(U) The task of staffing the expanded organization with competent management and engineering talent fell to COL Norman T. Dennis who joined the office as MAULER Project Manager on 20 September 1962.²¹ By 31 December, his staff had grown from a skeleton crew of 6 to a total of 66 (8 officers, 58 civilians), against an initial TD authorization of 77 (6 officers, 71 civilians).²² During 1963, when the MAULER program suffered its greatest setback, AMC Headquarters increased the TD authorization to 132, and at the end of that year the assigned strength stood at 108.²³ The project office staff also included 10 British and 3 Canadian officers who were participating in the management, development, and evaluation of the MAULER weapon system under a pact with the United Kingdom. These foreign representatives joined the MAULER project staff at MICOM in 1963, following a decision by the United Kingdom to abandon development of its own forward area air defense system known as the PT-428.²⁴
(U) COL Bernard R. Luczak, who succeeded Colonel Dennis as Project Manager on 12 February 1964,²⁵ steered the program through the final agonizing reappraisals and ultimate termination. In mid 1964 the project office had a peak assigned strength of 123, including 110 U. S. Army personnel and 13 British-Canadian officers. The latter personnel were not chargeable against the office's TD authorization, which had been reduced by 15 spaces, from 132 to 117.²⁶
