P.I. PERFORMANCE & TECHNIQUES STUDY (Sanitized)REQUEST FOR OVERRUN FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04770A000700040027-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: May 4, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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NPIC/P&DS/D/6-1344
4 May 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Development Branch, P&DS
Request for
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Overrun Funds
SUBJECT: P.I. Performance & Techniques Study -
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BACKGROUND: NPIC's working relationship with the contractor, 25X1
on this contract has been very informa .
Twice, during the life of the contract, NPIC diverted the Contractor
from the original goals in order to accomplish unscheduled, but
.essential, short-time-period tasks. Now, in April 1966, the contractor
states in the accompanying letter why the contract cannot be finished
by the original terminal date, 18 June 1966, and why 25X1
eels justified in asking for additional funds to
complete the work.
FACTS: Two P.I. Performance testing programs are currently underway
in NPIC. They both require the expenditure of a substantial number
of man-hours by NPIC's operational personnel who are serving as test
subjects. Because of conflicts with operational work schedules, which,
understandably, always take precedence over the test programs, both
programs have been delayed several times through no fault of the
contractor. One of the two programs, which is determining mensuration
accuracy for TID/TAB, has progressed at a rate far slower than
originally planned by the contractor.
CONCLUSIONS: The contractor's request for additional funds to complete
the work in progress is reasonable. The slowing of progress on the
two test programs being run in 0 is a direct result of the
assigned personnel being diverted from their roles as test subjects
in order to do operational work of the highest priority. These
delays are not the fault of the contractor, but they have meant and
will mean more trips to Washington for the representatives of the
contractor and more professional man-hours expended per data point.
RECOMMENDATION: P&DS recommends that be
granted the funds needed o complete the work currently in
progress.
Development Branch, P&DS
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As you know, we are currently conducting two studies in
your facility under Contract)
of mensuration accuracy as a function of:
1_. Image modulation----five levels
Edge spread----five levels
Image shape:
a. Angles--four levels
b. Radii--four levels (incomplete)
4. Image size-three levels.
The second study is concerned with the accuracy of the
interpretation and analysis of selected domestic missile sites
as a function of ground resolution.
It is now clearly evident that we cannot complete these
two studies within the funds or time remaining on our contract.
(The contract ends on. 19 June 1966 and as of 31 March 1966,
Three major phases remain to be completed on both studies
data collection, data analysis, report writing. The main
difficulty has been and will be the data collection phase of
each study. The data collection phase of the mensuration study
began during the last week of November 1.965. Since that time,
15 of 25 GEMS have been measured. Assuming that a comparable
data collection rate could continue, data collection would be
completed around the end of July. However, we anticipate a
Comparator is now
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available to us for only two hours per day. Furthermore, we
currently seen to have fewer subjects available to us because
of conflicts with operations. These delays imply more trips
to the East Coast and more professional man-hours expended per
data point.
has finished writing the computer program
for the analysis of variance of the mensuration data, and a
successful test-run of the program has been made. Within one
expects to have a teletype link to
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time-shared computer facility.
With the program and the computer, we could probably complete
the primary analyses of the mensuration data in a day. Second-
ary analyses and report writing would require another month.
Consequently, we are prepared to complete the mensuration study
promptly as soon as the data have been gathered.
Cenerally speaking, the data collection phase of the missile.
study is going well. We have had to suspend operations twice
due to conflicts with operations, but fortunately the actual
read-out time has been less than we had predicted. It should be
remembered, however, that the PI read-out represents only the
first phase of data collection, a second phase will be conducted
at the client's parent organization, and we have little notion
at the moment of how long it is going to take. Finally, the
analysis and report writing is going to be more complicated and
require more tine than we anticipated. The reason is that we
originally had not planned to use such a complicated response
technique- the more complicated technique was adopted because it
is a very close approximation of operational conditions.
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is very important that both studies be completed. we request
25X1 and additional costs of
of 30 September 1966 25X1
Very truly yours,
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