MILESTONES: OCS HISTORY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 29, 1966
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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29 August 1966
MILESTONES: OCS HISTORY
1958 AD/CR (Borel) suggested to senior management possibilities
(beyond PI su ort of ADP: resultant DD/S study agreed.
SA/AD/CR sent to California for 18 months to learn
about ADP.
Oct 59-Jul 61 Upon Q return, a DD/I Automation Staff was established,
with Joe reporting directly to Bob Amory. In October 1960, an
RCA 501 was installed by the Comptroller--no connection with
at that time. The DDI/AS was to plan a DDI-wide com-
puting effort- -including what is now CHIVE;
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Jul 61-Aug 63 DDI/AS merged with CIA Management Staff Il and sup- 25X1
plemented by Ito form the CIA Automatic Data Pro-
cessing Staff (ADPS), organizationally placed under the DD/S.
Staff charged with (1) establishing a computer center (IBM 1410
/1401); (2) carrying on CHIVE and implementing "special pro-
ject" applications; (3) technical supervision of DDS/Comptroller
/ADP Division; (4) CIA EDP liaison.
quirements and, in July, F7
1 were authorized-- 25X1
In May 1963, on crash basis, an IBM 7090 was brought in to
provide better support to Agency scientific data processing re-
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Aug 63-Present Effective 5 August, the ADPS was renamed the Office of Compu-
ter Services (OCS), with Becker as its head, and was transferred
from the DD/S to the DD/S&T. Four months later (Nov 63), the
=in the Comptroller's shop were transferred to OCS to
raise the Office total physical consolidation occurred in 25X1
March 1964 in Headquarters Building--the IBM 1401/1410/7090
equipment line being supplemented by 25X1
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The study (on-going in Mar 64)
temporarily deferred organizational integration of the Comp-
troller's ADP group, hence a " shop-within-a- shop" structure
existed until November 1964.
Early in 1965, after considerable study, the decision was made
to convert to third-generation computer hardware, the ultimate
model selected being the IBM 360/67. The OCS Computer Sys-
tems Planning Report was issued on 1 June 1965. From that
date to the present, the evolutionary process has been going on
through smaller 360 computers--the models 30, 50, and 65.
The IBM 1400 and 7000 series Systems and the
Systems will be replaced early in CY 1968.
Qn 1 jJune ;1966'; Joe Becker left OCS, with'Chuck Briggs, of
DDI/OCR coming in as Director.
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