make the measurements and were interested in the results, details were worked out and the result is the program as it will be presented today. After the RDB approved this program they went to the Secretary of Defense and asked them to release the money (Mive million dollars of R&D wine, Then there was a change of administration with a new econanic » and it became necessary to resubmit the proposal. At the moment t ogran is again in the RDB office; it 1s not thought they will review it galp,but will probably send it back recommending the money be made available | On the other hand, the DOD cannot count the dollars in hand until thé iget them. money There is a certain amount of so-called preliminary planning can be committed now for projects which are certain to be carried out/mW (It weit appear that the only thing we can do today is to go ahead on the assumption-that the projects will get their money, and do the best we can if some of! them do not.) i i The progran’ifWiéludes two projects which were not approved by the RDB in December but were left| tentative pending more information. (AFSWP specifically earmarked these tieb|projects as being open to question.) One was the long-range detection program, on which approval was left pending until the evaluation of the programs, this work. 0 February. heat next CAE meeting which ‘was The question here concerned because of the tight security surrounding S Sat The other project was the courmtermeasures by using two d would be fully equipped with all ps proposal to evaluate atomic warfare rated Liberty ships, one of which devices which have been worked out to protect and decontaminate Naval veSsel#j the other one not so equipped. They would position these outside the blast ge but within the range where they would be surely contaminated. The proposal was not approved the first time, but was resubmitted with more details was then approved by the CAE. This, then, should be added to the program de-driginally approved. further discussion of this project, see bobs pelow. ) (For The rest of the afternoon was devoted Yo gq¢ing through the programs, project by project, with Kingsley canducting the idiscussion. He explained that he only got into this last Thursday, so would call on his colleagues where necessary. As stated above, the program was dev last fall, requesting the services to submit their concepts of programs they needed, the results being worked over by AFSWP, consultdzig with the services and the various laboratories, and boiled down into an lihtegrated program. The outline presented today was predicate] on four types of shots: surface bursts on the ground, in deep water, and in the lagoon, and an air burst. pa J |