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which had to be overcome by Robertshaw in their development of a Pressure Regulator,
have been resolved. It is anticipated that the Project Officer and vepresentative(s)
from IBZSP will visit Robertshaw this month to witness a demonstration of the Pressure
Regulator's capabilities.

—€€) Aerojet-General Corporation, Contract AF O4(647)-373, has completed the largest
portion of this contract. The contract Provided for a test program which would
reveal certain date pertinent to the Jaunching of a Titan missile from a silo-type
ducted launcher. The final report required by the contract will be submitted on or
before 20 December 1959. Aerojet has completed the contract to the satisfaction of
the Project office. : .

(U) Contract AF 04(647)-372 with Planning Research Corporation, Los Angeles, is for

@ six months study of Mobile Ballistic Missiles Systems. A draft of the final report
wes submitted in November 1959. ‘The BMD Project Officer decided after review of the

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(U) Procurement of Ablestar Stage

Letter Contract AF 0(647)-509 was signed by the Contracting Officer and tranemitted
to Aerojet-General Corporation on 17 November 1959. ‘the Contractor signed the con-
tract on 18 November 1959 and has begun work. Negotiation of the Definitive Contract
is expected to begin in the near future. .

(U) Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.

1. (U) Supplemental Agréement No. 92 to Contract AF 0k(645)-65 which definitizes
letter Contract Designated 8/A No. 15 was forwarded to AMC (MCPC) on 16 November 1959
for review and has not yet been returned from AMC. This Supplemental Agreement
Provides services and supplies for the support of the WS 1171 Program including
Jaunching capability at Vandenberg AFB through 31 December 1959.

2. (U) Supplemental Agreement No. 56 to Contract AF 04(645)-65 was executed and
returned by the Contractor on 1 December 1959 and will be forwarded to BPC for final
review and distribution thie week. This Supplemental Agreement definitizes 27 CCN's
issued under the contract and deletes the “Dechnical Direction” Glause from the
contract since Technical Direction for the. THOR Program is covered under Contract.

AF Oh(647)-482.

3. (U) Supplemental Agreement No. 99 to Contract AF 04(645)-65 was forwarded to

LBPC on 30 Hovember 1959 for initial review prior to transmittal to the Contractor.
This Supplemental Agreement supersedes Letter Contract Designated 8/A Wo. 41 and
establishes and specifies requirements for the WS 315A Interin Unit Proficiency system.

(U) Long Range R&D Program

AiResearch Mfg. Corp., Contract AF O4(647)-163, did not meet the 20 November 1959
completion date set forth in the contract. A recent visit by the Project Officer to
AiResearch disclosed that they had encountered difficulties in the it test-

60, at which time they will have completed the contract to such a degree that the

only work remaining to be done will be the fabrication of the hardware to be delivered
to the Air Force and completion of the Final Report called for by the contract.
AiResearch further advised that they would probably need additional funds to continue
the work past 31 Jan 60. ‘It is the Project Officer's Position that any additional
required funds would probably be provided if AiResearch could satisfactorily demonstrate
in January that the Solenoid Valve would perform as required by the contract.

(U)  Robertshaw-Fulton Controls - Contract AP 04(647)-161

A recent visit by the Project Officer disclosed that Robertshaw had substantially
advanced toward the completion of the contract. Most of the technical problems

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(U) Letter Contract AF 04(647)-449 Aeronutronics System - Program 609A

Negotiations for the definitization of this Letter Contract are in process.
Agreement has been reached on the Work Statement. We have also agreed that
the Definitive Contract will be a CR contract with no fee, although future
changes may be fee-bearing. Agreement bas not been reached on estimated cost,
snd we are presently $556,000 apart (Contractor's revised Proposal: $3,033,000
ve AF counter offer of $2,487,000). Negotiations continue 4 December 1959.

(U) Contract AF 04(6k7)-309 - 8B/TD and Air Ferce Support for Ballistic
Missiles and Space Programs

The request for proposal for the follow-on Procurement under this contract is
being completed in coordination with AFEMD contract monitor, Lt. Col. Bogert,
and will be sent to SEL tomorrow.

(0) AF 04(647)-369 - se/eD for MIs Program

The two major points of disagreement, (type of contract and period of perfor-
mance) which delayed Gefinitization of this letter contract, have been resolved.
We agreed to write a level-of-effort CPFF contract to cover the period through
30 June 1961. Negotiations were completed on 16 November 1959 at an estimated
cost of $1,007,000 with a fixed fee of $95,600. The definitive contract is now
being processed. . .

(0) Contract AF 04(647)-361 - Tiros, transit and Courier Projects

Cost negotiations of this Letter Contract began on 23 October but could not be
completed because of lack of information from SIL. The negotiations were :
continued on 13 November at which time STL submitted a $0.9M upward revision
to their proposal. This increase plus $0.3M additional. fee for CCN ir. 1,
which revised the launch schedule, resulted in a serious funding problem. A
meeting of AFEMD/M0/ETL was held on 18 Noveaber to discuss this problem at
which time STL agreed to take & close look at the total : estimated cost
and submit their best. estimate by 23 November. During the tS Hovenber meeting

/ the SEL representative, Dr. Mettler, questioned the validity of $0.9M upward

revision in their proposal as actual cost to date had been closely

the original estimated cost. A follow-up meeting was held on 25 November at
which time SPL advised us that their best t estimate for the cost of the
totel program was $9.3M plus $0.7M fee gt a total of 10.M required for the
SEL portion of this Program. As a result of this exercise, the AFBMD project



Funding of StL Contracts

We have obtained additional funds in the last ten days which have permitted
us to fund all of our contracts with SIL through December, with the exeption
of two which are funded through January and February 1960. This additional

funding was the result

of @ special effort by our office with AFEMD ta