New Directorate FormedOrienton At Aerospace Genter

Vol. XlX, No.25

DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY AEROSPACE CENTER Announcement of the formation of a new Deputy Director forSystems and Techniques, was made by Center Director, Col.James St. Clair, during the November 30 staff meeting.December 9,1977

Some of the members of the Old Newsboys Day sales force gatherin the Lindbergh Room of lhe Cenler Dining Hall to counl theirmorning sales and warm up with a cup of coffee. This year selrecords as Cenier employees contributed more than $1400 to lhecharitable drive.

At South Annex were: Al traditionally collected in their localWuenscher, Carol Gaffney, communities but contributed thePaulette Martin, Cindy Meyer, collections to the Center's total.Debbie Rusan and Bernice Hen-dricks. Generous Center employees

have been increasing their con-Bill Kolnik, John Hopkins, tributions st.eariilv ovcr thc pasl.Connie llume,,foe Mullins,.lohn lcw yeurs. ln lll?4 llrr, lotnl wrrsNr^.,tll^ ,.-,

The establishment of the new organizational element will be'aqgomplishud.!_V rrext Tuesday. The Systems and Techniquesdiiectorate wili be composed of the' Advanced f".t

"oirgyDivision now within the Plans, Requirements and TechnolofyDirectorate and an Acquisition Systems Division to 6'"established.

With the movement of Ad-vanced Technology the Plans,Requirements and TechnologyDirectorate will become Plansand Requirements.

The change in organization isbeing accomplished to makethe Aerospace organizationalstructure more compatiblewith the headquarters. Similarchanges are being made in theHvdro/Topographic Centerstructure.

DMA Director, Lt. Gen.Abner Martin, in a letter to the

Members of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff and the Defense ScienceAdvisory Board toured the Centerlast week to learn more about theAerospace Center programs withemphasis on the cruise missilesupport.

Visiting were RAdm EdwardBurkhalter, USN, a member of theJ-3 staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;Dr. Mark Epstein of the DefenseScience Board; Dr. Donald IIicks,l)cl'cnsc S<'icn<:o Iloar<i and IromNtlrlhrttp (1ot'p,; (lttplititr llrrt't'y

Centers directing theorganizational changes talkedof the growth in the emphasiswhich we must give to ad-vancement of technology andour interface with acquisitionsystems developers. Thechange in organizationalstructure will better allow theagency to meet the userdemands.

At presstirne personnelactions relating to the estab-lishmenk of the new elementhad not been announced.

Naval Operations Office; CDR.Richard Emmett, USN and Maj.Larry Tinberg, USA, from theJoint Chiefs of Staff J-3 staff . Alsoaccompanying the group while inSt. Louis was Brig Gen Ames Albroof the Defense Mapping Agency.

Following an overview briefingon the Center's operation whichwas presented by AerospaceCenter I)irect,or, Coloncl Sl.. Clair,lho grollp le<'r'ivt'rl rk'lrrilt dlrrir'l'irrgs o!! l)l,ognlns ol' llrr.ir

Joint Ghiefs of Staff

Uisitors Tour Genter

NewsboyS &eak All Rec6rdsContributions Top $1 100

Aerospace Center Old NewsboysDay volunteers set two records thisyear with number of participantsand amount collected. The 32participants collected a grand totalof $1,460.50.

Center personnel, through theirgenerous contributions, havehelped to make the holidayshappier for the many handicapped,disadvantaged, and needy childrenwho benefit from the moniescollected that day. Hundreds ofchildren's agencies in themetropolitan area have received

, funds from the more than $1.6

,r million raised by Old Newsboys\ Day volunteers since 1957. Center

f volunteers have added over $12.0001 to the fund.

, The amount collected at 2nd

\ Street was $984.77 with South

\ Annex adding a record $272.65. AtIthe two outside locations $203.08was 'collected and added to the

f Center's contributions.I Participants at 2nd Street in-i cluded: Colonel James H. St. Clair,i Colonel Robert Burns, Lawrencel Ayers, Frank Aufmuth, Henryi Bauer, John Flaherty, Louis, Foster, Harold Hopper, AndreaKowal, Linda Kranefuss, HiramLloyd, Dottie Meltabarger, BillMoran, Richard Rapp, FrankRoth, Donald Riggs, George

Shalhoob, Eileen Sinnwell, RobertThompson and Al West.

Over 100 American Society of1 Photogrammetry members andI guests attended the November 15

1 meeting to hear General Ames(. Albro, deputy director, Plans and./ Requirements, DMA speak on "the

,z Challenges Confronting MilitaryMapping."

