the Simplex Wire & Cable Company was reoeived and chipped to the forward areafi that timO. During the month of Movember, three (S) Chief Eleotrieiants Ktee were sent to the Simplex ~re & Cable %mpanyat Cambridge, Massaohuaette,where they reoeived a two-weeks oourse of instruction in the type ofsplioing to be used at Eniwetok. One reel of”typO 116-P cable was shipped to this same oompany for splicing training. Teohnioians of the Atomio Energy Cbsaion who were looated at the ~ssaohueetts Institute of Technologyalso conduoted oertain prelhdnary tests on this cable in the laboratoryof the oable oompany. Mr. Herbert J. Leupold, a test supervlaor in the oompany, was put in oharge of all business of the oompany with the Task Foroe and later joined the oable organization at Eniwotok. He participated therein an advisory oapaolty on mattere of oable splioing and oable Perfo-oe. All of these foregoi~ nmtters had been ●rranged through the oontraot proposed in the letter to the Chief of Maval Operatfone dated 24 Ootober 1947. During 190vember,the Atomio Energy %nmiauion ohanged its plan for “the distributionsystem or layout of s~rine oable. This ohange involved elimination of the barge as a @notion point and provlbd for the landing of all oablee on islands. Thie ohange did not materially influenoe the plane and ●rrangementswhioh had been ~de for the lafing of submarineo able. It dSd not ai.gnlfioantly inoreaae the amount of oable to be ●mployed. By 20 Nowmber 1947 ●ll the plane for the eubmarine oable projeot were ocmpleted.This ●nded other than no-l 31 Seotion XI responsibilityof the