iia While development reports are written for both the AEC and the DOD, the manuals for stockpile weapons are prepared primarily for the weapon users, the DOD. They include manuals of weapons, weapon assemblies, fuze tests, aircraft loading tests, surveillance, aircraft modification, and handling equipment, assembly and maintenance. They include not only manuals for the assembly, inspection, storage, and.use of atomic weapons, but also manuals which serve as catalogs of information and miscellaneous indexes of publication. This large second group of reports is prepared by those most closely in touch with the actual users of the weaponsin the field, the military liaison and training organization. The manuals are prepared in close coordination with the groups who train teams to use weaponsin the field and with the field engineers of this organization. In this way the manuals' writers are aware of problems which arise in the field and are in a good position to modify manuals rapidly in accordance with changes suggested by field experience. In both of the large areas of publication, the development schedules and the need for up-to-the-minute information place a premium on meeting tight deadlines. Other SFO contractors deal almost exclusively with weapons information and hence do not distribute their reports as widely within the AEC organization. Declassified or Unclassified Technical Information -- The AEC program on non- classified scientific and technical information is primarily not one of public dissemination, but is one of facilitating an individual's dissemination to specialized audiences and of making information available to anyone interested. Unclassified reports are distributed according to Technical Information Division di- rective 4500 "Distribution Lists for Non-Classified Reports." The need to make atomic energy technological information available to American industry was recognized in 1952 with establishment within Technical Information Service in Washington of an Industrial Information Branch. This new sub-program acts primarily to stimulate field organization dissemination of the subject information. It varies from other contractor-operated phases of technical information by assigning final coordination and clearance responsibility within an Operations Office to the AEC information officer. Of the contractors other than LASL and Sandia, Holmes & Narver, support service contractors for Pacific Proving Grounds, has perhaps led in the preparation and dissemination of the industrial type information. The industrial program has not been fully activated within SFOO. It is anticipated that in future years more information now being processed along with scientific information will be separately identified. Three SFO representatives are members of the AEC-wide Industrial Information Committee: Richard G. Elliott, Director of Information, SFOO; Dr. Ralph Carlisle Smith, Assistant Director, LASL; and H. J. Wallis, Superintendent, Staff Services, Sandia Laboratory. Al C3 ‘acea) In keeping with GM-CLA-2, "Classification Procedures for AEC Research Contractors," there is a continuing flow of information on unclassified areas of research. Specified offsite research requires no reference of information material to higher authority. Specified on-site research may be issued by scientific personnel concerned or published upon authorization by a Laboratory Director. SFOO, for instance, administers a contract with Uni-. versity of California at Los Angeles and the medical school's work is generally unclassi- fied; its reports receive wide dissemination within the AEC and in journal articles. Public dissemination may be through: an unclassified formal report; a paper ina scientific, professional, or trade journal; a paper with or without visual aids for presentation before a specialized group; etc. DOUIALD 49 AL