PROJECTED CHRONOLOGY FOR THE AP-3

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04770A000100110025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: June 30, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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TID/TAB - 76/66
30 June 1966
SUBJECT : Projected Chronology for the. AP-3
1. The purpose of this memo is to bring up to date the present
status of the AP-3 and. to try to predict the sequence of events that
should take place before any plans are made for putting the AP-3
into production.
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instrument is presently being assembled by the
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tive. The representatives at the November 1965 meeting
with NPIC personnel stated that it would take 4 to 6 weeks for
assembling and testing of the AP-3.
3. A proposal has been received, from
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the trainin of programmers and maintenance personnel at the
This should keep the instrument
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for another 4 to 6 weeks.
4. The instrument would then be ready for delivery in
September. The program package accompanying the instrument
would be for Panoramic, Frame, and Terrestrial Photography.
5. The personnel were asked in January 1966 to study
and submit a proposal for writing and programming a math routine
for strip photography. On 21 June 1966 the proposal for the strip
photography routine was received in NPIC. This proposal, if
accepted, would be for a 3 month feasibility study to see if the
prosrram could be written and if the AP-3 computer could handle
the program. If the feasibility study proved favorable, then a
contract would be let to for the following:
a. To write the program
b. To change any circuitry necessary in the AP-3 Computer
to make the program operable.
Declass Review by NGA.
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Production Section
Technical Analysis Branch
SUBJEC'T', Projected Chronology for the AP-3
If the feasibility study was started in July 1966 and proved the
Strip Program could be written for the AP-3, a conservative
estimate of January 1967 would be placed on delivery of the AP-3
if they need the computer at their frcility.
6. A 90-day period at NPIC is to be allowed for assembling
ancO, testing before acceptance of the AP-3 is final. This would
take us through April 1967.
7. Before the AP-3 can be put into production, a program of
training and familiarisation will have to be initiated. If the
AP--3 is scheduled for 3 shifts, a rini:mun of five people should
be trained to operate the instrument. These people would form
the nucleus for operating future APA instrument or instruments.
It could be July 1967 before the AP-3 would definitely be ready
to be utilized in the manner this instrument was originally con-
ceived for.
DiAtribution
Orig. - C/NPIC/TID/TAB Files (Poute to C/TID & Bet TAh)
1 - Asst. for P&l8/NPI
1 - C/1 PIC/TID/TAB/PS
1 -- C/NPIC/TID/TAB/PS
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