INTERAGENCY STUDY OF OPTIONS FOR INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP10M02313R000704000005-5
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 27, 1979
• Content Type: MISC

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RESOURCE MANIA :MENT STAFF
NOTE FOR: B. C. Evans
Executive Secretary, ES/DCI
Executive Officer, MS
STAT
SUBJECT: Interagency Study of Options for
Integrating Remote Sensing Systems
Attached is a copy of a note from I 0 STAT
to Charlie Cook. Dr. Cook, who represented
Admiral Turner during Phase I of this study,
has agreed to continue.
Attachment:
as stated
STAT
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Charl ie,
would like you to continue
as the DCI's representative on this study.
Please call Calio on it.
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Space Administration
Washington, D.C.
20546
Office of the Administrator
Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director
Central Intelligence
Washington, DC 20505
JUN i 5 1579
Presidential Directive/NSC-42 directed an interagency
study of options for integrating remote sensing systems
into an overall national system. The first phase of that
study is near completion, and a draft report addressing some
of the technical and cost factors involved in different
levels of remote sensing systems integration is now being
reviewed by your representative. We expect to complete this
interagency review in the next few weeks.
I wish to stress that this draft does not represent the
full report called for in PD/NSC-42 and Jim McIntyre's
memorandum to me of February 1, 1979. We must now turn our
attention to the policy, management, and institutional
aspects of the nation's remote sensing programs, and take
into consideration as well the interagency work done on
public sector involvement possibilities, meteorological
satellite system convergence, and oceanic satellite
demonstration activities.
Since our overall deadline for a complete report to the
Policy Review Committee (Space) is mid-August, we will have
to streamline our remaining study activities and make the
most effective use of the time remaining. I have selected
Dr. Anthony J. Calio, NASA's Associate Administrator for
Space and Terrestrial Applications, to head this effort.
I envisage him working with a small, high-level group to
examine the sensible significant policy directions the
United States might take in remote sensing, the several
basic management approaches that could be considered, and
the various institutional structures that would be responsive
to the defined national requirements. To conserve scarce time
and manpower, we propose to first outline a "straw man"
document and then engage the group to assure that all pertinent
points are adequately treated. I feel this approach will
assure that there is no forced compromise of valid positions
and that the resultant report will be a proper basis for the
PRC(S) deliberations.
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I would appreciate it if your office could let Dr. Calio
(755-8588) know who you would like to work with him on this
study.
cc:
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy
Director, Office of Managemept and Budget
Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
and Policy .
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