: In his introduction General Albro

" . pointed out that in the past thermapping, charting and geodesyproducers were able to giveadequate support to the militaryusers. This was possible because ofthe slow pace and longevity of thewars. However, due to modernadvances in firepower andmobility in the battlefield, theMC&G producers will no longerhave time to make or revise maps.

Fortunately, the advance inmilitary technology has been

t paralleled by advances in\opographic capabilities, in theacquisition of high quality aerialphotography and, in theautomation of much of the map-making process. However, thetechnological advance mostsignificant to the support ofmodern weapons systems is thecapability to routinely producedigital topographic data.

This digital topographic data isrecorded on magnetic tape and canbe divided into four classes:

elevation, cultural, natural andspecial topographic data.

Digital elevation data are a gridof elevations tied to a map coor-dinate system. With appropriatecomputer sof tware, digitalelevation data can be used forrapid generation and display ofterrain profiles or contours,terrain masks, line of sight, slopesand omni-directional perspective-type views of the terrain.

All features on a standardtopographic map, except relief,may be classified as either culturalor natural features. Culturalfeatures include roads, railroads,buildings and other man-madefeatures. Natural features com-monly digitized include vegetation,rivers and lakes.

Digital special topographic datarefers to those elevations, cultural,and natural features normally notshown on a standard map.Examples of special topographicfeatures are vegetation densities,road and bridge classifications,soil types, stream depths and rateof flow. Elements such as thesemay be digitized individually orcombined to depict suchcalculations as cross-countrymovement, speeds, and lines ofcommunications capacities. Alldigital topographic data and the

products generated from them canbe displayed in hard copy oroverlay form, or they can bepresented on cathode-ray tubescreens.

DMA is already actively in-volved in defining and/orproviding digital support to anumber of DoD weapon systems.One of the systems the Generaldiscussed was the cruise missile.This system requires digitizedelevation data which includesparts of the digital land masssimulator data base to be used in

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AD Canned

Goods DriveLinda Carter and Carol Gaffney

of the Aeronautical InformationDepartment recently held aThanksgiving Canned Goods Drivefor the Little Sisters of the poor.

There were generous donationsof canned goods, clothes andmoney. The Sisters were veryexcited to see the many boxes ofdonations that the AD employeeshad given.

They thanked all those involved.The Home for 250 elderly residentsis located at 3225 N. Florissant.

Nevlre and June Bil;; -;;; iG,'ilil;;^irr;;; ii,inti, ir#i: M;ii;i;.'members of two carpools who have and this year g1460.

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Challenges ln Miliary Mapping DrlscussedBAG Thanksgiving Boxes

,{ By Een. Alhro at ASP MeetingGiven to fuea Families

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Members of the Black Awareness Group of the Aerospace Centerbegin packing boxes of food thal were dislribuled lo needyfamilies in ihe soulard area near the Aerospace center. A total of35 boxes of food, 25 of which included lhe turkey wilh all thetrimmings were packed and distributed. The members of theBAG organization expressed their thanks to all Center employeeswho donaled items lo the Thanksgiving Day proiect.

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ilil iliary M apping ChallengesContinued From Pg. 1

the air, sea, and ground launchedcruise missiles. Elevation.tapes ofpre-selected areas along the routeto the target are stored in thevehicle and correlated bYbarometric and radar altimetersagainst actual elevation dataacquired inflight. This correlationupdates and corrects the missilesinertial navigation sYstem, whilepermitting flight at sufficiently lowlevels to escape enemy detection.Other systems briefly discussedwere the Firefinder, Pershing,Patriot, and DLMS sYstems.

MC&G producers' suPPortingdata bases will have to strugglewith the assembly andmanagement of an MC&G database that could approach 1015(bits) of information in size. technology. Another importantFortunately there are new factor is simplicity. This meanstechniques that may provide despite the sophistication of theassistance. These include such 5y51srns they need to be easilythings as high density digital deployable, replaceable,storage on tape, digital ima$e lspsirable and operable in the realholographic mass storage, world environment.digitally controlled laser imaget"itifi"ir, recording and display In summary, Gen. Albro stated,

devices, itigtt resotution eleCtron "As military operations phase

beam recoiders, and associative upward from the slow and

array eomputer processing. protracted conflicts we have

Al[hougtr- thesi technical ad- known in the past to the high in-uan"em"its will assist the MC&G tensity conflicts of relatively shorteffort, other factors must be duration made possible by -theconsidered. For example, cost will awesome capabilities of modernbe a cpnsideration. With less real arms' I submit that beingdollars (inflation) in the budget, it responsive to this environment iswill be necessary to increase the greatest challenge confrontingproductivity to offset the cost of the military MC&G community'"

