HPSCI REPLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89G00643R000900190047-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: May 12, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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OIT 0260-87
12 MAY 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
VIA: Director of Information Technology
FROM:
Acting Chief, Network Systems Engineering Group
CIT TRIS
1. As requested, here are paragraphs regarding the charges of lack of
frugality in the HPSCI letter to the Acting DCI.
CIA managers responsible for the data, voice, and transmission
communications facilities in the Headquarters and Reston complexes
spent over a year researching the alternatives for supplying those
capabilities to our intelligence officers. In the data and voice
area, thirty-four separate vendors were solicited for their technical
solutions. Commercial, off-the-shelf hardware was acquired with no
expensive modifications specified. Software which had some enhanced
security features was developed, but development costs were held to a
reasonable level. Acquisitions were made by competitive procurement
in which overall system cost was a primary consideration.
In the transmission system to Reston, fiber was installed because the
cost for any alternative far exceeded the cost for a fiber system.
Data and voice were combined in a single secure system because the
separate cost for each was deemed far too expensive. Non-secure
voice systems were purchased so that long term lease costs for
commercial telephone services could be avoided. In short, every
effort was made to minimize cost.
As the Agency develops collection systems capable of gathering large
amounts of intelligence information, it is our obligation to ensure
that that information reaches our intelligence officers at their
desks. The systems we supplied for data, voice, and transmission
capabilities provide the minimum capabilities necessary to that end.
STAT
STAT
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SUBJECT: HPSCI Reply I STAT
DDA/OIT/NSEG~ I(12 MAY 87)
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