It is a striking fact that this country has no single major center, governmental, industrial, or academic, possessing the breadth required for handling all the concurrent work needed in Vela Uniform. As a result, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) has several agents handling the forty major contracts in the Vela Uniform program, each agent being assigned a specific technical area. For those of you not familiar with the ARPA concept, the actual management mechanism includes the following.