CHAPTER V
Staff, Supervisory Programs
An active and flexible managerial and staff organization is required to support the
weapons manufacturing mission and its extensive and complex operations.
The headquarters and field staffs of Santa Fe Operations Office perform the management staff functions of planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling SFO
mission activity. In certain instances various staff programs necessarily extend to some
degree of "doing the job."" This is particularly true with regard to controlling source fissionable materials and the custody phase of storage.
SFOO consists of a headquarters staff, largely located in Albuquerque, and a field
staff located in field, branch, and representative offices from New York City to the Marshall
Islands.
The headquarters staff consists of 12 staff offices and divisions, as shown in
Chapter Il.
Each is represented or reflected in field office staffs at the point of contract
administration.
Managerial responsibility is exercised within SFO through "line of command" from
Operations Manager to Field Manager to Contractor, and not through headquarters or field
staff assistants.
Authority is delegated to Field Managers and to contractors.
On the other
hand, the Manager also delegates adequate authority to his staff for performance of the staff
supervision functions,
The scope and nature of SFOO staff supervisory programs are reported in this chapter. It will be recalled that throughout the six years there has been no direct AEC employee
as technical staff officer. The Manager has consistently held that a person qualified to occupy this position could contribute more by assignment to the operating level. For this
reason, the Director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory has continued to serve as the
Manager's staff advisor on technical matters.
The technical program is not reported in
the following sections. The Director, LASL, also has responsibility for classification,
declassification, and technical information, which he assigns to an Assistant Director,
LASL, and these programs are reported. SFOO operations connected with storage have
been reported sufficiently in previous chapters. Reporting of certain staff office programs
is quite brief in comparison with others. This is particularly true of the reports by the
Directors of Office of Production Coordination, Office of Engineering and Construction,
and Office of Test Operations. It may be noted that the work done by these offices is reported or reflected in considerable detail in other chapters. The programs of other staff
offices, as for instance Supply or Personnel and Organization, are not presented so ade=“ elsewhere.
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