MAY IHC MEETING

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• Publication Date: May 3, 1985
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Information Handling Committee
WASHINGTON, DC 20505
IHC/MM 85-76
3 May 1985
Executive Secretary, Intelligence
Information Handling Committee
SUBJECT: May IHC Meeting
1. The next IHC meeting will be held on Wednesday, 22 May 198
Friday, 24 May) from 0945-1145 in Room 1506
The proposed agenda for the meeting is at Attachment 1.
2. The proposed action plan for the comprehensive review of the CIRS
plan, which was distributed at our April meeting, is at Attachment 2 . Please
provide your comments and suggestions on this proposed plan to
by the 8 May meeting of the sponses may be
provided via telephone a or through your
organization's representa ive to e coor ina ion group.
3. Finally, the terms of reference regarding IC efforts to access
commercial data bases is provided at Attachment 3. Please be prepared to
discuss this subject at our May IHC meeting.
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Attachment 1
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Security Labeling
FBIS Upgrade
CIRS Review
Matters in Progress
New Business
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MI..Ldcnment 2
1200, 25 Apr
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PROPOSED ACTION PLAN FOR
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE CIRS PLAN
o LENGTH OF EFFORT: 90 days from mid-May to mid-August 1985
o PURPOSE OF EFFORT: 1.) Re-examine the need for CIRS,
2.) Summary of problems causing slippage in
current schedule
3.) Review of new technology that may be avail-
able to satisfy CIRS requirements
4.) Review proposed architecture for CIRS
5.) Review management/implementation structure
6.) Consider advisability of more adequately
addressing interim areas such as Data
communications networking and hardcopy
storage and retrieval
7.) Recommend mid-course corrections to the DDCI
o REVIEW TEAMS/PERSONNEL:
- IHC members
- CIRS Management Coord. Group (All day meetings every two weeks)
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ACTION PLAN FOR COMPREHENSIVE CIRS REVIEW
(Continued)
BASIC QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN THE REVIEW:
o The CIRS plan is predicated on the following assumptions:
-There is a need for the IC analysts to have on-line access to an all-
source historical data base of the full-text documents of intell-
igence materials which are externally distributed within the Intell-
igence Community
-These documents can be efficiently queried for historical review and
analysis
-Automated analyst support systems under development in the Community
would not fully meet the above need, the shortfall being sufficient
to justify implementation of CIRS
-There is sufficient benefit and savings potential in the common user
approach to the creation and maintenance of the data bases to warrant
the cost and technical risk of CIRS development.
o Do these premises remain valid? If not, to what extent must they be
altered?
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ACTION PLAN FOR COMPREHENSIVE CIRS REVIEW
(Continued)
o The development of the CIRS plan was based upon the assumption that
existing systems and those under development would not be able to
satisfy the analysts requirements for historical retrieval of full
text information. Will existing systems or those currently under
development now be able to satisfy the analysts' needs before 1990?
For each system the following should be addressed:
-What type of processing support will be provided (i.e., text
retrieval or index record processing) ?
-What sources of externally distributed intelligence reporting
will be available? What are the current and expected volumes?
-What data retention capabilities will be provided?
-Who (how many and where) will have access to these systems and
theses capabilites? (People, terminals, queries)
-Will these be accessible by network users or will systems (e.g.,
SOLIS) linked to the COINS and/or DoDIIS networks be available
via these systems?
-Do these systems now process or by 1990 do they intend to
process TS/SI(G), TS/TK(O,P), ORCON, or NOFORN materials? What
controls or security filters are used to process these materials
-What security mode of operation do the systems identified in the
CIRS plan currently support(e.g., system high, dedicated, multi-
level) and what level will they support through 1990?
o What impact would the successful implementation of CIRS have on other
commumity or agency efforts such as WRANGLER, DESIST, Integrated Data Base,
graphics?
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ACTION PLAN FOR COMPREHENSIVE CIRS REVIEW
(Continued)
o TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS:
--Are the host systems identified in the CIRS plan capable of provid-
ing the retrieval capabilities specified in the plan?
--Will the COINS and DoDIIS networks be able to handle the anticipated
workload? How likely is the COINS and DoDIIS network interactive
gateway to be successful? (This is necessary for full CIRS
implementation)? When can we reasonably expect this gateway to
be completed?
--What role might GESCAN II or other similar devices play in support
of a redirection of CIRS? (review White House efforts, CIA, NSA)
--What will it take to reach "compartmented mode" of operations in
the hosts and networks? Is it achievable by 1988-1990?
--What is the status of the CIA GUARD effort? Can it be used to help
satisfy some the security concerns? (If so what needs to be done)
--What possible open source processing support can FBIS provide in
relation to the CIRS plan?
--What are the technical risks for achieving the CIRS CUI? Will it
work on the FTD system? How about long term for the other hosts?
Why not use SUI, NQL, and/or ADAPT?
--What role might the DIA AIRS optical disk effort play in satisfying
the CIRS requirements?
o What are managment's security concerns related to CIRS?
--Foreign National Access to networks and host computers?
--Auditing capabilities?
--Access to SCI approved individuals?
--Networking to hosts?
--Uniform application of security protection features?
--Assurance that protection features are used?
--Other (please specify)
o CIRS Management/Implementation Structure:
--Should the procedure, structure, and management of CIRS be
changed?
Attachment: Recommendations from the members of the CIRS mgt coord group
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Attachment 3
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Subject: Commercial Data Bases
Definition: Commercial Data Bases are data bases maintained by
commercial vendors and available on a remote access basis in the
United States or from western foreign vendors.
Problem: The Intelligence Community is currently arranging
separate acquisitions of and access to commercial data bases.
Remote access and access to on-line queries made by IC agencies
may pose substantial security problems. A joint effort to address
such problems may be of mutual benefit.
Proposal: The IHC should establish an informal working group of
interested agencies to address the following issues with domestic
vendors:
a. down-loading of data bases
b. pre and post query processing
c. encrypted access connections
d. economies of scale
e. other security concerns
In addition, the working group should explore with CIA and State
the extension of current CIA and State efforts on foreign data
base access to other IC agencies.
Working Group Members: The working group should initially be
composed of representatives from CIA, NSA, DIA, State, DOE, and
the Military Departments. Others may participate should they wish
to do so.
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