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DRAFT                         24 May 1945

MEMORANDUM FOR: Dr. Edward L. Bowles

SUBJECT: Committee on Air Navigation and Traffic Control; Interim Report

1. [[underline]] Authority [[/underline]] [[underline]] and [[/underline]] [[underline]] Policy [[/underline]]. Acting on instruction from General Arnold, the Committee on Air Navigation and Traffic Control was established by Dr. E. L. Bowles, as Special Consultant to the Commanding General, Army Air Forces. The primary objective of this Committee is to aid in the formulation and activation of an orderly program of research, development and evaluation of equipment and procedures to effect a continuous transition from present methods of operation to flight operations that are essentially independent of weather and darkness. The Committee will function solely in an advisory and monitoring capacity and will depend on existing agencies, both military and civil, having normal functions and responsibilities in this field for implementation of its recommended plans and programs. It will be the policy of the Committee to initiate and support such projects of an interim character designed to offer improvement in current operations or those of the immediate future, provided they form part of an orderly, continuous program from present day practice to an ultimate, integrated system. Broad research programs shall be supported or recommended whenever it is clear that the results of such programs may provide information necessary for the attainment of an ultimate system and that such information will not be forthcoming from the normal program of evolution from present to future techniques.

2.  [[underline]] Object [[/underline]] [[underline]] of [[/underline]] [[underline]] Report [[/underline]]. This is an interim report intended to summarize the current views of the Committee resulting from preliminary studies.Its objectives are threefold: first, to propose an analysis of the broad problem that will facilitate clear thinking and discussion; second, to set forth in limited number some of the major issues upon which there is doubt or controversy; third, to propose certain research and development programs that may lead to an answer to