PROCUREMENT OF LONG LEAD TIME ITEMS - RD-122

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03330A004100080018-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 29, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/14: CIA-RDP78-0333OA004100080018-5
Cs ef,, Procurement Division., CL
Chief , Rao beeruw P i vision, CC
Procurement of 1mg 'mod Tim Item ? W-1
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ENGINEMING DIVIS1011
1.
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the initial pow, after
several de3a s, is scheduled to be deliverred, for our evaluati=
on 15 tarn er 3958. fte oaretract pros that this prototype
must be the tractor MW proceed with the
coatructian of nine additional prototype.
2. It now appears that delivery the nine remaining
units msy be advanced frog I February 3959 to 1, January 1959
if the contractor Its allowed to begin cur long lead time
caorq~cE1ents at this thee, and to begin tooling for those dents
hhich v M be fabricated in his machine atop. The progress of
this p' ias been closely monitored and it is unl3ikerly that
aoW shnrtomdnge uncovered in the ford evaluation will result
in serious cis to major eta.
In view or the operations]. Urgency of this
it is re sted that the contractor be authorized to eacp up
to $5000 of the contract funds set aside for the fabrication
pb&Ae of the program on the procuremmt of king lead trues items
and shy tong.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/14: CIA-RDP78-0333OA004100080018-5