MORE ON OL VIEWS OF BARS/CLAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00191R000100060002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 29, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOR BACKGROUND USE ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
FROM:
SUBJECT: More on OL Views of BARS/CLAS
29 June 1987
1. I met briefly with today and got some additional
feedback on BARS/CLAS. He in cated that the October 1988 target
date seemed to be increasingly unlikely given the slippage that had
already occurred with the loading of the 1.2 packages. He said that
he still favored an all-up implementation rather than a phased
approach but he had not closed his mind on the latter method. He
noted that full funds control appeared to be essential to the system
and that without that capability there would be an excessive number
of interfaces and bridge programs required to FRS.
2. He said that in his discussions with John Ray that it was
agreed that it would be well to leave the project direction in the
said that he had raised with
hands of OIT.
the suggestion that
with the majority of the members of the CLAS teams.
work full
time at
3. said that Newsome of Cullinet had recently indicated
that Funds Control would not be an overlay of the 1.3 packages as
originally envisioned but would only operate with the 1.3 programs.
Newsome also said that the schemas (i.e. descriptions of the
databases) of versions 1.2 and 1.3 are so different that it would
probably take at least four months to migrate from one to the
STAT other. For this reason, has begun to explore with Cullinet
the possibility of getting a vanilla" version of 1.3 as soon as
possible so the prototyping efforts of the CLAS teams would be of
maximum value. It seems that Cullinet is not likely to accommodate
us on this request to get the benefits of being a beta site without
also agreeing to provide the test time and structured feedback.
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4. felt that the recent sessions with OIT had cleared the
air and he urged me to explore what Finance had garnered from its
meeting with OIT last week when met with
believes that OIT can indeed serve as a kind ot
arbitrator between Logistics and Finance and that is the reason he
had initially proposed that an OITer serve as Project Director. He
said that OIT now appeared to acknowledge that the implementation
planning group was premature and he expected some change in the
mechanics of project planning and direction over the next few weeks
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