BUORD

For ten years, plans for a remotely controlled "flying bomb" lay dormant in BUENG and the Bureau of Ordnance (BUORD).

It was not until the failure of the Naval Disarmament Conference of 1935-36 that the paths of the Naval Aircraft Factory, NRL, the Bureau of Aeronautics (BUAER), BUORD, and BUENG converged in pursuit of a field-ready and mass-producible target drone.

(54) Many viewed the exercises that would then be conducted not simply as tests of the skills of gunners but as a way to settle a dispute between BUAER and BUORD regarding the overall efficacy of antiaircraft weapons.