2.6 FIELD COMMAND NTPR EFFORTS. Among the NTPR teams, the Field Command NTPR (FCNTPR) is responsible for the group of nuclear test participants most difficult to track and quantify. DNA tasked the FCNTPR with providing information about and to nonmilitary DOD participants categorized as follows: civilians from the Secretary of Defense level and their contractors, civilians and their contractors from agencies other than DOD and DOE, and invited U.S. and foreign observers of the nuclear tests. The FCNTPR has identified about 6,000 participants in the given groups and will assume responsibility for the remaining personnel who cannot be identified with one of the services (23). 2.6.1 FCNTPR Tasking. On 1 May 1951, the organization that today is Field Command was estab- lished as part of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP). AFSWP was redesignated the Defense Atomic Support Agency in 1959 and then the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1971. On 7 June 1978, DNA sent a tasking letter to Field Command DNA requiring it to function generally "in the same manner as the four military services to provide an input to the NTPR covering the personnel of AFSWP, and their contractors and laboratories for all atmospheric tests" (24). William S. Isengard, the first FCNTPR Project Officer, noted that FCNTPR was starting "several months downstream" of the other NIPR teams and that the delay was both bad and good. The disadvantage was that FCNTPR would have "less time" for research on Shot SMOKY and the other nuclear tests. The advantage was that FCNTPR could learn from the experience of the other teams (24). 2.6.2 Resources. Field Command recognized the challenge of the NTPR tasking and acknowledged that "some of our best people," those "capable of working independently with a minimum of day-to-day supervision," would be required. The personnel needed would include at least two researchers and a computer systems analyst/ programmer (24). Beginning in 1979 and continuing to the present, team has usually consisted of three persons, military and civilian. following Project Officers have coordinated the team: the FCNTPR The Mr. William S. Isengard, 1978; Major James E. Thomas and Major David E. Hansen, 1979; Captain Mark L. 46