The Data Systems Project Office
The Los Angeles group had a contract to develop a facility for handling the large amount of information that would be available when the then very secret reconnaissance satellites were deployed. By about 1958 this had progressed to a point where they decided a simulation laboratory should be set up in Denver. I had consulted with the group on occasions and became more active as the laboratory was being set up. One of my activities was to demonstrate that stereoscopic vision was possible and useful from pairs of photographs that showed no perspective, as was anticipated for the expected very long focal-length satellite photography (many had been skeptical of the possibility).
About a year later this contract was canceled and the Denver facility was sold. (I learned later that the Rome Air Development Center, where the contract was from, had not been authorized by the user agency to develop the system and they were very embarrassed over it -- a General at the company had sold them on the idea but hadn't covered all the bases.) R.W. wasn't about to get any more contracts from RADC.
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