-3- components was carried on by Sandia Laboratory of which James W. McRae is President. The contractor operating Sandia Laboratory is the Sandia Corporation, a subsidiary of Western Electric Company. Several other AEC contractors contributed materially to the operation. During the tests, Commissioners Strauss, Murray and Vance and Senator Pastore of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy visited the Proving Ground. Department of Defense officials, in addition to Secretary Wilson, who visited the Proving Ground during the tests, in- cluded Assistant Secretary of Defense (Applications Engineering) Frank D. Newbury, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Personnel and Reserve Forces) Albert Pratt and Assistant to the Secretary for Atomic Energy Herbert B. Loper. - 30 - 8256