ome si." RMAT oo Study Group to the Chairman, AEC, requested the Commission to indicato the possible areas wherein the AEC contemplates or noeds additional military assistance. g. AEC reply dated 5 January 1952 from the General Manager, AEC, to Secretary of Joint Study Group stated that the Division of Military Appli-cation has furnished guidance to the AEC members of the Study Group. A copy ‘of DMA memorandum to AEC members is attached as Tab E. 7. An Interim Report of the Joint AEC-DOD Study Group was published and Gistrivuted on 27 November 1951 to the Chairman, ABC, and to the Chairman, Mice Affirmation of the conclusions and recomendations in the Interim Report was requested by the Study Group in the Icttor of transmittal forwarding the Report. Informal guidance to the members of the Group indicated it would be desirable to list the specific tasks on which the military might be asked to help, other , tasks in which military could help, and those DOD facilities which might be - ©) Or = . . ‘ 7” ° eee . ) applicd toward assisting the AEC in the non-nuclear portion of the weapons A z . ‘ : Cz. ‘ DISCUSSION . Present Participation of Dopartment of Defense 8. The present tasks boing performed by the Department of Defense for — the AEC, as indicated in Tab A, are being accomplished per negotiations C ‘\ C ) - ) between various matcriel departments of the separate Services and various ' agencies of the AEC. ) The selection of these activities to perform tasks has been on the basis of technical compotence for the specific problem. Where these tasks are developmental in nature for a specific weapon, they necossarily have to be intcgrated into the complete effort which is accomplishod by tho Sandia Corporation and the Sandia Weapons Development Board, There are areas such as the manufacture of HE components and detonators that fall into the sphere of influence of Los Alamos and for which that laboratory furnishos all the technical supervision rather than the Sandia Corporation. Other tasks, such as those performed by the Special Weapons Command in dropping weapons ‘at Salton Sca, are strictly of a service naturc. It has been the philosophy of the AEC to get competont agencies of the various Servicas to perform tasks in their specific areas where practical and desirable under the circumstances. | ernie tte @ | COPIED/DOE ANDIA RC t