representativesof EC at Sendia Bese, Albuquerque, New Mexico, who agreed to send their communicationsrepresentativeto JTF-7 headquarters et Wssh~on, D. C., to coordinate the commnicetlons requirements of thet group. After arrival in Washington on 1 November 1947, numerous conferences were held with v~ri~s interested groups, services and agencies in en attempt to obtsin frOUIthem as many commnicetions requirements as were yet lmown In order to include those requirements in the communications and electronics plan and to prepare appropriateequipsmt lists fm pro- curement parposes. Conferenceswere held with the Chief Signal Officer and A~Comralnic8tions Service Division in regard to equipnwnt requirements, frequencies and engineering. Every considerationwes given to the project by Colonel Wesley T. Guest, Chief of Army ComnunicationaService Division, Major J. O. McLand and Captain George H. Darwin, USA. Their assistance and cooperationwes invaluable in the many engineering,procurement, procedural and r8dio frequency assignment problems that confronted the comunicetions section. Mr. Louis A. Hopkins arriwd on 27 October 1947 from %ndia Base ,and presented additional camunications requirements for the Atomic Energy Coudssion. These requirements together with those of Navy, Army a snd Air Force were consolidated in a tentetive commmicetions end electronics plan. This plan was the basis for requisitions of commnicatlons equl~nt and personnel from the Zone of Interior. Both the equip- ment and personnellists were presented to Office of the Chief Sign&l Officer for check on availabilityso thet if substitutionsproved neceaaary, they could be made prior to submission of the firm lists through normal channels. 55 Section XI 1