JOINT CIA - GDIP CONSOLIDATED SAFE PROGRAM REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00220R000600640007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 10, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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DCI/ICS 85-4000
STAT
MEMORANDUM FOR:( (Director, GDIP Staff
Mr. Daniel Childs, Comptroller, CIA
FROM: Director, Program and Budget Staff
SUBJECT: Joint CIA - GDIP Consolidated SAFE Program Review
STAT On 25 October 1985 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 1S06I a joint CIA-GDIP hearing
will be conducted to review the issues concerning the Consolidated SAFE
Program. Your presentation should focus on the attached questions. Written
responses to these questions are due at the presentation on the 25th.
STAT
STAT
STAT
Please provide a list of attendees to
of my staff by COB 23 October 1985.
Attachment:
As stated
All portions of this letter
are UNCLASSIFIED
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SUBJECT: Joint CIA - GDIP Consolidated SAFE Program Review
STAT ICS/PBS)
(10 October 1985)
Distribution: DCI/ICS 85-4000 (All with Attachment)
STAT 1 - Di r, GDIPI
1 - Comptroller, CIA,
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SUBJECT: Joint CIA - GDIP Consolidated SAFE Program Review
ICS/PBS
(10 October 1985)
Distribution: DCI/ICS 85-4000 (All with Attachment)
Original - Each Addressee
1 - GDIP Program Monitor
1 - CIA Program Monitors
1 - IHC
1 - PBS Subject
1 - PBS Chrono
1 - ICS/Registry
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QUESTIONS FOR THE CONSOLIDATED SAFE PROGRAM
1. How has the schedule for SAFE Deliveries changed from information
presented in the July 83 Project Plan?
STAT
STAT
What are the causes of the schedule slippages?
Where is the current SAFE Delivery schedule and implementation
approach documented?
Is Delivery 2 expected to satisfy all functional requirements
originally targeted for Delivery 2 or have some of the
requirements been pushed out to later Deliveries?
How have the cost overruns experienced with Delivery 2 been factored
into the current budget?
2. How confident is CSPO that Delivery 2 will satisfactorily support 1000
concurrent users given the problems with the Data Base Management System,
INQUIRE?
- What is CSPO's backup position if Delivery 2 fails to perform
satisfactorily?
3. What SAFE Delivery(s) are expected to. be running in FY87?
How many CIA and DIA users
these systems?
What stati
supporting
Is there a high
Delivery 2 SAFE
ADP support for
(total and concurrent) must be supported by
have been used to project the requirement for
concurrent users at CIA in FY87 and at DIA in FY88?
degree of confidence within CIA and DIA that the
system will be a solid foundation on which to build
fusers?
4. If each agency must operate two SAFE systems simultaneously to support CIA
and DIA users requirements, how will the running of two parallel systems
effect the program's hardware costs, software costs and maintenance costs?
- Are FY86 and FY87 funds programmed within each agency sufficient to
support parallel system operations in addition to developing improved
functional capabilities planned for Deliveries 3, 4 and SAFE 'Delivery
5 Releases'?
5. SAFE Deliveries continue to be descoped. What is the magnitude of
requirements planned for FY85 and 86 that have been pushed out to FY87 and
beyond?
What % of total SAFE requirements have been met to date?
Can functional capabilities delivered or planned within each SAFE
Delivery be traced back to a baseline requirements document that is
being maintained through the SAFE Configuration Control Process?
To what degree is SAFE Delivery 4 being descoped to stay within
programmed funding?
How does DIA expect to meet user requirements that fail to be met
by Delivery 4?
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6. In FY86 and 87 joint program resources will be focused on DIA deliveries.
Are there sufficient resources to provide CIA 'releases' in addition to DIA's
deliveries?
- If it becomes impossible to provide both, which has priority?
7. How much has been spent to date on the SAFE program to provide CIA and DIA
users the functional SAFE capabilities operational today?
8. Does CIA commit to continued staffing of CSPO with experienced technical
and management persons dedicated to SAFE development through Delivery 4, when
the major benefit of the Consolidated SAFE program to CIA will be experienced
with Delivery 2 and the remaining Deliveries will be of primary benefit to DIA?
- What will this committment cost CIA?
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