From the Black book:

It hardly seems that it couldbe approaching Christmas, but ifI'm [o believe the calendar then Isuppose the annual letter to Santais due (if I want to find thingsunder the tree). So for what it'sworth, here goes:

Dear Santa:Things haven't changed much in

the Public Affairs Office during thepast year. You'll find the samefaces, some perhaPs a little olderlooking than before, but never-theless belonging to the samepeople as last year. And otrr wantshaven't changed much either' Westill need a dictionary that spellswords the same way we do andtypewriters that print the correctletter regardless of which keY onemight strike. Miss Wisneski islooking for a pair of shoes that willmake her feel like she's walking onair. Seems all the walking aroundwith our college tour grouPs has

corn growing somewhere besidesthe fields of Iowa. Miss Greshamcould do with a few victories for thehockey Blues or if that isnltpossible just maYbe one of those,"come over here" smiles fromnumber 26 or maYbe even a returnof that Lefley fellow from Finland.As for me, the list includes twoitems-a favorable rePort from theinspection team now in the officeand tickets to the suPerbowl to see

the Cards play. But most of all ourlist requests lots of health andhappinessChristmasthrough.

everyone atall the year

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November Honor RoIl35 YEARS

Ernst A. Rebesberger, Clarence J. Litteken, Edward D.Lurton.

30 YEARSJohn A. Dooley, Raymond J. Forthaus, Joseph M. Shinn, WilliamR. Hantack, Ernie B. Jones.

25 YEARSRobert E. Diekemper, Charles E. Woolf, Kenneth D. McManus,James S. Raby, Charles E. Dierker, Robert Gibson, Ralph E.Heath.

20 YEARSLeroy E. White, Vern A. Hewitt, Jr., Harry K. Wright, John M-Hillestad.

15 YEARSEleanor L. Dicus, Lohris G. Jenkins, John A. Mitchem, JosephFrance Jr., Marshall E. McGill, Jr., Donald J. Edgar, GarlandW. Noll, Thomas B. Sellers, Charles D. Hall, John D. Dawson,Barbara A. Speiser.

IO YEARSDavid W. Boone, Alonzo O. Acklin, Melvin Harris, Frans T. VanVoorst, Kent T. Kenniston.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE RATINGDoyle S. Edwards, Earl J. Koenig, David L. McCanna.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE RATING/QUALITY SALARY INCREASE

Dorothy M. Hyduke, Judith M. Fizer, Judith E. David, GregoryJ. Kuehl, Dennis W. Rumley, Curtis A. Martin, Barbara A'Purlee.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE RATING/SUSTAINED SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE

Susan M. Gligros, James M. Stephens, Andrew G. Lewandowski,William R. Oubishar, Joe S. Thompson, John E. Henry, Leroy N'Cooney, Geraldine M. Lorkowski, Charles E. Woolf.

QUALITY SALARY INCREASECharles E. Youngsberg, Rose M. Mulnik, Herbert L' Sutter,Percilla D. Ferguson.

SUSTAINED SUPERIOR PERFORMANCEPaul J. Fincannon, Frank M. Lehr, Michael J. Greenwald, JohnJ. Eggers, Robert W. Krask, Flynn J. Stubblefield, Linda M'Seebiis, George H. Keetch, Norman W. Doering, Richard C'

King, Mabel L. Parker, Richard S. Hallowell, Bartley E.Higgins, Joseph E. Statum, Jr., Debbie J. Reitz, Roger H.Kinney, Douglas R. Nolte, Leonard F. Haack, Raymond J.Forthaus, Bryan L. Williams, Charles A. Bush'

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

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during an embossing training session al the Kansas City Office.Working on the proiect are Ethel Harraman and PamelaEngland. Ayers visited the Office during November for staffbriefings and orientalion on lhe organization and review ofproduction status.

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Mary Patricia Wylie, daughterof Karl Wylie, Jr., ADDNC, hasrecently been selected for mem-bership in Who's Who amongStudents in American Colleges andUniversities.

Mary Pat is a senior, majoring inPolitical Science and Historv, atRockhurst College, Kansas City,Mo.

