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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. SEAMANS 

SUBJECT: MOL Termination 

To implement Mr. Packard's June 9 directive to terminate 

MOL (Arch 1) I sent the following message to General Bleymaier 

last night: 

"Eyes only Gen Bleymaier from Gen Stewart. There follaws 

final guidance and direction re MOL Program termination (Note: 

This message amends some previous guidance). 

"Part 1. McDonnell-Douglas Huntington Beach. Terminate all 

in-house and sub-contractor activities except Fairchild-Hiller 

(waste management), Hamilton-Standard (ECLS), and IBM 

(computer). Direct McDonnell-Douglas to issue stop-work 

notices to those three sub-contractors and advise them that 

additional direction will be forthcoming in two weeks. 

"Part 2. McDonnell-Douglas at St. Louis. Terminate all MOL 

activities. 

"Part 3. Martin and all Titan IIIM Associates. Terminate all 

MOL activities. 

"Part 4. General Electric. Terminate all clearly unique mannedsystem in-house and subcontractor activities. This includes 

such items as the Acquisition and Tracking Scopes; all simulation effort; the slide viewer and cue-projection system; all 

AGE/AVE and exchange hardware peculiar to the manned system, 

etc. Additionally, GE should be directed to immediately reduce 

continuing in-house and sub-contractor activities and work 

forces so that total expenditures do npt exceed a rate of 

$4 million per month. 

"Part 5. Eastman Kodak. Terminate all clearly unique mannedsystem in-hause and sub-contractor activities. This includes 

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such items as the visual optics; the processor and viewer; 

exchange and training hardware related to man; data return 

containers, etc. Additionally, EK should be directed to 

immediately reduce continuing in-house and subcontractor 

activities and work forces so that total expenditures do not 

exceed a rate of $5 million per month. 

"Part 6. Crew-related. Issue stop-work notifications to 

Hamilton-Standard (pressure suit) and Whirlpool (feeding 

system). Indicate additional instructions will follow in two 

weeks. Terminate all other crew-related activities. 

"Part 7. SCF. Direct SCF to issue a stop-work notice on all 

in-house and contractor MOL activities. Additional instructions will be provided within 30-60 days. 

"Part 8. Software. Issue a stop-work notice to TRW. Indicate 

additional instructions will be provided in two weeks. 

"Part 9. Military construction. Present construction phase 

of SLC-6 should only be completed to extent that "mothballing" 

is reasonable. All other construction should be stopped, if 

reasonable, and "mothballed". 

"Part 10. Appropriate instructions and/or notifications should 

be issued to all Systems Office contractors at or immediately 

before 1030 AM EDST, June 10." 

The stop-work notifications to the subcontractors 

identified in my TWX -- except for IBM (computer) and TRW 

(software) -- were issued because NASA expressed some interest 

in them for possible AAP application; NASA understands that 

we will terminate the AF contracts in approximately two weeks. 

IBM and TRW are on a stop-work status for about two weeks while 

we determine whether they should be continued toward the 

possible unmanned application. 

This morning, General Bleymaier and I personally called 

all MOL contractors and certain AF agencies and advised them 

of MOL cancellation. Messages have been sent to all 

contractors in accordance with my TWX quoted above. 
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I am going to the West Coast in the morning to help 

General Bleymaier prepare detailed follow-up instructions to 

the contractors and will be there through Friday. Colonel 

Ford will be available here in my absence. I will give you 

a more detailed status report next week. 

S T. STEWART 

ajor General, USAF 

ice Director, MOL Program 

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Gen McConnell 

Gen Ferguson 

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