XITIt 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 283 APWL/HO SWEH ~2 -003) aor