PERMANENT PANELS, TECHNICAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00535R000100030011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 26, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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26 May 1972
DDS&T-1533-72
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans
Deputy Director for Support
Office Directors, Directorate of Science
and Technology
SUBJECT: Permanent Panels, Technical Coordinating
Committee
1. With the concurrence of the Research and Development
Board, vI herewith establish the following groups as permanent
panels of the Technical Coordinating Committee. Under the
guidance of the Technical Coordinating Committee, the Panels
will maintain a continuous overview of the area assigned to
them and will be prepared at any time to produce for the
Committee and the R&D Board, a comprehensive status report
of their area of responsibility, including:
A. A statement-of long-range technical objectives.
B. An inventory and assessment of current capa-
bility within the Agency.
C. An inventory of on-going and programmed R, D & E
programs.
D. An evaluation of the adequacy of these programs
to include:
(1) Existing technologic opportunities which
should be but are not currently funded or
programmed.
(2) Limiting technologic gaps for which no
solution is currently foreseen.
(3) Identification and explanation of desirable
redundancies which may exist in the program.
(4) Identification of programs which are
unnecessarily duplicative.
(5) Identification of policy, political or.
internal organizational problems, which
limit the effectiveness of the program.
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E. Recommended actions and programs.
2. I would like the Panels to maintain an updated copy
of their status report in the office of the Technical Coordi-
nating Committee chairman.
3. I will look forward to the cooperation and support of
your operating elements as these Panels seek their help in
defining our capabilities and needs.
jjucKeri
B.
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Deputy Director
for
Science and Technology
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