SPECIFIES ON RESEARCH AND ON SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000700070023-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: June 11, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Science and Technology Advisory Panel
STAP-0011/82
11 June 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Specifies on Research and on SAFE
suffered are far ahead and OSO is using STAY
technologies of the '50s 25x1
1. With respect to your questions on 8 June 1982, it appears to me that
the research effort in OTS in the last few years has concentrated on
to such a degree that other projects have had to be curtailed
or drop pe n ORD the cause in large part has been budgetary pressures but
the result is a loss of personnel and their expertise. Some areas that have
2. In re SAFE, if it felt that yet another review group is necessary, I
recommend using available personnel who are already knowledgeable of the SAFE
concept. The names STAP suggests are:
and a user representative that
would be in a position to
do the SAFE job would include:
Science Application, Inc. (SAI)
Stanford Research Institutes (SRI)
RAND
Bolt, Baranek & Newman, Inc. (BB&N) Cambridge, MA
(developers and operators of the ARPANET, the university and
contractor network for DARPA; also developed security gateways
for COINS)
Xerox (would probably be
their own hardware)
Universities with strong expertise
Vv Brown, and Dartmouth.
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11 - N name. Software houses that would
interested in software, even without
in this area would include Stanford,