time.
This committee is of the opinion that this basic organization can
be adjusted to any functions, missions, responsibilities, and command
relationships that will be agreed upon in the final reconmendations of
the Joint Committee.
The manning for the test organization will be
dependent upon and will vary directly with the status of testing readiness,
however, it should be reduced to a minimsl planning staff during the
testing moratorium but should retain test planning continuity and the
necessary liaison channels to subordiuate and appropriate levels within
the DOD and the AEC.
A suggested organizationel chart is attached as Inclosure A
(Organization).
An eppropriate manning level table is atteched as
Inclosure B (Manning).
Consideration of woer2 the Test Support Organization should be
physically located can ve reduced to two factors.
The first, those
problems associated with policy, decisions, concepts and general requirements.
The second, those problems of technical requirements and
the details of communication and logistical support.
Experience has
clearly demonstrated the important and key role played by the Joint Task
Foree SEVEN in the past, with segard to the first factor.
Therefore,
location of the Test Support Organization in the Washineton D. C. area,
in close proximity to the AC and DOD, would seem appropriate and desirable.
However, it ia almost equally important that the Test Support
Organization be cognizant and capable of administering the second factor.
The establishment of a small field office in the Albuquerque, New Mexico
area staffed by eppropriate military technical, logistic, and communication
personnel working in concert with the scientific programs personnel of