INFORMATION PROCESSING MANAGEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04723A000400010006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REGULATION

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INFORMATION PROCESSING MANAGEMENT
1. For purposes of this Notice, Information Processing Activities are
those activities which use or expect to use automatic data proces-
sing equipment (ADPE). Communications activities using automatic
switching equipment are excluded.
2. The objective is to strengthen the coordination and management of
information processing activities in the Agency; to ensure that
ADPE is used only where it has utility; and to limit growth of ADP
resources by ensuring that ADPE is used only for those applica-
tions where a positive gain to the overall Agency mission can be
clearly established.
. , iaiera IS an :Lut:ormation Processing Coordinator in each Directorate.
Their- responsibilities are:
To review Information Processing Activities, or proposed
activities in terms of
(1) overall utility;
(2) Life expectancy;
(3) Contribution to mission accomplishment and achievement
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of specific operational or management objectives;
(4) Relationship to other existing or planned activities;
(5) Need for compatability with other activities, and
achievement of computability where there is a need;
(6) Relative merits of ADPE application and other possible
solutions to the stated problem;
(7) Relationship of the information processing activity to
the overall plan of the Directorate;
To assist managers in defining problems; in determining what
facilities or systems are to be used to solve the problems;
and in developing requests for approval of specific projects;
To advise the Deputy Directors on ADP matters generally and to
mnal,.e specific program recommendations as appropriate;
4. The Information Processing Coordinators of the Directorates comprise
the Agency Information processing Hoard. The Board will be chaired
by the Chief, Information Processing Staff, OPPB and is responsible
to the Executive Director-Comptroller for the overall planning,
tivities in
it coordination and control Of in# ortnation processing ac
Agency. The Board will fulfill the responsibilities prescribed in
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paragraph 3 above in behalf of the Executive Director-Comptroller
for all information processing activities, giving special attention
to applications which relate to or impact upon the functions of
more than one Directorate.
5. The Board will meet at the call of the Chairman or upon request of
one or more of its members.
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