Miss Wylie is President ofRockhurst's Chapter of Alpha PhiOmega, the National ServiceFraternity. She is also a memberof Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit HonorSociety; and a member of PhiSigma Tau, Honor Society forPhilosophy.

The ORIENTOR is an officialnewspaper, published bi-weekly onFriday by and for the personnelof the Defense Mapping AgencyAerospace Center, at St. Louis,Missouri, as authorized by DoDlnstruction 5120.4. Opinions ex-pressed herein do not necessarilyrepresent those of the DoD.

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Page2 Orientor December 9,1977 a Elnight Holiday

30 Years Gompleted 9n Sgr*pathg lUew Cover

For Hogan, ShinnHAROLD J. HOGAN,' ADDP,

reached the 30 year mark on Oc-tober 25. His Federal career beganwith his enlistment in the NavY in1942. After receiving his dischargein 1946 he attended the UniversitYof Missouri at Columbia.

He resumed his Federal careerin November 1950 as a clerk at theMilitary Records Center. Hetransferred to the Center in March1951 as a carto aid. His service hascontinued in the AeronauticalInformation Division to his presentposition of air navigationspecialist.

He is also active in the Air ForceReserves and in 1962 he receivedhis commission under the Out-standing Airman Program beingpromoted from M/Sgt to CaPtain.He currently holds the rank of Lt'Colonel in the Air Force In-telligence Service.

JOSEPH M. SHINN, ACIB,reached the 30 year mark onNovember 17. He served in theNavy as a radioman from 1944 to1946.

He resumed his Federal careerat the U.S. Navy HydrograPhicOffice in Washington, D.C. inFebruary i94B where he wasassigned to the PhotogrammetrYDivision. He participated in FieldSurveys in the Arctic in 1955 and1956. He transferred to ourWashington Office in early 1957

assigned to the Chart ResearchDivision. Three months later hemoved to St. Louis with theDivision.

He is presently assigned as a

supervisory cartograPher inImagery Analysis Division, DLMS.

Hogan

ROBERT L.MESSINGER,SDDP, was killedNovember 24,1977, in an auto-mobile accident.

A cartograph-er, he had been at DMAAC sinceApril 30, 1953. He was assigned asACIC's Liaison Officer in London,England for four years from 1963 to1967. Most recentlv he wasassigned to the Scientific DataDepartment.

He is survived by his wife, Rose,PPC, and son Michael.

Services were held on November28, at Hillcrest Abbey.

Eight Women

Receive KCO

AwardsEight women of the Kansas City

Office were recognized for out-standing achievement in self-development during ceremoniescelebrating Federal Women's Dayrecently.

The awardees included TreviaMiller, Dorothy Hoopes, DeeBishop, Mary Quiroz, GayleFoster, Susan Myers, ThelmaPoole and Anna Wolfrum.

Special recognition letters werepresented by Sylvia Jackson, DMAFederal Women's ProgramCoordinator, and Charlene Gill,DMAAC FWPC.

Highlights of the day included apictorial display of women inDMA, and an audio visualpresentat,ion on l'trdcrul wom(tn.

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For Sundid

The historic sundial on thegrounds of lhe 2nd Slreet in-stallation recently received anew plastic dome to protecl itscopper surface from weather-ing. The dial was recognizedas significant historic land-mark in special ceremoniesby the Daughters of the Amer-ican Revolulion this past Oclo-ber. The dial dates back to themid-1800's.

James Abernathy, ACT, and hisl'amily are current,ly hosting unoxchenge atudent l'rom Soeln.

Krekemeyer

LuncheonA retirement luncheon will be

held December 28 for MathildaKrekemeyer. The location will bethe rathskeller of Schober's WineRestaurant, Lindbergh, South ofHighway 55.

The smorgasbord will begin at11:30 a.m. at a cost of $4.00 perperson.

Reservations should be made byDecember 22nd,. Contact ArtMueller for further details, ext.4528.

SizemoreHonored

Aerospace Center employeeJohn Sizemore was recentlyhonored by the Lewis and ClarkChapter of the Order of DeMolay ofCahokia as an individual outside ofDeMolay who exemplified theideas of the Order in makingcontributions to the youth of thecommunity.

The award is the HonoraryLegion of Honor Degree.

Sizemore has been active in thework of the school district in thearea, having served on the Boardof Education.

Service. She will be attending theOakvllle Senior tllgh School durlnghar voer'a slav,

Potential Employees Tour'

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presentation on Federal women. family are currently hosting an Oakville Senior High School duringexchange student from Spain, her year's stay.according to information received The Abernathy's have twoby the Orienlor. children, Cindy and Brett, who

The student, Miss Maria Mon- joined with their parents intoya, is sponsored by the Oakville welcoming the exchange student toChapter of the American Field their home and school.

