EQUIPMENT BOARD MINUTES

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Meeting Number 2-64 of the Equipment Board was held on 4 March 1961
in the OC Conference Room, 3, Headquarters Building. Those present were:
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A. Agenda Item No. 1: Discontinuation of R&D Anne Report
1. Introduction
OC-E has proposed that publication of the document -Sumary of
Research and Development", heretofore issued on an annual basis, be discontinued.
opened the discussion by stating that the basic question
is whether this document does enough good to warrent its continuation, pointing
out that while the document is accurate a~, the time its written, much of the
materiel is soon obsolescent or obsolete because development of individual
items is redirected or discontinued, there are changes in time schedules,, etc.
Additionally, considerable time and mousy are involved in preparing and
publishing the document. In discussion it was brought out that there are
several, advantages in retaining the document: it keeps the field advised on a
subject of considerable interest, i.e., the status, and direction of our PAD
effort; it is distributed outside of C cations annd, therefore, keeps
others aware of our R&D programs; and it is useful at Headquarters, particularly
when it is necessary to brief others of our program. It was brought out that
contains a complete listing of all clandestine equipment and that this
document is revised as new items of equipment come into stock. It was
reco zed., however, that is a considerably different type of document
than the R&D manualp but that it, nevertheless, would meet soma of the needs
which the R&D annual fills, particularly those which exist outside of the
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that SPS now issued monthly a summary of their R&D projects and no t that
this net their requirements satisfactorily.
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The possibility of issuing the R&D aenual in considerably simplified
forme, for exaffipie, fewer photographs, loose leaf pages so that additions
and deletions can easily be ,ride, etc, were considered. However, it was
generally agreed that publication of the R&D annual In its present fors is
not required, but that a docunent should be available at Langley which would
provide all the needed information about our program stated
that OCR maintains essentially this type of information for their owa use
and could make an additional copy available for use at Langley. The Board
considered this approach to be acceptable-
3- Board Action
Approved termination of the R&D mannal0 Instead, OC.$ will provide a
document to be retained in the Front Office which will provide a sumaeary of
all R&D projects.
B. Agenda Item No. 2: R&D Status Report
00 -3 periodically briefs the Board an the status of R&D projects. In
this particular briefing, because of the approaching end of the Fiscal Yearp
the briefing will be primarily concerned with expenditures to be made in the
fourth quarter of the yearn Prior to the meeting, a summary of all expenditures
made so far this year plus those planned for the remainder of the Fiscal Year
was forwarded to Board meenmbers 0
opened the discussion by stating that the planned R&D
obligations for the remainder of the Fiscal Year havep in large party already
been approved by the Board and by OS Probably the only item on which full
agreement was not yet reached between 00-B and OS was on the expenditure for
proposed that the list of planned expenditures for
the remainder of the Fiscal. Year be discussed item by item.
Summarized below is a resume of conmaents on those items which provoked
discussion or which were now to the Board:
a.. PM.180 This project involves adding a tri-phase modulator
to the OS-8 Frequency Synthesizer which, if successful, will allow 1480
wpm,tri-phase operation of the Fe-49.
b0 DR-10. This is a Morse writting stylus which will be used by
field operators to copy Morse code traissions at speeds up to 35 wpm-
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c. RS-512. This is & system
which has been under develoomen or approxixatel a year. it
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There is. considerable interest in this device on
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e. RR/B-503. This Is a VHF tuner for the RS-503 which will
allow the RS 503 to be used to receive the R'P-60.
fa CK-30. A requirement still exists for a Meh smaller coder/
koyer/storage device than now available. CC-R is presently soliciting
proposals from industry which may lead to a device smeller than the CK-28.
go 0S/A-8. Just prior to the Equipment Board meeting., CC.E and
OC-OS discussed what our program should be on this equipment. A
frreguency synthesizer is being developed for the 05-100 which will
Provide output in 1 kc increments between 2 and 21.999 nos. However,
it, will not be available in production quantities until the RS-l00
gees into production; approximately 15 months from now. This unit is
substantially larger than the 05/A-8; however, because quite a large
naaber will. be procured for the R5-100 program, unit cost will probably
be lover than for the OS/A-8. The 05/A-8 will provide output in 10 kes
increments between 2 to 11.99 mos. The in disadvantage of this unit
in that all frequencies gust end in 0, and it is on, these frequencies
that the most powerful stations operate in the high frequency range.
H ?rlMhelress, it is believed that we should procure approximately 20
OS/A-880 and ill be approached for a price quotation on these
units. Hopes .y, the unit cost will be between $2,000 and *2#500s,
but it may well be higher. It is expected that production costs on
the 05-100 will be in the vicinity of $1,000 to $1,500.
h. Pedal Generator. This is a generator which is placed on the
ground and upon which the operator stands, and by a pedal motion operates
the device to produce an output of 125 watts. The unit weighs 17 The
and is being developed for the military. It is believed that we should
get several service test models for evaluation because units of this
type would be particularly useful in thlarea.
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i. CK 1000 This is a reworked version of the CO-8, KE-8 and
CA-3 which is waterproof and which would be used mostly with the RS-100.
Presently, conventional coder/keyer/coders are used with the RS-100 and
ate the only portion of the set which is not waterproof.
J. G-54. This is a considerably smaller generator than the 03.58;
development thus far has been sponsored by the military. Because it is
believed that the military will not develop this unit in time for use
with the RS-100,, OC-E proposed that we participate in its development
and, evaluation. There was discussion as to whether the Office should
f nd for this particular project since it can be considered part of the
R13-1O0 program which Is being funded by 0 However, it was brought
out that the hand generator will fulfill other requirements as well as
those of the RS-10?, and that, therefore, it would be appropriate that
we provide the funds to obtain models for our evaluation. Essentially
the same philosophy applies to the CE-100 mentioned above.
1. AS-121 -_I $$508000 is programed for this project for
the remainder of the Fiscal Year. Whether we will actually spend this
money, however, has not yet been definitely decided. It appears unlikely
that the field end of the 0 system can be made smell enough for
clandestine use. Further, there are certain operational problems
involved in the use of the0 system. I lwill be spending 25X1 A
about 2 weeks at later this month, r his return we will
this device would be in the emergency contact position of our present
have a ch better idea of what the system offers.
A. AU1.'0SCAL S&T is obtaining for SPS a scan receiver which
appears to be applicable to certain of our requirements. This receiver
will scan a portion of the HF speetrua, and will lock on and intercept
transmissions which it is programed to recognize. Our application for
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contacts. expects to obtain delivery of an AUXOSCAB system in a
month or so. Before we obligate funds for reconfiguring the s&r
equipment we would like to evaluate their systems but this any not be
possible because of the time element.
C. Item No. 3. Beseareh and Developer nt Approval Procedures
Following dial lion of the R&D status report, game the Board
a short briefing on tkw foxaat which will be used for presenting research and
develop ant requests to Col. White for his approval. The basic write-up
includes an identification of the project, objectives,, backgrounds technical
specifications, contractor and finaacarrangements,, coordination and
security. Except for the contractor and financial arrant portion,,
Colo White approved the format. Col. White stated that he does not require
the names of contractors,, the bid quotations received from them,, or the nacre
of the final contractor; he considers the suitability of these arrangements
to be within the realm of Mr. Garrison. It will be satisfactory if in this
section,, the stateaoent is aaade that cooapetent eontractore have been contacted
and figures are given showing the approximate cost of the project.
Approval
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