DOCUMENT 4
                                 
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DISPOSITION FORM                   Unclassified

File No. DASAND 920      

Subject:  Negotiation of Contract

Thru:     CHIEF, DASA
          CHIEF OS STAFF, DASA
          CONTROLLER

From:     Deputy Chief of Staff Weapons Effects & Tests

Date:     29 October 1959

Comment No.:   LCDR Garrison/bdj77615

To:       Director of Logistics
          Attn:  Chief, Contract Management Branch

     1.   Reference is made to Research proposal entitled,
"Metabolic Changes in Humans Following Total Body Radiation,"
submitted by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine on
25 September 1958 to the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.

     2.   It is requested that Headquarters, Defense Atomic
Support Agency negotiate a contract with the college of Medicine,
University of Cincinnati to make a study as described in the
Cincinnati proposal with an additional requirement that the
supervisor should visit Dr. James Nixon, New York Memorial
Center, New York, early in the period covered by the contract to
coordinate the work undertaken under this proposal with the work
in progress there.  Similar work is being carried out at the
Baylor University.  The diversification is required to achieve
adequate results in a field of whole body radiations in humans.

     3.   The scope of work and procedure are described in the
proposal which is attached.  The duration of he contract should
cover a twelve-month time period beginning on or before 15
November 1959.

     4.   The estimated cost of the contract is $25,085.00 and is
acceptable to this division.

     5.   Accordingly, this memorandum may be considered
authority to the Comptroller to make an allotment for Research
Proposal, "Metabolic Changes in Humans Following Total Body
Radiation," University of Cincinnati, in the amount of
$25,085.00, properly chargeable to the Medical Division. 
Sufficient uncommitted funds are currently available to cover the
cost of this contract in program 1-10-52, Investigations of the
Effects of Radiation in Humans, Subtask I, Whole Body Radiation.

     6.   Citation of funds in the amount of $25,085.00 should be
made by the comptroller to the Contract Management Branch,
Logistics Division.
                                   David Lambert
                                   DAVID LAMBERT
                                   Captain USN
                                   Deputy Chief of Staff
                                   Weapons Effects and Tests

1 Incl
Application for contract
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