TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR STUDY OF RD&E SELECTED COLLECTION SYSTEMS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2002
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• Publication Date: January 1, 1967
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Terms of Reference
for
Study of RD&E of Selected
Collection Systems
For each of the three collection RD&E studies, the final report
should provide comprehensive descriptive material, including a short
history of the program, and should provide answers, when applicable,
to the following questions:
1. Objectives
What are the objectives of the program? Have objectives
changed during program development? What explicit operational
requirements are there for the RD&E in this area? Who originated
the requirements? Are they satisfied with program progress?
What are the priorities of the targets? Is the timing of the program
consistent with the time requirement of the intelligence objective?
2. Program Description and Schedule
What are the performance characteristics of the hardware?
What technical problems must be solved? Is there a critical com-
ponent or subsystem? What is the program schedule including
major milestones? When is the estimated operational date? Is
the program phased to provide different levels of operational
capability? If so, show time phasing. Provide the expenditures
to date and an estimate of future costs of the program. Cost data
should be detailed by each phase of the program, subsystem, support,
or other meaningful categories. Do some of the subsystems have
uses in other RD&E programs? How have the various phases of
the program been integrated in the past (e. g. , techniques, sub-
systems, contractors, planning)? What is the method to be used
in the future? 25X1
3. Alternative-
What other collection means are available or are under
development to obtain the intelligence objectives sought? Have
other collection means been rejected? If so, why? Note if there
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are parallel back up or redundant programs. Estimate the effect on
attainment of these objectives of alternate levels of funding and time
phasing.
4. Operational Planning
What operational planning has been accomplished by the potential
user? What are the anticipated funding levels, training requirements,
placement issues for the estimated operational program? What are
the risks involved in the operational program? Is the program limited
by geography? Are there other operational limitations? Are there
security problems for the operational program? What types of data
will be collected? What processing will be required? Are there any
special analytical requirements? What existing collection programs
could be replaced by this program when it becomes operational?
Coordination
What coordination was there with the eventual operators?
Between research organizations (ORD-TSD-Commo)? With intel-
ligence producers (the consumers of the raw product)? What is the
coordinating mechanism?
6. Program Evaluation
What system or method of program evaluation has been used
in the past? What are future evaluation plans? How often is the
program evaluated? By whom?
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