As the joint committee to study the future testing organization and the EPG
is being discussed
and the terms which they are to address set up under DMA, JTF-7,
and AFSWP in the first half of 1959, the two sub-committees were appointed and their
tasks laid on them.
The first, which has been mentioned numerous times,
is the
Jeffrey Sub-committee and the Sub-committee No. 2 is chaired by Col. Jack Ledford of TH
DASA, with the JTF-7 member Lt. Col. Phillip Loveless and the AEC member Lt. Col.
Frank O'Brien.
This committee is to address the "Shoot-When-Ready" concept and the
term “when ready ‘is defined as the capability whereby a facility can be made operational
in a time period consistent with the development and effects testing cycles.
Here are the minutes of the AFSWP instrumentation conference on Operation
Willow-ABMA, held at Huntsville on 21-22 April 1959.
The discussion certainly did 5 H
ee
address the use of Redstone missiles with pods for the Willow test.
Here is a report of a meeting in Huntsville, Alabama with the Army and various
Washington and other agencies representated, such as AFSWP, held on 21 and22 April
ane
1959.
armen,
-
eng
The meeting addressed the use of the Redstone missile in the future for high
altitude nuclear tests and design of such things as pods, telemetry, control, etc.
“fhe conclusions xxg include the fact that each missile will be equipped with from
6 to 8 pods each of which will have telemetry transmittors.
and contruction actually took place, I don't know.
Whether this design
R