IMPACT OF NOT OBTAINING GH-62 OFFICE SPACE ON PROJECT SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R001001310050-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: August 19, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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SAF-E348-82
19 August 1982
MEh10RANDUh7 FOR : Director of Data Processing
Chief, Operations Support Segment/CSPO/ODP
SUBJECT Impact of Not Obtaining GH-62 Office Space
on Project SAFE
1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE -This memorandum presents my assessment
of the impact of not obtaining in September 1982 office space to support
implementation of the SAFE Early Capability in the Spring of 1983.
Background information is provided in Paragraph 2, below; the CSPO staff
position is presented in Paragraph 3, below; and Paragraph 4, below,
contains a summary of the impact of not obtaining .the requested office
space on the Early. Capability activities and schedule.
2. BACKGROUND INFORh1ATION - In June 1981, 4,000 square feet
of office space within Headquarters Building was requested to support
TR~Y's system testing activities for the initial system capability (previously
defined as Block 1) which was being developed by TROY.
This space was originally requested to be made available in play
1982. Subsequently, 2,100 square feet of office space was allocated to the
CSPO and was scheduled to be available in July 1982 and was re-scheduled
later to be available later in September 1982.
STAT
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The requested office space was planned to supplement the
Northside (SAFE) Computer Center, located in Room GE-40, which is being
renovated in two phases. The Phase 1 area, consisting of approximately
9,000 square feet, was completed in October 198?. Note that renovation of
the Phase 2 area, consisting of approximately 7,000 square feet which
includes office space, work space and a library area, has not yet been
started and the current completion date is October 1983. The Phase 1
area (see Attachment 1) is to house the computer and peripheral
equipment.
The GH-62 office space (see Attachment 2) is currently planned
to be used as a work space for contractor and Government personnel
involved in system testing and maintenance activities for the Early
Capability. In addition, this space is planned to be the Northside
Computer Center management work space for planning and developing
standard operating procedures, training of computer operators -and
operations management of the Early Capability systems required for CIA
and DIA analysts.
SAFE Project re-direction plans, effective circa July 1982, Gail for
the installation of six computers, five communications front-end processors
and associated peripheral equipment within the Phase 1 area of the
Northside (SAFE) Computer Center. These computers will be configured
to place into operation two independent systems for the CIA and DIA
intelligence analysts in the Spring of 1933. The purpose of the Early
Capability systems is to provide: (a) visibility to SAFE-like functions to a
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larger group of DDI anal~s than is possible with the c~rent SAFE Pilot
Mail Operation and (b) SAFE-like functions to DDI and DIA analysts so
that user feed-back, based on hands-on experience, is available to adjust
the ultimate SAFE requirements and the resulting SAFE capabilities.
The requested office space, shown in Attachment 2, contains
positions for eighteen people and a cluster room for 10 terminals and 7
printers. The space is to support the following Early Capability activities:
o Application software modification, development and
maintenance by contractor personnel.
o System testing, acceptance testing and operational testing by
CSPO personnel.
o Computer operations planning, support and management by
CSPO personnel.
3. STAFF POSITION - Existing space is NOT available within the
space allocated to the CSPO to accommodate the Early Capability activities,
cited above.
Because of the Project's re-direction and organizational
re-structuring, 10 additional DlA personnel have been requested to be
added to the Consolidated SAFE Project Office staff. These additional DIA
personnel, expected in October 1982, will be housed within the fourth floor
of Ames Building along with the current (CIA and DIA) CSPO staff
Personnel. As a result of the additional DIA personnel and the CSPO
reorganization, two computer operator work positions in Ames Building are
to be re-located into the GH-62 area in September 1982 to aid in alleviating
the CSPO space problem. The computer operator personnel along with two
DIA computer operator personnel would then be conveniently located to.
counterpart ODP personnel required for planning, training and managing
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their computer operations~sks.
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Six contractor personnel required to modify the Pilot h1ail
Operation software are also scheduled to be housed within the GH-62 office
space. In addition to their required access to a terminal. cluster room and
work positions, access is required by these personnel to both OCR/DDI
and Processing/ODP personnel in perfo-?ming P"~tO software modification and
development tasks.
The remaining eight positions within the GH-62 area will be
allocated to CSPO personnel required to perform and approve system
testing, acceptance testing and operational testing activities for the Early
Capability system deliveries.
Space within the Phase 1 area of the Northside Computer center
cannot accommodate the activities, cited above, because of the extended
periods of time contractor personnel are- expected to work to meet the
Early Capability schedule. Further, because of the amount of work- that
must be done to prepare the computer room for the installation of
equipment and the amount of equipment planned to be installed, this area
would not be conducive to the work required for software modification and
development activities.
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4. SUh1~rtARY - The space allocated (2,100 square feet) is
approximately one-half of what was originally requested in June 1981. The
current availability date has been re-scheduled three times and additional
re-scheduling will delay the activities required to meet the announced
Early Capability system delivery dates to which we are committed to the
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency and Deputy Director of
Intelligence/CIA. Existing CSPO space v.~ithin the Northside Computer
Center and Ames Building cannot be provided to accommodate the required
activities.
If the GH-62 office space is not made available during September
or early October 1982, the Early Capability schedule cannot be met.
STAT
Attachments:
1 -Floor Layout of the Northside Computer Center
2 - CSPO's Floor Layout of the GH-62 office space
Distribution:
Orig. -Addressee
1 - DD/ODP
1 - D/CSPO/ODP
1 -SAFE Chrono
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