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
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
{pages 214, 215, 216 - Nike launcher area photos - Useful images are
available on the Redstone Arsenel web site}
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