a i ane) Cue apna NP SCI / szenn in the production model which have delayed its approval as an operational item. Every effort is being made to resolve the troubles as rapidly as possible. A special team of about 65 per- sons at the Sandia Corporation is devoting full time to analyzing the difficulties in the fuze, and the manufacturer is assisting in the effort. In addition, a number of the fuzes has been turned over the the Armed Forces for independent study and analysis at each of the three service laboratories Laboratory, - the Army's Evans Signal the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Air Force's. Wright Air Development Center. Plant Facilities=/ 13. Construction work at the Pantex Ordnance Plant (Project ORANGE) June, near Amarillo, 1952. Texas, Follewing a is scheduled to be completed in shakedown period, scheduled to begin in September, full production is 1952. J 14, The expanded H.E. facilities at the Iowa Ordnance Plant (Project SUGAR) are scheduled to be completed in April, 1952, and this will about double the capacity of the portion of this plant used for AEC work, 15. By mid-1953 further capacity for high explosives produc- tion and non-nuclear assembly work will be required in addition to that being provided at the Iowa Ordnance and Pantex plants because of increased military requirements for non-nuclear assemblies of several models. The extent and proposed location - of the expanded capacity is presently under consideration, 1/See Appendix "B" of ules, in report for construction progress sched-