ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN WITH REFERENCE TO (Sanitized), PROJECT CORONA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00803R000100070018-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: May 2, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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2 May 1966
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Actions to be taken with reference to
I I :Project CORONA
1. Reference message from D/NRO directs CIA and
SAFSP to take certain actinssuggested immediately
CZA. a.ctionsregarding to tconform0 oA
Program. The following is
reference message.
a. LMSC has been instructed to send copies of
McMahon on Thursday.
ISIC contract to Headquarters with Mr.
Contracts will be reviewed, language adjusted in accordance with
CIA requirements and re-written accordingly. LMSC advises that
there are several outstanding changes to the contract which were never
negotiated by SAFSP. The Contract Officer presently plans to visit
LMSC A/P on 12-13 May to meet with Resident Officer and I
f SAFSP to resolve un-negotiated changes and to ascertain
that delivery requirements of the contract have been met. It is
and
proposed that the contract be signed
cin final onnection, formitawillt ibennece nary
LMSC may bill accordingly. In
for Mr. Holleran to send additional funding approval to CLA to cover
the above billing.
b. With respect to the DISIC qualification, testing,
and integration into the J-3 payload, LMSC has been requested to
amend their Statement of Work and Specifications for the J-3 to
include this DISIG work. This work, therefore, will bec j MSG a part
anti-
of our proposed hardware contract for the J-3 payload.
design control
cipates having the complete Statement of Work, payload
Specification and AGENA interface Specification ready by 12 May.
If approval and/or concurrence from all interested, parties can be
obtained, a Letter Contract for the complete J-3 effort at LMSC will
be issued during the week of 16 May. With respect to DISIC procure-
ment, necessary arrangements must be made between CIA and SAFSP
for the levying of field service engineering and spare parts upon
Fa&rchild during the qualification and life of the program.
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co With respect to the clause in the contract recog-
nizing access to data and information for SAFSP and
the following clause is suggested:
"PROGRAM MANAGEMENT. The effort on the CORONA Program co-
vered by this contract is under the general program management of
Project Headquarters. The Contractor shall plan and conduct program
development, manufacturing and testing of the payload system and sub-
system to obtain the requirement of the CORONA J-3 photographic
satellite system in accordance with the appropriate Specifications and/or
Work Statements attached hereto.
"The technical direction of this contract will be provided
through the Headquarters Technical Representative. The Technical
Representative shall be the day-to-day point of contact for the
Contractor.
"Formalization for such technical direction under this
contract will be documented by the issuance of serially-numbered
technical directives signed by the Contract Officer stating that com-
pliance with subject technical directive is directed pursuant to the
clause of this contract entitled ='CHANGES'.
"It is recognized that the payload system and/or subsystems
are a part of the over-all Program 241 system. With respect to
this, the Contractor hereby agrees to furnish, as necessary, appropriate
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Contractor agrees that representatives of the above organizations may
have access to its plant or plants during the life of this contract.
However, prior to the release of any information or visits by the
above organizations the approval and/or concurrence of the Headquarters
Technical Representative must be obtained."
d. With respect to Part III of the message outlining
SAFSP actions, the following comments are made.
1) As of today, 2 May, LMSC has stopped charging
all payload system integration. effort to the SAFSP in the integration
contract and will submit a proposal. to include this effort under our
current J-1 and proposed J-3 contracts.
2) It is assui.ned that the new SI contract between
SAFSP and LMSC will be written with Sunnyvale and accordingly
cover work a fo rj.ed b eo le outside the A/P facility.
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I. would assume that it will be 30-60 days
before we see the new SAFSP SI contract and coordinate on the
language.
e. As mentioned above, remaining contractual actions
for the full implementation of the J-3 payload will not be given until
the week of 16 May after resolution of the appropriate Work Statements
and Specifications. In this connection, it is assumed that LMSC and
the Resident Officer will have settled upon the configuration and
Specifications for the recovery vehicles incorporating the DISIC.
Accordingly, a Letter Contract to G.E. could also be issued some-
time during the week of 16 May.
2. The above contemplated actions will be taken. However,
it must be recognized that the Specifications and interface documentation
are interim in nature only until formal concurrence by CIA and SAFSP
together with subsequent D/NRO approval. It is anticipated that these
problems can be resolved prior to 15 June.
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