WEEKLY DIARY ITEMS - LBZSA
29 October 59 Thru 4 November 59
(U) Commmication Satellite Progrem :

letter Contract AF 04(647)-476 has not been returned from signature yet, but is
expected today or tomorrow. In the meantime, we have received four (4) technical
directives (in the rough draft stage) for coordinstion. These 7-Ds delete the
requirement for tracking beacon command receiver; they slip the lewch schedule
about five (5) months; ana they afd a requirement for station keeping to the
satellite. We have written a CCN synopsising these four (4) T-De and will issue
this CCN agsinst the I/C immediately upon receipt of AFBMD coordination.

(U) Letter Contract AF 04(647)-4h9 Aeronutronics System - Program 609A

(A centutive date for the defuntttzetion of thie Letter contrect has been set wo

for 12 November 1959 provided an adequate cost analysis can be performed and a
Pre-negotiation Briefing is held before this date.

(U) 8-183 lamar Observatory - Final Evaluation

4n introduction and discussion of SR-183 was held on 2 November 1959 in the
auditorium of Building 2 before a group of specialists assembled to evaluate the
six final reports. Those in attendance formed penels for the purpose of giving
technical analysis to the problem areas common to each phase. Among those present
were Rend Corporation representatives who were concerned with the formulation of
® "budget" for presentation to ARDC Headquarters. However, upon examination of
contractor reports, it was determined thet further cost information and technical
evaluation would be necessary before such a budget could be formulated.

(U) Contracts with Space Téchnology Laboratories, Inc. :
Contract AF 04(647)-309 - SE/TD and for Air Force Ballistic Missile and Space Program

1. The "rate of application", i.e., the MDS (members of the technical staff) effort
furnished each month for the Air Force ballistic missile and space program, has been
by administrative agreement in accordance with the levela=0f-effort clause
the contract. ‘The rate which was ted from approximately 845 MIS manmonths
‘in October 1959 to 945 MIS in dime has been increased to approximately 890
in October to 1110 in dime 1960. Toese figures represent straight time manmonths
without overtime included. A total of approximately 900 additional MIS straight
time manmonths must be procured as the total of 14,628 MIS now on contract will be
expended the first in June 1960. én RFP for this additional procurement will
be sent to STL within the next week.

2. We are continuing to work on the Request for Proposal for the follow-on SE/TD
procurement for the Air Force Ballistic Missile and Space Program (1 July 1960

having
hopes of getting as complete an. RFP as possible, we have requested inputs from BMC
Financial Staff Branch, AFBMD, Contract Monitor for STL, ACO end the


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‘WREKLY DIARY ITEMS - LEZSP
29 Oct Through 4 Nov 1959

(U) Procurement of ABLE-STAR Booster

he Source Selection Board bas recommended a source to the Commenders of AFEMD and
AFEMC. ‘Approval of the source is expected by 5 or 6 November 1959. A purchase
request is im process and is expected ia the Buying Office within a few days after
a@ source is approved. The target date for award of a letter contract remains,

15 November 1959. .

(U) Douglas Atroreft Company, Inc.

1. (U) ‘he Contractor returned signed 1/C AF h(647)-481, however, mumerous
suggestions for amending the contract were included ia his submission letter which
will necessitate review by Legal to determine whether the basic Letter Contract
should be vevritten or accepted as signed, and & subsequent amendment be issued to
imeorporate the Contractor's suggestions.

2. (U) S/A No. 52 to Combract AF 04(645)-65 was rewritten and resilmitted to the
Contraetor on 4 November 1959.

3. (U) 8/A No. 56 to Contract AF 0h(645)-65 bas been written incorporating 27
o's into the contract and should go forward to the Contractor for exewatiténvon
9 November 1959. Whis B/A also deletes the technical deta clause from the basic
ay On(Ghy) ale the requirements thereunder will be accomplished user Contract
AF 7-481.

4. (C) Gomtract AF 04(645)-65 - Production Status - Missiles Kos. 230 and 236
were successfully launched on 28 Oct amd 3 Mov 59, respectively, at Patrick AFB.
Missile No. 156 ws transferred from test status ot Sscramento to INST leunch
training at Vandenberg AFB. . .

(U) Modification Kits for Command Destruct Receivers —

A procurement has been initiated for 15 modification kits for Command Destruct
Receivers furnished by AVCO under Contract AF 04(647)-213. Modification kits will
comtain 115 filter assemblies for chanzjel 2 and 115 filter assemblies for channel 5.
The kits will be dustalled in the field by the recipients who originally received
the receivers. Delivery of the modification kits by AVCO will take from 30 to

90 days.

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