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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD 

SUBJECT: January 5, 1967 MOL Management Meeting 

This memorandum provides an official record of the 

MOL Program Office and Systems Office understanding as 

regards the decisions and direction for each of the 

subjects which follow: 

Program Funding 

The Phase II development program will proceed 

against an FY 67 funding level of $228.0 million NOA 

and a planning level of $510.0 million for FY 68. FY 67 

funds will be tracked very closely to conserve funds, 

where possible, to apply to FY 68. 

We will proceed with an FY 68 program based 

on the "Blue Book" baseline requirement for $587.0 

million until such time as a departure from this baseline is dictated by FY 68 funding limitations or technical 

problems. We will also protect the option to pursue an 

FY 68 program funded to a level of $480.0 million and 

will make a decision during late FY 67/early FY 68 as 

to the level on which we can proceed. 

I have assigned this as a joint Program/Systems 

Office action. 

Negotiation of Undefinitized Program Requirements. 

The schedule for completing negotiations by 

June 1967 for the presently undefinitized program requirements was approved by Dr. Flax and the Director, MOL. 

This is a Systems Office Action. 

Special Contractual Procedures 

The contract termination liability clause is 

to be excluded from MOL program black contracts. This 

clause is already excluded from the MOL white contracts. 

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This action will allow the Systems Office to place on 

contract only those funds which can actively be used 

for the attainment of program baseline efforts, and 

will avoid having some portion of contract funds set 

aside as a reserve for contract termination. 

Approval is necesaary for proceeding on an 

expenditure funding basis for all. MOL contracts in 

lieu of the present commitment bests. The fl 67 'Taus 

Book" estimates are based on expenditure funding 

The NOL Program Office will pursue these 

actions in concert with OSAF...a. 

Saturn IVB Prtusleam 

We will continue to participate, along with 

other Air Force activities, in the NASA spent stage 

experiments program. The Systems Office, however, 

will re-examine the usefulness of including an active 

molecular sieve experiment. The Program Office will 

meet with NASA to definitise responsibility and 

establish firm costs for *)L experiments integration. 

We will continue to process, through normal Channels, 

experiments which may be useful to NOL, but MOL 

astronauts will not participate in the MB program. 

This is a NOL Program Office/Systems Office 

action. 

Readout and Data Recovery 

We will continue to include both systems in 

the MOL baseline program. As soon as possible, the 

Systems Office will, provide the costs of protecting 

the readout system studies and associated integration 

effort. By I April the CBS and Douglas studies will 

be evaluated and presented to Dr. Flax with an assessment of the cost impacts and required decision dates 

for each of the systems. Prior to presentation to 

Dr. Flax, there will be a EL internal review. 

Colonel Battle, SAFES and the Systems Office 

have this action. 

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Thermal Doors 

The engineering design of doors to minimize 

the thermal distortion problem wilkbe re-examined in 

February when newly generated data and Cer-vit results 

will be available from OF/EK/DAC. In the interim, 

however,- the OE proposed louvre and pitch mask design 

will continue. 

This is a Systems Office action in concert 

with the Program Office. 

Aoouatic_Teefi 

We will continue to protect the long lead 

time requirements for a low level segment test facility 

at EK, and protect the option for a higher level acoustic 

test facility. Dr. Flax concurred with the plan for 

low level acceptance testing of all system segments 

and vibration testing of the lab module. 

Contractor cost estimates will be acquired 

for a laboratory module test program based on qualification and flight level testing. 

Efforts will Mont ince to determine the best 

combination of facility/location to satisfy MOL program 

requirements. 

Expenditure of $50K is authorized as a holding 

action. 

Action is assigned to the Systems Office. 

Support Module 

The current 30 day baseline engineering design 

was approved and will provide the physical capacity for 

an up to 60 day capability. 

