POLYGRAPH RESEARCH FIVE-YEAR PLAN

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• Publication Date: June 10, 1988
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Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy Director for Science & Technology
Director of Research & Development
Director of Medical Services
Director of Security
Polygraph Research Five-Year Plan
Inspector General's 1987 Report on the
Agency Polygraph Program
1. The referenced report recommends that a five year
polygraph research and funding plan be developed. The proposed
plan, set forth below, is essentially an updated version of the
polygraph research plan developed in 1986. This submission
reflects two additional years planning as well as the
organizational changes which have taken place in the polygraph
research arena over the past year. This plan requires total
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next five years.
1 2. The structure of the polygraph research organization
was altered substantially on 17 September 1987. A Polygraph
Steering Committee (PSC) was formed which is accountable to the
Chief, Polygraph Division (PD), the Polygraph Program Manager.
The PSC oversees four newly formed working groups covering
Instrumentation, Validity, Countermeasures and Methodology.
The bulk of the polygraph research is being done under the
auspices of one of these working groups. Polygraph Division's
in-house research facility is conducting applied research,
generally in support of one or more of the above working
groups. The PSC is also advisory to the Polygraph Program
Manager regarding polygraph research being sponsored by the
Office of Research & Development (ORD). The Committee is
informational to the Personnel Security Research Panel (PSRP)
regarding milestones endorsed by the Polygraph Program
Manager. The PSRP is advisory to the Director of Security.
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3. The following initiatives constitute the current
activities of the Polygraph Research Psogram:
INSTRUMENTATION WORKING GROUP - This Group, with
representation from the Office of Security/Polygraph
Division (OS/PD), OS/Engineering Division (ED), OS/Research
& Analysis Staff (RAS), ORD and the Office of Medical
Services (OMS), is chaired by the Chief, Information
Systems Branch (INSB/ED). This group recently completed a
program plan designed to produce a Modern Polygraph System
(MPS). The Group has prepared the System Requirements
specifications for an initial brassboard model which is
expected to be available by May 1989. Evaluation and
testing of this model will follow and lead to the
production of engineering models of the MPS, Phase I.
Enhancement to the MPS is planned in two additional phases
over a five year period with each phase providing greater
utility and support to the polygrapher in performing an
examination. Education and training regarding the MPS will
parallel its development and incorporate expected
feedback. The detailed Polygraph Instrumentation Program
Plan (PIPP), including resource requirements, is attached.
The Information Systems Branch will include a five year
projection in the Plan when it is published again in the
second quarter of FY88.
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INSB funding to support the MPS in FY88 is for
the production of an MPS Phase I oard and the
25X1 updating of the PIPP. In FY89, will be required for
the procurement of Phase I engineering models, evaluation
and testing of the Phase I hardware and software, the
preparation of further refinements to the MPS (Phase II and
III) requirements, the development of arPhaselII brassboard
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Phase II evaluation and testing and the completion of
enhanced requirements to the MPS Ph requirements and
25X1 updating the PIPP. FY91 funding of ill include
tasks for the development and testing o special interfaces
and software for MPS Phase III, development of a portable
MPS, evaluation and testing of Phase III, support for MPS
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the PIPP. FY92 funding of will include support to
Polygraph Division for the procurement and the installation
of Phase III, special modifications to the MPS software and
the evaluation and testing of MPS Phase III. The manpower
to support the above tasks is three people for each Fiscal
Year. .
OS/PD support of the above effort, including equipment
procure d systems en neering and integration, '1
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each for FY91 & 92. The procurement of the production
model M will be funded throu h 0 PD at an anticipated
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VALIDITY WORKING GROUP - The Polygraph Validity
Working Group (PVWG), chaired by a Research Psychologist
from Research Branch, Research & Information Systems
Division, OMS, was formed in September 1987. The PVWG
consists of representatives from OMS, OS and ORD. The
first major task of the working group is to develop a
research methodology designed to assess the validity of the
specific polygraph interviewing procedures now being used
in the Agency. The target date for completion of this
research plan is December 1988.
The research methods developed by this group will be
specifically designed to investigate the issues related to
the validity of the polygraph interview when used in the
context of employment screening (i.e., applicant
processing, trial, and reinvestigation polygraphs). Every
effort will be made to develop procedures that take into
account specific criticisms of past validation studies of
the polygraph technique when used in the screening mode.
In FY89, the research proposals developed by the PVWG
will be implemented. It is anticipated that as the results
of these studies become available, new research plans will
be developed and original proposals modified. Polygraph
validation research in the Agency will be long-term,
continuing and evolving.
Funding during FY89 will be for travel to meet with
methodological experts in the public and private sectors.
Additionally, we may wish to host interagency (CIA, DOD,
NSA, FBI) meetings to coordinate validation research and to
distribute the draft research proposal for external review.
Total estimated funding for FY89 is Funding
requirements beyond 1989 are difficult to estimate;
however, they can be expected to equal or exceed the FY89
requirements. We anticipate that all research will be
conducted within the Agency by individuals expert in
research design and analysis. The particular Agency
components responsible for executing this research have yet
to be determined.
