Quarterly Report - 1 October-31 December 1973

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• Publication Date: January 21, 1974
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
? Director of Communications DATE: 2 1 JAa 1974
FROM : Chief, Communications Engineering
SUBJECT: Quarterly Report - 1 October-31 December 1973
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1. Forwarded herewith is the Communications Engineering
Quarterly Report for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 1974.
2. Listed below are some highlights reported during the
quarter:
b. The Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Cable
Dissemination System (CDS) was forwarded to nine vendors
in early October 1973. A bidders conference was convened
on 17 October. By mid-November, six of the nine vendors had
withdrawn from the competition, leaving 25X1A5a1
as the three remaining bidders. Proposals were
received from these firms on 4 December, and the CDS evalua-
tion team conducted an intensive review and evaluation of
the proposals during the week of 9 December. The results of
that evaluation were presented to OC management, and evalua-
tion of the proposals continued through the end of the
quarter. Source selection is anticipated in early February
1974.
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c. The Voice Communications Working Group presented
the Voice Communications Plan to the OC Executive Board on
6 December. The Board requested additional information
prior to making a decision on the Agency's voice communica-
tions program, and the Working Group since has been meeting
regularly to prepare the information requested by the Board,
and to refine further the Voice Communications Plan.
d. With the resolution of several knotty technical
problems, MAX-lA was accepted and became operational on
19 November 1973. Subsequent to some initial equipment
failures and switchovers, the system appears to be settling
down and working well. MAX-I, after more than seven years
of operation with a reliability of above 99.99 percent, is
being removed, and minus its classified components, turned
in to base salvage.
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e. The satellite was launched successfully
on 10 November 1973. T e satellite performed flawlessly
until 5 December, when it failed to respond to a high-power
output command. Investigation into the cause of this problem
continued through the end of the reporting period.
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Quarterly Report
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