Contingency Planning 

A procurement plan is to be developed to 

cover the contingency of a failure of flight 0'1 or 

failure of one of the manned flights 3, 4, or 5. This 

plan will consider making flight 6 or 7 a manned flight 

and would be accomplished by parallel vehicle procurement, 

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This would then leave the preaent flight 6 or 7 article 

available for later use. If this plan is approved, 

firm costs and decision dates will be developed for an 

additional equipped laboratory module, time phased for 

use as a back-up to flight 6, but intended for use 

with flight 6 or beyond. The availability of the 

laboratory module will, enhance schedule flexibility. 

At the earliest poasible date the Systems 

Office will submit, to Dr. Flax and the Director, NOL 

an analysis of the firm costs and required decision 

dates to provide an additional Gemini B in a time 

frame which would have it avatlab) to cover flight #5. 

Action is assigned to Systems Office. 

A uisition and T Oki S e 

The selection of TTEK as the subcontractor 

to GE was concurred with by Dr. Flax and the. Directors 

t4OL. The rro: contract and OE and DAC integration 

cost total of $19.5 million is $16.5 sillion lees than 

had been budgeted for this task,. 

Extended Life 

A paper for Dr. Poster on entended life time 

considerations is to be prepared for Dr. Floc's signatures 

This is a Program Office Action, 

Program Priority, and Authority 

The DX priority rating letter prepared for 

Dr. Brown's signature and transmittal to OSD is to be 

signed within the next few days. 

The letter authority to proceed with EL 

Phase II activities will be signed by OSA? shortly. 

This is a Program Office action, 

Simulation 

Dr. Flax was concerned with two aspects of 

simulation, He desired to validate that a human operator 

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could indeed distinguish ground scenes under conditions 

of actual scene lighting and actual scene contrast. 

Since it is very difficult to recreate actual conditions 

by ground simulations using scene photographs, Dr. Flax 

was of the opinion that an aggressive aircraft simulation 

program should be undertaken. It was agreed that the 

Systems Office would examine the situation and develop 

a. simulation program. 

Although a general consensus held that design 

of simulators, and simulation materials was a major 

_problem, the Systems Office is to continue an active 

program to improve simulation filidity, and adequacy 

of materials. 

This is a Systems Office action. 

SIGNED 

HARRY L. EVANS 

Major General, USAF 

Vice Director, MOL Program 

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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD 

SUBJECT: March 10 Meeting on MOL Revised Costs/Schedules 

A meeting was convened at Headquartera Air Force 

Systems Command, Andrew: Air Force Base, Maryland, on 

March 100 1967 to review the analyses and conclusions 

reached as a result of the scheduling exercise directed 

upon all MOL associate contractors at the February 15 

MOL Management Meeting. A copy or the material presented 

at the March 10 meeting is attached. Those in attendance 

included; 

General Ferguson Director MOL 

Dr. Flax SA?-R&D 

Brigadier General Berg SAF$S 

Brigadier General Hedrick Ho AFSC 

Dr. Yarymovych- SAPSL 

Colonel Battle SAFSS 

Colonel Heran SAF$L 

Colonel Nester SAM 

Colonel Knolle SAPS? 

Colonel Randall .80SL 

Colonel Sanders SAM: 

Colonel Smith SAFSP 

Mr. Donovan Aerospace 

Dr. Leonard Aereepace 

Mr. Tennant Aerospace 

DISCUSSION 

During the period of .February 16-27 a concerted and 

integrated effort was undertaken by the Systems Office/ 

Aerospace and all MOL associate Contractors to rework all 

segment schedules on the basis of: (a) a 9..month program 

slip and (b) a 12-months program slip. These schedules 

were then incorporated into revised test plans with fiscal 

year and total program costs identified for each. 

