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aircraft furnished for the increased Technical Applications Center
mission.’
Technical Applications Center officials detailed a new "Single
Manager" concept.
(a)
Under this plans?
Air Weather Service mission directives were to be amended to
include functional responsibility for weather reconnaissance, air sampling,
and daily surveillance,
(b)
Air Weather Service would be responsive to weather reconnaissance
requirements of appropriate Air Force and defense agencies,
(c)
Air Weather Service would be responsive to the sampling require-
ments of Technical Applications Center, the Atomic Energy Commission, the
national space agency and such other governmental agencies as might be
involved in approved government sampling programs,
(d)
When possible Air Weather Service would be responsive to other
weather or dualutilization requirements of other Department of Defense
agencies providing no conflict with basic mission responsibility was
involved,
(e)
Air Weather Service would be the single point of contact for the
programming and management of all aerial sampling requirements.
(f)
All aircraft, manpower and specialized equipment associated
with the world-wide air sampling and weather reconnaissance functions .
would be assigned to and controlled by Air Weather Service, with the
following exceptions:
U-2 aircraft, manpower, and specialized U-2
equipment remained assigned to Strategic Air Command,
However, when required in the air sampling functional mission, these
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