Insepcetion Report No. 15 - AS-12 Development Program(Classified)

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 20, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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Memorandum
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? The Files: Contract 684, Task Order 6 DATE: 20 June 1966
Inspection Report No. 15 - AS-12 Develo e
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1. Project Description:
This 18 month effort is to design and construct a service test
model of the AS-12 system. The system consists of a field station,
a base receiver and sounder transmitter,, and associated data proc-
essing and readout equipment.
2. Contractual Information:
a.
Basic Task: $1,052,744.00 30 June 1964
b. Request for Procurement Action: 4 June 1964
c.
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Initiation Date: 30 June 1964
Completion Date: 1 April 1966, Amendment No. 2
Deliverable Items:
System Design Plan
31 August 1964
Coder/Keyer Interface Documentation, Phase I
31 August 1964
Coder/Keyer Interface Documentation, Phase II
Monthly Progress Letters
Semi-annual Reports
30 September
Monthly
Semi-Annually
1964
Final Engineering Report
1 April 1966
Base Station Instruction Manuals
1 April 1966
Field Station Instruction Manuals
1 April 1966
Engineering Drawings
1 April 1966
Base Station
1 April 1966
Field Station .
1 April 1966
3. Date of Meeting: 1 and 2 June 1966
Place of Meeting: Buffalo, New York
Persons Attending:
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6. Contractor's Performance:
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a. On schedule and expected to remain so: No
b. Within obligated funds and expected to remain so: Yes
c. Satisfactory technical progress: Yes
Project Status :
Both base and field equipment are completed and acceptance tests
have'been run. During this visit, the test results were reviewed and
most of the tests were rerun at one or two frequencies to spotcheck
results. (The tests had previously been run at 100 frequencies.) The
equipment met all the criteria set forth in the acceptance test plan,
with two minor exceptions. The false alarm rate was calculated to be
one in 65 hours. A weekend test resulted in two false alarms. A
recalculation of the false alarm rate uncovered a methematical mis-
assumption; the false alarm rate should have been once every four
hours. The second variation from the test criteria concerned pulse
stretching and shortening. It had been thought that no more than
60 usec on sounding and 100 usec on confirm would be tolerated.
These numbers did not conform with experimental results. A re-
examination of the 1OP1023 code uncovered areas of ambiguity that
would permit pulse stretching and shortening as great as 200 usec.
The final engineering report is being prepared, and equipment
manuals are being published. Completion of this soft wear will end
work on this contract.
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