Missile Technology Historical Association and Point Mugu Alumni Association

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• Presentation to NAWCWD Point Mugu on the
• Historical Collection Status and Plans

4 December 2008
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Historical Collection Overview

• Collection consists of
• Hardware (Missiles, Targets, models, components,
  displays)
• Documentation (books, reports, memos, drawings,
  art, ephemera)
• Imagery (Photo, Motion Picture, Video, Digital)
• Sound recordings (Oral Histories)
• Collection resides in three buildings (112, 52,
  and 6-31)
• Inventory and organization of the collection in
  Bldg 112 is incomplete but ongoing
• 10,000 documents
• 10,000 rolls of motion picture film
• 20,000 photographs and negatives
• thousands of 35mm slides
• thousands of video tapes
• more than 100 pieces of hardware
• bookcase material important to research (at
  least 100)
• Oral History audio tape collection
• New accessions and donations ongoing

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Progress - Collections
Clean, drywall, repair and repaint photo storage
area. Unpack, organize, inventory and store
former Photo Lab Holdings.
File cabinets donated by Northrop Grumman
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Progress - Collections
Unpack, organize, inventory and store former
Tech Library Holdings.
File cabinets donated by Northrop Grumman
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Progress Work Spaces
Local computer network (non NMCI, no net access)
built. PCs, network printer donated by
Northrop Grumman)
Desks, chairs, bookcases salvaged with permission
from Building 761.
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Progress Motion Picture Collections
Upper Left As received. Upper Right
Repackaged and boxed Right Film cans organized,
inventoried and racked in vaults (former walk-in
refrigerators).
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Progress New Displays
Top Left AQM-37A Target Top Right AIM-7E
Seeker Right MA-31 Target
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Priority for Continuing Efforts

• Complete organization and inventory efforts using
  standards common to Navy Museums.
• Transfer imagery to sustainable media (DVD)
• Establish procedures for research activities
• Capture contemporary items of historical interest
• Establish relationships for cooperation and
  support/advice
• China Lake Museum
• Seabee Museum
• National Institute of Science and Technology
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
• Local universities History Departments (draft
  letter)
• Navy Air Museum at Pensacola
• Historian of the Navy (register the inventory)

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Challenges

• Access Point Mugu by volunteers (badges and car
  passes).
• Access to inventory on the base (behind the
  fence).
• Access to donors of historical items , materials
  and excess furniture (file cabinets, bookshelves,
  etc.) and transport to Bldg 112. (I.E. -
  Materials available if we come to pick it up.)
• Classification and restrictions on hardware,
  documents and imagery.
• Declassification (Confidential and below)
• Release for photos.
• Continuing civil service support.
• To include DD1149 transfer responsibility
• Designation of an agent for interface with
  outside organizations.

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Summary

• Remarkable progress though hard work and
  dedication has been made over the past three
  years.
• Organization of the inventory process, including
  capture of collection items.
• Organization of building 112.
• Estimating the magnitude of the inventory.
• Recognition of the importance of this collection.
• Use of Building 112 as a command asset.

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Conclusion

• The MTHA and Point Mugu Alumni Association stand
  prepared to support this collection through
  volunteers and through liaison with other
  organizations.
• We need help with certain interfaces that require
  a NAWCWD official.
• This effort requires continuing civil service
  support.