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CHAPTER VII

CURRENT STATUS AND COST SUMMARY (U)

(U) As noted in the chapter dealing with organization and management, the HERCULES Project Office was discontinued effective 4 January 1971 and its residual functions were assigned to the newly formed Air Defense Special Items Manager Office (ADSIMO). The staff of the new Systems Engineering and Integration Office, Directorate for Research, Development, Engineering, & Missile Systems Laboratory, was integrated with ADSIMO personnel.¹

Engineering Support

(U) Concurrently with deprojectization of the HERCULES, plans were formulated for the phaseout of contractual engineering support and the provision of MICOM in-house support in three phases. In Phase I, completed on schedule in October 1971, MICOM assumed responsibility for engineering support of the HERCULES missile, launch eguipment, test equipment, simulator, and auxiliary battery acguisition radar, less current design effort on SAMCAP, SILOFAB,^* and the AN/TPX-46.^** Under Phase II, planned for completion by 30 September 1972, MICOM would begin supporting SAMCAP, SILOFAB, AN/TPX-46-related items, and the HIPAR. Engineering support responsibility for HERCULES ground guidance and radar equipment would be assrrmed by MICOM sometime after 1 July 1973.²

Deactivation of HERCULES Batteries

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Disposition of Equipment

(U) The HERCULES ground equipment located at deactivated sites was returned to one of three Army depots--Letterkenny, Pueblo, or Tooele. Being excess to Army requirements, most of it was offered to International Logistics Field Office customers and other government agencies through the MIMEX^* and Project PLUS^** procedures. In FP 1971, for example, the Directorate for Material Management redeployed five AERCULES systems under MIMEX procedures, and, in FY 1970-71, accepted 53 foreign military sales cases for a total of $17,953.868.³

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* The side lobe fast blanking (SILOFAB) modification was being designed to counter, or blank out, certain types of repeater janrmers that might be used against the HIPAR. MICOM Hist Sum, FY 1971, p. 63.

** A component of the improved Mark XII aircraft identification system, the AN/TPX-46 was to serve as a link between the HERCm.ES system and the aircraft transponders. Hist Rept, NE PM, FY 1968, pp. 3-4. Hist Div File. 1 See above, p. 33.

2 (1) Hist Rept, ADSPIO, FI 1971, p. 2. Hist Div File. (2) FONECON, M. T. Cagle w Merlin D. Berg, Chf, Frog Mgt Ofc, ADSIMO, 17 May 72.

* Major Items for MAP from Long Supply or Excess.

** Procedures for Long Supply Asset Utilization Screening.

3 Hist Rept, Mat Mgt Dir, FY 1971, pp. 10-11, 19-20. Hist Div File.

4 Data extracted from NH Sys Configuration Status Rapt, Maint Engrg Div, Dir for Maint; and supplemental report supplied by Ray DeCoursey, Mat Mgt Dir.

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