The Systems office concluded from this exercise 

that a 9-months program extension was extremely tight on 

scheduling of exchange hardware between Eastman Kodak, 

General Electric, and Douglas. Although technically 

feasible it was felt that the high risk and excessive 

fiscal year cost associated with t4im-spheduiemade. :It 

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baseline schedule, resulted in a test flow plan acceptable 

to all associate contractors. However the ROM costs 

associated with this revised schedule ($586 million for 

FY 68 and $637 million for FY 69) exceeded the FY 68/69 

guidelines of $500/$600 million laid down by Dr. Flax 

at the February 15 Executive Management Meeting. The 

presentation further contended that to impose fiscal 

Year 68/69 ceilings of $500/$650 million would result 

in a minimum program slip of i5 months. Also, it was. 

pointed out that the contractors1 ROM costs were based 

on expenditure plus fee type funding. TO go to normal 

commitment type funding would add additional cost 

requirements of approximately $75.0 million in FY 67 

and $30.0 million in FY 68 with only slight reductions 

in FY 69. 

In the discussions which ensued, the following 

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Dr. Flax and General Ferguson agreed that they 

would attempt to see Dr. Brown and Dr. Foster on Saturday, 

March 11 to review with them the revised scheduling data 

and to obtain FY 68 and FY 69 funding levels which could 

be used by the Systems Office in negotiating revised 

baseline schedules. In no case did Dr. Flax envision 

that these levels would exceed $500/$650 million for 

FY 68/69, 

DX PRIORITY 

It was agreed that a DX industrial priority for 

the program is still required and Dr. Flax will continue 

his efforts with OSD to obtain a dollar limited DX priority. 

As an interim course of action Dr. Flax will support 

action to raise the Program DO industrial priority to a 

more favorable level. For the immediate period, the 

Systems Office will negotiate the revised program schedules 

on the assumption of a DO industrial priority with 

provisions for providing special assistance to the 

contractors for obtaining critical long lead items. 

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TYPE FUNDING EXPENDITURE VS COMMITMENT 

Dr. Flax directed that the MOL contracts be 

negotiated and funded on a commitment rather than an 

expenditure basis. He asked to be .notified, as soon 

as possible, of the additional costs required in FY 67 

to fund the MOL contracts on a commitment basis. If 

these costs, when identified, prove to exceed the PY 67 

budget level, then the Secretary will initiate internal 

Air Force reprogramming action to correct the funds 

deficiency. 

CONTRACTS 

The Systems Office recommended and Dr. Flax 

agreed that fully structural incentive contracts, as 

previously negotiated, are still appropriate for the MOL 

Program, even in light of the schedule slip. The same 

type contracts as orginally negotiated with each of the 

contractors prior to the program slip will be maintained 

in the renegotiations. 

ACTIVE MOLECULAR. IEVE ON 

The MOL Program Office recommended the.t an active 

molecular sieve experiment be carried on the proposed 

Section IV Orbital Workshop flight scheduled for June 

1968, Dr. Flax stated that before approving this 

experiment he- wanted to talk to GeoPzotk&tRof NASA. No 

decision date or reason for this Ott was indicated. 

TITAN Int( DEVELOPMENT COSTS 

Dr. Flax indicated he would discuss with Dr. Foster 

the possible transfer of Titan IIIN development funds 

from the MOL to the Titan III line item. No specific 

date was given from this action. 

NEXT !40L MANAGEMENT MEETING 

Dr. Flax and General Ferguson both agreed that 

either April 6 or April 7 would be an appropriate and 

acceptable date for the next MOL Management Meeting on 

the West Coast. The meeting is tentatively scheduled 

for April 6. 

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SUBJECT Minutes, April 14 NOL ManagementNeeting 

(I) 

The April meeting was held at HQ AFSC, Andrews Air Fore Base. 

The principals in atteniarve were: 

it. Flax 

General Ferguson 

Major General Stewart 

Major General Bleymaler 

Brigadier Gen Martin 

Brigadier Gen Berg 

Colonel He ran 

Dr. Yarymovych 

Dr. Leonard 

A. TITAN III 

The T-III SPO identified additional commitment funding 

requirements beyond the total $80.8 providod through mid-April. 

