DRAFT FIVE-YEAR ADP PLAN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04723A000200060015-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 29, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOB
Processing Staff/OPPS
SUBJECT . Draft Five-Year AOP Plan
1. This is to reiterate some of the co ents made In our recent
IPC meeting, and to mention some specifics which you might note, and
incorporate in a revised draft if feasible.
2. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: While we all agreed that the tenor of
the total presentation of the Agency Five,Year Plan Is very well
balanced, I feel that the order of presentation for the high level
reader Is bound to disturb him. The projected grosat'h rates (which
no
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Get} not se=mm au ;AV . ,
motion processing organization) will be read first, and most probably
out of context. I f you can work up a few pungent sentences to show
that what follows in the way of projected trends should not be vi meted
with alarm you will be doing us all a very great service.
Motor ADP systems speaks to a partial list of ma
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4hICh could Imply that the figure c
a ded" ATOP systems
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in dollars and man years are devoted only to new developments, while
In fact we know that your figures Include all on-going operations as
applications.
4, on page 9 under An Agency ADP Program", you state that only
one-third of our ADP, the cost of the Office of Computer Services, is
readily identifiable in the IPZE program category. This Is certainly
not true, or less true, In the context of the most recent Program Call.
All of the CS ADP was covered under the IP&E program category.
5, Page 13. armor Apncy ADP Projects b_Y.. Priority. As noted
ears not see they C' 5 document and Information storage
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ngs we
our meet
and retrieval systems being ranked as moderate Instead of top priority,
nor can we see the PSIS, TOD, or COINS being. -rated as moderate rather
than marginal In priority. Nor can the CS accept the notion that the
Fi/D PARACEPT proccssing system should be ranked below the afore
mentioned as marginal If promising sources develop. In my view, the
probable success of the PARACEPT system, Including the assumption that
pertinent date will be acquired and used, certainly exceeds the expec-
tations for COINS if not the other Items mentioned. Re. Fi/D PARACEPT,
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the chart showing alternatives In terms of dollar reductions should
show a difference between 4.0 million and 3.7 million from full
system to optimum, since taking optimum down to 3.0 million will
preclude the OCF and, In effect, leave us with what we have now.
The same goes for t=.- austerity figure.
6. As for the specific recommendations on Page 24, Paras, c, d,
and e; I am. sure you understood and sympathized with our point tha
management of Agency ADP has reached the level of management overkill
already, and that more exacting reporting procedures and approval
mechanisms w i l l be counter--productive. On the other hand, I f more
explicit detail on Agency ADP programs must be developed, we certainly
would prefer this to be done within the Agency Program Call and Budget
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researc
ure, rather than as a separate exercise.
27: R&D. Please note that RID does not conduct ADP
8. Page 31: Figure `i. Your chart for FY 1369 shows 5.4
million, which Includes 850K for newi equipment, field mlcro-
fi lming (100x) and keypunch purchases of 110K. We have been moved
for various reasons to strike those Increases In that year, and If
you plan to change the chart, i t would bring that bar down to around
4.3 figure.
9. Page 37= Plans Directorate. if you want to change the
figures, the last s nter+ i Par raph 1. should read: this
-bective contemplates the data base of seven 1/2 million Index
over l million documents or 3.5 million pages, and per..
, records
,
formance of 1,000 document retrievals and 4,000 name searches daily,
plus major additional processing. The third paragraph under the
RID Central Retrieval System" should be changed to read, In the
second sentence, the first two subsystems are operational and the
third wit) be operational In 1972. 25X1A
cc : 25X1 A
1--C/F1 D/TPB - Mr.0
l--iPC/DDS&T
l - I PC/DOS
I - IPC/DOt
Chief, DOP Systems Group
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