aircraft Co 

(16) Collins Radio Co 

(17) Cook Electric Co 

(18) Curtiss Wright Corp 

(19) Cutler Hammer Inc 

(20) Electric Optical Systems Inc 

(21) The Emerson Electric Co 

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(22) Fairchild Camera & Inst Corp 

(23) Fairchild Hiller Corp 

(24) Firestone Tire & Rubber Co 

(25) FMC Corp 

(26) The Garrett Corp 

(27) General Motors Corp 

(28) General Precision Inc 

(29) General Telephone & Electronics Corp 

(30) Hoffman Elec Corp 

(31) Honeywell Inc 

(32) IBM 

(33) ITEK Corp 

(34) International Tel & Telegraph 

(35) Kollsman Instrument Corp 

(36) Lear Sigler Inc 

(37) Litton Systems Inc 

(38) Marquardt Corp 

(39) Melpar Inc 

(40) Motorola Inc 

(41) Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp 

(42) Philco Corp 

(43) The Ralph M. Parsons Co 

(44) Ryan Aeronautical Co 

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Sperry Rand Corp 

Texas Instruments Inc 

Thiokol Corp 

Union Carbide Co 

Westinghouse Electric Corp 

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