The additional requirements were presented as three options: 

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Called for an additional 05.2 million of FY 67 funds for 

April 15 through June 30 on a coessitment funding basis. This option 

would slip the T-IIIM 15-months from the baseline zvihedUle and did not 

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Option II 

trN Required an additional $10.2 million of FY 67 funds for 

 April 15 through Jana 30. This option also Slipped the basic program 

 approximately 15-months but did preserve the B, C and D schedules and 

 minimized the overhead cost impact. 

Option III 

Required an additional 49.3 million of Fr 67 funds for 

 April 15 through June 30. This option would have stopped work on the 

co T-1/1M for 12 months and thus slipped the schedule 18 months, have a 

 heavy cost impact on B, C and D„ and result in the loss of experiend 

 tectulleal personnel. 

Option II as approved. However, anything not required to achieve 

 coMmonality of the T-IIIM with other vehicles in the T-III family, should 

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be slipped as necessary to reduce near tera and total fund reqeiremente. 

Of the $10.2 million of additional funds stated to be required to carry 

the T-III program fraa April 15 through June 30. 1967 $7.3 million is 

for T-/Ilbi requirements and the balance for the B, C and D programs. 

$2.5 million has already been released to carry the T IIIM through 

April 30; the balance of $4.8 million will 'be provided at a later data. 

The $2.9 million requirement for the B, C and D is made up of $1.7 

million for compUter hardware, $0.9 million for 15:1 engine nozzle 

work, and $0.3 million to maintain the Titan IIIB contract effort 

through FY 67. Dr. Flax requested to work with the MDL 

Program Office in identifying a source for funds which relate to Titan B, 

C and D as well as Titan IIIK. This reallocation of cost was to reflect 

the rephesing of needs of the using programs. 

B. BASILDON SCHEDULUNDING 

Aerospace presented a briefing which identified a 15 month 

slip to the Blue Book baseline schedule of a first manned laun-h in 

December 1969. The 15-month slip was identified as being en optimum 

program from the standpoint of fund limitations, and eased developaent 

and integration problems (which would have slipped the baseline program 

9-12 months in any event). On a coomdtment funding basis, the proposed 

programs required FY 67/68 funds in an amount of $287 million and $518 

million, respectively. The FY 68 requirement for $518 million included 

development effort for readout and data recovery vehicles. These items 

are further discussed in paragraph D. 

After discussing the costs and schedules for the 15-month slip 

Dr. Flax and General. Ferguson agreed to provide more definitive schedule 

guidance by April 21. (Program Office action) 

C. rS 

This briefing discussed the Aerospace NTS requirements for 

FY 67/68. Dr. Flax did not concur with the FY 68 requirement for 

increased numbers of Aerospace MIS and the associated costs to support 

this inerease. He requested the rationale and justification for in.reasing 

the SE/TD support, when at the same time the program is being accomplished 

over a longer time-frame. (Systems Office action) A potential problem 

exists in that additional MDL MIS positions cannot be allocated out of 

context with the total Aerospace support of BSD, SSD, SAPS?, etc. 

An additional $406K is required to cover the MrS requirements 

for SAFSP for FY 67. There is a reduction of $600K in the T-I/IM effort 

and a portion of this amount will be transferred to SAFSP to meet the 

added DORIAN requirement. (This is a MDL Program Office/MD Comptroller 

action). 

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D. IqTYRIADOUT 

The presentation reviewed the DRV and Readout programs, 

Dr. Flax and General Ferguson directed that these no longer be 

identified as integral parts of the Blue Book baseline program. 

The Laboratory/Mission Module development effort should in lude a 

capability to cam the DRV and/or Readout, but this capability will 

be provided only in a gross sense, i.e., weight, power, and cube 

requirements sufficient to accommodate the capability. 

The Systems Office is to provide more definitive information 

as to specift! contractor effort, schedules and costa neceasery to 

preserve the option to in. the Readout capability in the MOL 

vehicle based on other (e.g., aircraft) readout system developments. 

