February 4, 1963

February 4, 1963

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MANAGEMENT

Mcnamara Details Defense Buying, R&d

By George C. Wilson12 min

AVIONICS

Thin-film Transistor Research Pressed

By Barry Miller9 min

MANAGEMENT

Navy Revising Maintenance Management

By Donald E. Fink9 min

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MANAGEMENT

Mcnamara Details Defense Buying, R&d

Washington—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara gave the House Armed Services Committee a detailed explanation last week of what militan-hardware the Defense Dept, plans to buy with the $16.725 billion in new procurement funds requested for Fiscal 1964 and how it expects to spend the $7.262 billion in new money for research, development, test and evaluation.

By George C. Wilson12 min

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AVIONICS

Thin-film Transistor Research Pressed

By Barry Miller9 min

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MANAGEMENT

Navy Revising Maintenance Management

Washington—Integrated maintenance management, a Navy-developed program aimed at improving the maintainability of complex modern weapons systems, is undergoing final revision here at the Bureau of Weapons Maintenance Programs Branch.

By Donald E. Fink9 min

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MANAGEMENT

West Germany Seeks Shift in Nato Role

Bonn—West German air force planners hope for a shift in roles and missions within North Atlantic Treaty Organization to free their service from its NATO responsibility for maintaining a manned interceptor force and assign it primarily to a strike and reconnaissance task.

By Cecil Brownlow7 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Radiation Belt Intensity Dispute Grows

New York—Crux of the disagreement still existing in scientific circles over the precise results of the U. S. July 9 Starfish high-altitude nuclear test seems to be in the threshold of sensitivity of the radiation-measuring instruments on board the various satellites which sampled the artificial radiation belt created by the blast, according to Dr. Walter L. Brown.

By Warren C. Wetmore7 min

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AVIONICS

Haystack Will Advance Radar Precision

First elements of Air Force’s new Haystack facility, the most advanced installation for spacecraft tracking, space communications and radar astronomy in the non-Communist world are going into place at Lincoln Laboratory’s Millstone Hill facility near Tyngsboro, Mass.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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MANAGEMENT

Dod,nasa Study Common System for Rating Company Performance

New York—Common standard for a contractor performance rating system is being sought by Defense Dept, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a step in making such rating a key element in evaluation of future research and development proposals.

By William H. Gregory6 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Large Reusable Booster Designs Studied

Los Angeles—High costs of post-Apollo lunar and interplanetary missions will require that large, recoverable boosters developed for these missions be reused up to 10 times, according to a design feasibility study by Douglas Aircraft Co. for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

By C. M. Plattner6 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Independence of Four Territories May Give East African Airways New Problems

Nairobi, Kenya—East African Airways is entering a period of retrenchment and consolidation in preparation for political and economic problems that may arise from the independence of its four territorial owners—Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar.

By Robert H. Cook5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Florida Traffic Reflects January Pickup

Carriers hopeful of record passenger volumes after early slump due to cold weather, Cuban crisis fears.

By James R. Ashlock5 min

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