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Use fire sqfe lrees, lurn off tree lights when leoving home.

Use {ire sofe decoroiions.

Don't use foulty tree lights, check for breoks in cords, plugs or

conneclions.

Keep bose of "live" lree in woter

Hove fire extinguisher hondy.

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HAVE A HAPPY HOTIDAY! ''

Sludents of Easlern lllinois University, Charlesion, lll. are shownreceiving a briefing by Ray Steudlner in the Camera Room aspart of their tour of the Aerospace Center. This is the fifth con-secutive year lhat the carlography class of the universily hastoured the Center. Most of the sludenls in the group are geologymaiors. ln addition to printing lhe tour also included the missionand products briefing and a lour of lhe Aerospace CartographyDeparlment. Professor Waller N. Duffetl of the Department ofGeography & Geology, accompanied lhe group on their visit.

A new Civil Service Commission(CSC) ruling permits disclosure ofa civil servant's name, position,title, grade, salary and dutystation. This information wasformerly protected by the PrivacyAct, but the commission decided

that, since it was public in-formation in the past, any personcould receive this informationunder the Freedom of InformationAct. Similar information con-cerning military may also bedisclosed on request.

Linda Oeser, FWPC for theKansas City Office, introduced theawardees during the ceremonies.

Betiremen8Recent retirements, for which no

information was received by theOrienlor, include:

JACK E. WELLS, ADDND,retired effective October 7, justtwo months after reaching the 30year mark. He was an aeronauticalinformation specialist and hadbeen at DMAAC the past 18 years.

RAYMOND E. MASSIE, GD.CAB, also retired just two monthsafter reaching the 30 year mark,effective October 21. All but sixmonths of his toLal Federal ser-vice was at DMAAC where he wasassigned as a cartographer.

FRANCES H. SIDARS" CMFA,disability retirement was effectedon October 26, with 26 years, 8months total Federal serviee. Anaccounting technician, she hadbeen at the Center the past 22 t/2years.

New Commission Ruling

Savings Bonds Make

Great Christmas Gifts

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rTD NEWgEtrgg D6g gEtrNtrg

Marge Wisneski, Center coordinator for the Old Newsboys Day,lalks over previous Newsboys Days with George Shalhoob asColonel St. Clair and Colonel Burns complete the counting of theircolleclions and lake a well deserved coffee break.

At the Northwest Gate to 2ndStreel Louis Fosler caughl youwhether you walked or drove.

Second Slreel pariicipants, from lefl lo righl, are Colonel JamesH. 5t. Clair, Colonel Robert Burns, Al West, Andrea Kowal, DonRiggs, Henry Bauer behind Dotlie Meltabarger, Louis Foster,Robert Thompson, Lawrence Ayers, Bill Moran, Frank Rolh,Linda Kranefuss, John Flaherty, Hiram Lloyd, Frank Aufmulh,Eileen Sinnwell, Harold Hopper, Richard Rapp and GeorgeShalhoob.

Colonel Burns leams up wilh Dottie Meltabarger to catch CaplainDenison of lhe Communicalion Detachment.

Bill Moran selling at lhe maingate had a bonus for hisbuyers, in addition to lhe paperfront gate buyers received Sl.Louis Blues photo posters. Billis an official in the NalionalHockey League.With a chorus line like this how could anybody pass up the Old

Newsboys edition of the Globe Democrat at South Annex'Ncwsairl* ere Paulette Martin, Cindv Mever and Carol Gaflncy.

Photos by Ed Mullen

I Earl Reed

Soufh Annex parlicipanls shown, from left lo right, are PaulelleMartin, Carol Gaffney, Al Wuenscher, Cindy Meyer and DebbieRusan. Missing from the picture is Bernice Hendricks who wasslill out hawking lhe papers.

Sellers at the two oulsidelocations are, front row, lefl toright, June Barbey, JohnHopkins and Connie Hume,back row, Joe Mullins, BillKolnik and John Neville.

Harold Hopper and Al Wesl didn't lel anyone get by at lhe "K" lolgale on the 2nd Slreel inslallalion.

Top sales person wasSinnwell.

Eileen

Al South Annex nobody escaped the sales people. Taxi driversbringing employees to work goi caught up in the spirii of the day.Page 4 Orientor December 9,1977