National Bureau of Standards, Lowry Mark Year of Cooperation in Training Lowry Airman, 16 Mar 1967 Boulder, CO: Forty-Five Air Force and Navy electronic measurement technicians and instructors visiting the National Bureau of Standards' Boulder laboratories this week marked a year of special cooperation between the NBS's radio standards laboratory and the 3415th Technical School at Lowry AFB. The students and instructors (including four Navy civilian technicians) were part of more than 2500 student and faculty members who have toured the NBS facilities since 1959. A year ago, the tours, previously informal and voluntary, became a regular part of the Precision Measuring Equipment Specialist course (ALR 32430 and AZR 32470) offered by the Department of Avionics Training. The specialist school is headed by Lt. Col. Tommy Benwell: the department of Avionics Training by Col. Clifton L. Boyd: and the 3415th Technical School by Col. James F. Reed. SMSgt Eugene A. Papineau is superintendent of the Precision Measurement school. The course trains enlisted and civilian personnel for the Air Force's worldwide measurement laboratory system; selected Navy personnel from the calibration laboratories on Navy fleet tenders and some shore installations; and allied officers and enlisted men under the Military Assistance Program. The 35-week Air Force course (the Navy course is 19 weeks) covers a review of mathematics and electronic theory, direct current and low frequency alternating current measurements, waveform analysis, frequency measurements, microwave measurements, nuclear radiation measurements, and the measurement of physical and dimensional quantities such as angular measurement, length, rotary motion, weight, temperature, vibration, high and low pressures, vacuum, force, and torque. Emphasis during the tour and briefings is on the work of the radio standards laboratory and electronic calibration center. The electronic calibration center, organized in 1958, periodically calibrates the best electronic standards of industry and government. It thus serves as the fountainhead of a measurement system which extends unbroken to the assembly line, the launch pad, and the research laboratory, and to U. S. bases and tracking stations overseas. The briefings and tours are supervised by MSgt Robert E. Anders and MSgt. Charles W. Vann. Both are instructors in the course. Howard W. Reynolds, a civilian instructor in the course, and SSgt. Joseph L. Roberge, also an instructor, assist with the briefings in the laboratories in Boulder.