COUNTERMEASURES WORKING GROUP - The Chief of the
Polygraph Division Research Section has been designated to
chair the Countermeasures Working Group. Funding was made
available in FY87 for
to assist in the development of a Counter-
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measures Research Program Plan. A two-day conference was
held 7 and 8 December 1987, which as attended by experts
within and outside of Government for the purpose of
identifying the issues and objectives that should be
included in the plan. Individuals from within CIA will
supplement the work of to address the unique
aspects of the countermeasures threat posed by the
operational cases conducted for the Directorate of
Operations. The target date for completion of this
research plan is December 1988.
Funding resources in the amount of per year,
beginning in FY89, are needed to fund countermeasures
research. It is possible that the Countermeasures Research
Program being developed will provide requirements for
additional countermeasures research. This amount will
allow one new countermeasures research initiative per year
and also provide funding for one follow-on project per
year. This level of funding should result in significant
improvement in developing the ability to detect, counter
and respond to countermeasures that will continually be
directed at our operational testing program.
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METHODOLOGY WORKING GROUP - This Group, chaired by
the Chief, Training Section, Polygraph School, PD/OS, was
formed in November 1987. The Polygraph Steering Committee
decided that methodology research could best be
accomplished by participating in an interagency directed
effort supplemented by CIA-sponsored research for any
unique requirements not addressed by the interagency
effort. The Interagency Group is chaired by
Chief Polygraph and Personnel Security, NSA. Other
members include Dr. William Yankee and Dr. Gordon Barland
from the Defense Polygraph Institute and the Chairmen of
the CIA Countermeasures and Methodology Working Groups. No
funding is anticipated for methodology research projects
during FY88 and 89. Funding requirements for research in
FY90, 91, and 92 are estimated to be per year in
order to accommodate methodology research in support of the
Modern Polygraph System. Funding requirements will be
greater if the majority of the research is not conducted
within the Agency.
4. The above working groups represent an organizational
division of labor according to function. They are designed to
address the basic research requirements of the Agency's
polygraph program. Each of these working groups is dependent
upon the goodwill and resources of the members' managers. The
Working Groups, however, are supported by two additional
offices with long term specific charters to address polygraph
research needs.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - The role of ORD
in the Agency's polygraph research program has been
primarily to investigate approaches and technologies 5 to
20 years in the future. Recently ORD has also assisted in
developing the Modern Polygraph System Requirements, and
continues to assist in drafting engineering requirements
for that system. ORD will also help incorporate new
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contribute in an advisory capacity in validity,
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Currently, ORD sponsors four projects in support of
polygraphy, with three other projects in planning:
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The funding requirements identified in the attachments
to this plan for the ORD research for FY88-FY92 are
The current budg
ORD's polygraph research for FY88-FY92 is
based on funds coming from the
countermeasures initiative. Any future cuts in the
countermeasures initiative will affect the funding levels
currently budgeted. Also, if all of the current projects
are successful, these budgeted funds will prove
inadequate. The Instrumentation Program Plan called for
funding in the amounts of for
FY88-90, respectively; amounts thought to be necessary to
continue all current research. Additionally, ORD is
examining the possibility of increasing its support of the
Instrumentation Program
The figures shown in
the Funding Requirements attachment, and noted above,
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represent a preliminary projection of the funding needed
for this increased effort, assuming, that such an increase
will not be possible until FY90. Equally critical to the
success of the ORD effort is staffing. ORD currently has
one person assigned to polygraph research. The increased
effort will require two additional slots.
POLYGRAPH RESEARCH FACILITY - This facility will
continue to engage in applied polygraph research. The
research done here is intended to provide near term support
to the on-line examiner and ongoing support to the above
working groups. Current near term Proiects include:
Automation of Data Collection;
Computer Assisted
Polygraph Validation; Automated Storage and Retrieval
System for Polygraph Research Literature; and Development
of a Laboratory Facility
Any prototype or methodology
developed in any working group will be tested in this
facility.
For FY88, is necessary in order to fund
additional equipment to complete the data automation system
and to purchase software, supplies, maintenance contracts
and reference books for a research 1ibrry It is
estimated this amount can be reduced to for each year
from FY89, through FY92.
5. The funds and positions needed to accommodate the
Polygraph Research program have been included in the program
plans of ORD and OS/ED. For ORD to meet the agenda, additional
funds and slots are required as discussed in paragraph 4.
Polygraph Division has programmed for the necessary positions
to support this effort in FY89 and the necessary funding
beginning in FY90. However, to meet the OS/PD agenda in FY88
and 89, internal Personnel Security program funds will be
reprogrammed.
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6. The above five year plan represents a coordinated
effort on the part of OS, ORD and OMS t.p meet the Agency's
future polygraph needs. The persons involved are making a
substantial contribution toward this effort.
ATTACHMENTS:
A. Polygraph Research Funding Requirements
B. Polygraph Research Project Schedule
C. Polygraph Research Manpower Requirements
D. Polygraph Instrumentation Program Plan
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