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Division 14 



Title: Radar 



Alfred L. Loomis, Chief 



Section 14. i R. C. C. Model Shop (December 9, 1942 — April 6, 1944) 



Melville Eastham, Chief 

 Section 14.2 Navigation (December 9, 1942 — April 6, 1944) 



Melville Eastham, Chief 



Division 14 served as the focal point of research and development in the 

 microwave radar field. In addition to fundamental research on and basic 

 development of radar, the division devoted a major part of its effort to the 

 design of equipment to meet particular military problems and to the more 

 effective use of equipment already made. The division supervised a radar 

 laboratory established in England which worked in close co-operation with 

 the Eighth Air Force. A substantial part of the funds allocated to the divi- 

 sion between 1943 and 1945 is accounted for by transfers to OSRD from the 

 Army and the Navy for the procurement of radar equipment which the divi- 

 sion could obtain more rapidly than the Services. 



Authorizations: 



January i, 1943, to June 30, 1943 $ 7,680,750.00 



July I, 1943, to June 30, 1944 $45,283,850.00 



July I, 1944, to June 30, 1945 $51,265,300.00 



July I, 1945, to February 28, 1946 (estimated) $14,000,000.00 



July I, 1945, to June 30, 1946 (actual) $ 3^36^9-3^ 



Division 15 



Title: Radio Co-ordination 

 C. G. Suits, Chief 

 J. H. Moore, Deputy Chief 



The work of Division 15 fell into two general fields: developing counter- 

 measures against enemy radio communications, radar and guided missiles; 

 and determining the susceptibility of American equipment to enemy jam- 

 ming or countermeasures and pointing ways to designing less susceptible 

 equipment. Countermeasures took the form of "jamming" (sending out 

 signals of such strength and character as to mask the wanted signals) or 

 the form of a decoy or false signal of some kind. The division supervised 

 the operation of a laboratory in England working in continuous contact 

 with the Eighth Air Force. 