The Blue Book technical baseline, cost estimates and weight 

requirements are to be adjusted to reflect the reduction in costs and 

scope resulting from the deletion of Readout and DEV, the attendant 

decrease in the weight requirements of 910 pounds, and the change in 

the orbital inclination from 80° to 900. The contraets will be changed 

accordingly. (Systems Office action). 

E. maw MID POWER 

Aerospace reviewed the T-11114 weight capability and specifi 

cations. The current predicted weight of the orbiting vehicle'is 

29,914# (up 635# from the Design Requirements document). The contracts 

permit a maximum weight growth to 31,086#. In an inclination of 900 

and orbital altitudes of 80/180 at 55c N. latitude the T-/IIM capability 

is 31,130#. If the contractors used all of their weight allowane, 

very marginal situation would result. The deletion of the weight 

allowance for the DRY and Readout hardware will relieve this problem, 

at least temporarily. (See paragraph I)). 

Dr. Flax directed that there be continuing attention to the 

weight budget to insure that the incentive structure is suffiAent to 

encourage the contractor to exercise good weight control. (Systems 

Office action). . 

Power requirements were reviewed very briefly, and determined 

to be sufficient for current requirements -- both actual and anticipatd. 

F. TECHNICAL PRaBLENS/ACOUSTIC TESTING 

This was an information briefing. but thrt, following p-rtinent 

remarks were made. 

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Both Dr. Flax and General. Ferguson desire that the subj,ect 

of flight safety be pursued very vigorously to preclude any unsafe 

system conditions. As one example of actions directed toward obtaining 

this objective, they suggested that the EKC and GE contracts should be 

adjusted to require that electrical equipment which is operated in a 

pressurized environment satisfY industry standards for operating in an 

explosive environment. However, this suggestion was not intended to 

constitute the scope of a renewed evaluation of the safety regnirements, 

which should be undertaken as soon as possible. It was recognied that 

the safety effort could involve a considerable expenditure of funds not 

provided for in the original system cost estimates. (systems Office 

action). 

Be also asked that careful attention be applied to the acoustic 

qualification testing program to insure that there is proper feed-back 

of information, and that the program is effective. A suggestion was 

made that consideration be given to the establishment of a master 

criteria list for Vilification testing. The study for the location 

Of a new additional testing facility has not yet been completed, and 

therefore was not discussed at the meeting. 

G. CONTRACTH 

This was an information briefing which described the Systems 

Office/Contractor contract cost estimates for the 15-month slip program, 

and the projected schedule for negotiating the new contracts. There 

was also a brief discussion of the logic and reasons for managment 

practices relating to the Phase IC extensions, and funding the contractor 

until negotiations were completed. 

As part of some general Observations, Dr. Flax stated that: 

- Expenditure funding cannot be used as a basis for 

establishing FY requirements. 

- It appears that we may be tending to a2cept contractor 

cost requirements which are probably inflated, at least for the scope 

of work as currently defined. He implied that the total program ,ost 

increase of some $500 million, if correct, could be very detrimental 

to the future of the program. 

H. CER VIT 

This was an information briefing which reported on the progress 

and future activities of the CER-VIT program. The report indicated that 

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test results, to date, were up to expectations and that thre was 

reasonable confidence in the future use of the ceramic vitr'ous 

material for the DORIAN optics. 

I. MISCILLANFOUS 

Two agenda items were not presented because of the lack of 

auffilent time - "Astronaut Training" and "Operational Recovery Plan-. 

These items will be presented at a later meeting. 

3. EXECUTIVELSIESION 

This closed session included Dr. Flax, Generals Frguson, 

Stewart, Bleymaier, Martin, Berg and Colonel Herm. Schedules, funds 

and management problems were discussed. No specific decisions were 

reached on the schedules or funds. Generals Ferguson, Stewart and 

Berg are working on the nanagement subject for Dr. Flax. 

H. CTBRR 

A copy of the briefing etarts used at the meeting is on file 

with the Program Control Division, SAF-SLP. 

JAMS T. STEWART 

Major General, USAF 

Vice Director, AUL Program 

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