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Section C-7 Naval Architecture 



J. T. Tate, Chairman , 



Section C-8 Camouflage 



A. C. Hardy, Chairman (physicist, M.I.T.) 

 Section C-9 Sound Control 



P. M. Morse, Chairman (physicist, M.I.T.) 

 Committee on Mine Warfare 



J. T. Tate, Chairman 



Division D 



Alan T. Waterman (physicist, Yale University) became a Vice-Chairman 

 of the Division and Section D-M with Melville Eastham (electrical engineer. 

 General Radio Co.) as Chairman v^^as created to supervise the model shop 

 established in connection with the Radiation Laboratory. 



Committee on Uranium 



This committee was reorganized as a Section on Uranium with L. J. 

 Briggs continuing as Chairman. It passed out of the jurisdiction of NDRC in 

 December 194 1. 



Division F 



This new division was established in November 1942, shortly before the 

 reorganization of the NDRC, with C. G. Suits (physicist, General Electric 

 Co.) as Chairman, to supervise a program of radar countermeasures. 



Outside the regular organization of NDRC, the Chairman appointed 

 ad hoc committees from time to time at the suggestion of the Advisory 

 Council. The reports of those committees influenced the work of NDRC; 

 and in two cases — metallurgy and camouflage — had a direct bearing upon 

 the way in which the Committee organized to handle its work. 



Distribution of Contracts 



NDRC was a highly decentralized organization. Specific fields of activity 

 had been assigned to the several divisions and sections and the initiative as 

 to the placing of contracts in each field rested with the division or section 

 concerned. The central office had distributed to the Division Chiefs in the 

 first few weeks of NDRC operation a loose leaf volume listing specialized 

 academic facilities which might be available for NDRC work. As additional 

 facilities came to the attention of the central office, information concerning 

 them was disseminated to divisions which might make use of them. 



With the initiative as to the selection of contractors left to the divisions 

 and sections, it would have been remarkable had the over-all distribution of 

 contracts exactly followed any path which might have been laid out in 



