MINUTES RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION REVIEW BOARD

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Rsr3earch., Development and Production Review Board
I . Meeting #55 of the Nesearchil Develocnerit and Production Review Board
was held in the OC Conference Room at 1330 hours on 4 April. 1956.
The following persons were in attendance :
II. Under Ajreno'a Item lx Old Business:
The Minutes of Meeting ,754 of 7 March 1956 were rev-toed and
approved by the Board.
III. Under Agenda Item II New Duaines?::
1. A discussion was held concerning an informal request of 25X1A
s.s to the availability of 30O RS_6A's. One of the salient features
which was brought out in this discussion was the fact that, of the
OC-E 2500 RS-6A's which had been purchaaed)2+71_ still remained in stock.
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Action It was decided that the_should be encouraged to make a formal
request to the Agency for those sets and that the Office of
Communications would recomt-.end approval of this request by the DD/P. 25X1A
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3. :Ater a lengthy Odisctr sion ?'f a need for a reporting
mechanism to inform the Research, Developncnt and Production Review
Board of Jobs placed or the Laboratory by inc:ivi-~I:a1 OC cc )onen.ts,
it was decided that these cor.Yaonents shoul,l re:c1ve ...sir _u ?ioritios
by (U cl'.3:;m on:s a xo:ir^; aJJ interested partien. If no agreement can
be :made, then the DCO irt' l be asked to decide the priority. It 6-as
agreed that t'le ::.rzinee r :nr' Div . lion would rends r a brie' report at
each meeting on TICV) i cem:3 of wo-k i:hich have ? ,een r c.eive3 and also
C'c* 1C .;ed.
on pro jea i 3 t:hi :h had been
{ ?Cis agrtec. t1).;-it the next L 1e and ~?ecu .T'C 1c'r',ts i~:1T1[9J.
i' eti)l~- would be devoted to a revi?,;r of t Y-5 (- r' iese'afch and
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`l er Chief, ng:.neering Division gave a resume o the status
of saw of the more i~pcrbant pro; ects:
a RS-1 : , Specifications have been cc leted for the
fabrication of u modified RS--3"3- in Los 25X1 A
Angeles has been asked to prepare a proposal for this work. Some
members of the Board were of the opinion that it might be advantageous
to have local suppliers work on short--term projects such as the R^-13
plans to have the OC-L Liasion Officer canvas the
local a-,rea for potential suppliers of the development of ?lectronic
equipTert
b. AR-2 and AR-3. It was pointed out that five AR-2's
should. be completed by 15 April 1956 and that five AR-3's should
be ready by the middle of June 1956. The question arose as to
whether it would be advisable to make ten AR-2's rather than five
AR-2's and five AR-3's. Fabrication of the ten AR-2's could be
OC-P, cor.[pleted by approximately mid May. Representatives of OC--P,
OC-O& , OC-(1&T and OC-E are to vies t the Laboratory and are to view the
& breadboard model of the AB-3 and discuss its operation-; and
OC-E advantages with the project engineer. They are to rake a decision
Action as to whether work on the AR-3's is to continue or whether it is
to be suspended until work on the ten An-2's is completed. With
OC-O&T a view toward field testing these units the Board asked that 25X1A
Action action be taken to find where the transmitter terminal.
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equipents are now located.
Co Logistics is having some difficulty
in negotiating a contract because of a recent 25X1A
ruling which was made by the Comptroller General regarding the method
of o+mrputing contractual overhead. The differences now appear to 25X1A
have been resolved and work should start on the additional
t;s in. the near future; 5130, a proposal is forthcoming on new
Systems -
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L RS-11. The tr. anal storized version of the RS-11
receiver was delivered by-on the date of this meeting. It
is to be shown to the,, OC Staff at its next rc e t in&; . All of the
components of the vacuum tube version of the RS-l._ have been
received except the ER-11-R which is due April 15. The Daboratoyy
has tented these units and believes that the defects which have
been found should be fairly easy- to rere ,. These units have
been forwt.rded to the Contractor for minor modificatior_s.
6. asked whether anyone at the Board meeting had.
kn.otrledge of anyone in OC contacting '11SA about a speech security
system. stated that TSS had referred a proposal frcm
for a speech privacy system to him. This system,
ass to mane ;p. es, was a privacy system only and was not complex
enough to give cryptographic security. forward the
Proposal to ho
tught that possibly
another cryptographic system had been taken to NSA for cc rent and
had been taken out of the regular OC-S channel.
IV. The meeting adjovxned at 1535. The next meeting of the Ideas and
Requirements Panel (Review of FY-57-58 Budget) will be held on
18 April. The next regular Board meeting viii be hold on 2 Msy 1956.
Members and those in attendance
listed in Paragraph I
R&D Internal Projects
R&D External projects S-E-C-R-F-T
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MINUTES
Research, Development and Production Review Board
I, meeting #54 of the Research, Development and Production Review
Board was held in the OC Conference Roan at 1430 hours on 7 March
1956. The following persons were in attendance:
IT. Under Agenda Item I, Old Business:
1. The Minutes of Meeting #53 and the special meeting of 15
February 1956 were reviewed and approved by the Board.
2. The Operations and Training Division requested information
as to the current status of the AR-2 program. The Engineering
Division reported that five-of the AR-2 units were being fabricated
and that following these, AR-3 units would be produced. It was
agreed that representatives of Q&T and Engineering would discuss
this matter further.
III. Under Agenda Item II, New Business:
1. The proposal for additional development work on the 25X1A
equipment was discussed in same detail, and the Board concurred in
Paragraph 5.1 of the staff study submitted by the Engineering
Division with the following modifications:
a. Off-line cryptographic equipment should be developed
and provided, and reperforating as well as printing equipment should
be developed and provided. It was further agreed that in carrying
on this work the priority of development would be off-line equip-
ment over-on-line equipment and reperforating equipment over
printing equipment. It was also agreed that representatives of
This dosomflt is port of an tategr$tod
fill. if separotad from t5o"foe It fast tN
subjected to tudlvidast systtastis flVW .
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the Security Division and the Engineering Division would hold further
discussions with representatives of NSA to determine the most
suitable type of cryptographic equipment that should be utilized as
part of the system.
2. After some discussion as to the validity of the require-
ment for Communication equipment, the Board decided
that the Operat ons an Training Division should review the
requirement for such MW from both the point of
view of the short-term an ong-term need and should correspond
with the Chief, who had presented this requirement before
reaching a final recommendation. The Operations and Training
Division was instructed to report back to the Board its findings
and recondations.
3. It was the opinion of the Board that the field request for
CV-1 units should be referred to the Operations and Training Division
for action.
IV. The meeting adjourned at 1610 hours. The next meeting of the
Ideas and Requirements Panel will be held on 21 March, and the
next regular Board meeting will be held on 4 April 1956.
Members and those in attendance
listed in Paragraph I
R&D Internal Projects
R&D External Projects
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