Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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NRL LABSTRACTS
USRL -
continued
As a part of NRL, the new division's work will
remain essentially unchanged. Its mission, now
incorporated into the mission of NRL, is to conduct
research and development furthering the science of
underwater sound measurement, to provide to other
naval activities the resulting scientific knowledge,
new or improved t e c h n i q u e s , and standardized
instrumentation, and to provide facilities and ser­
vices for the accurate calibration of standard in­
strumentation and the wibiased determination of
performance characteristics of development, pro­
totype, or operational underwater sound devices
used by the Naval Establishment.
Several of NRL's key personnel, including Capt
T. B. Owen, the Director, and Dr. C. E. Cleeton,
the Associate Director of Research for Electronics,
have visited tbe facility to arrange for the transition.
The 10. 5 acres of LabOratory ground occupied
by USRD are located alongside Lake Gem Mary,
one mile south of the city limits of Orlando. It has
a personnel complement of 98 people: 97 civilian
and 1 military.
The Laboratory extends a hearty "Welcome
AbOard" to its new staff members and looks forward
to publication of articles about the new division.
CONTRACT SIGNED -
continued
for one additional year. Significant provisions con­
cerning promotion, s c he du ling of annual leave,
hours of work, and a grievance procedure with pro­
visions for advisory arbitration, are among the
seventeen articles included in the agreement.
This is the second agreement covering Labora­
tory employees negotiated within the framework of
the F e d e r al Employee-Management Cooperation
Program as set forth in Executive Order 10988.
The first agreement, covering all wigraded non­
supervisory employees at the Washington complex
of NRL, became effective on December 21, 1964.
Re-negotiation of the latter agreement is expected
to begin in the early fall of this year.
SAVINGS BOND CAMPAIGN -
continued
June. He said that the additional month is needed
to assure that every civilian and military employee
of the Federal Government throughout the world is
given an opportunity to sign up for regular pur­
chases of Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings
Plan.
The Postmaster General expressed confidence
that the campaign goal of 75 percent participation
by Federal employees will be achieved.
So far in NRL' s Savi.ngs Bond Campaign 94 people
have i n c r ea s e d their Bond allotments, and 157
people have signed up for Bond deductions, making
a total of 1,628 Bond savers. The Laboratory's
percentage of participation is now over 50.
This extra month affords you the ex c e 11 en t
opportunity of signing up for Bonds. Why not jump
on the "Bond Wagon" today?
Elected Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Richard Tousey, Head of the Rocket Spec­
troscopy Br an c h, Atmosphere and Astrophysics
Division, was elected a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Academy's
186th Annual Meeting held May 11 in Boston, Mass.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
was founded in Boston in 1780 by John Adams and
other revolutionary leaders of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony. Among the prominent members of the
past have been George Washington, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Horace Mann, Sir Winston Churchill, and
John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Tousey, who is a member of over a dozen
major scientific and professional societies, is now
a Fellow in four of them. Previously he had been
elected Fellow by the American Physical Society,
the Optical Society of America, and the American
Geophysical Union. Moreover, Dr. Tousey's work
here has earned him numerous special honors and
awards, including the Navy Award for Distinguished
Achievement in Science (1963), the Henry Draper
Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1963),
and the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society
of America (1960).
Scrap Material Wasn't Scrapped
Thefollowing items were evidently mistaken for
scrap material and were picked up in Building 49.
The equipment should be returned so that formal
transfer procedures may be followed.
•Pulse Generator, H.P. Mod. 212A, Ser. 549,
P.A. 243091
• Pulse Generator, H.P. Mod. 212A, Ser. 4496,
P.A. 248572
• Flow Meter,Burton,Mod. 200, Ser. 200-6069,
P .A. 245683