FBIS PERFORMANCE GOALS

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 24, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
FBIS Performance Goals
FROM: R. W. Manners
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FBIS-0029-88
Director, Foreign Broadcast
Information Service
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24 February 1988
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FBIS-0029-88
24 February 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
FROM: R. W. Manners
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
SUBJECT: FBIS Performance Goals
REFERENCE: Your Memo, dtd 8 Feb 88, Same Subject
1. Attached are the FBIS performance goals for 1988, 1989, and 1990.
We have expanded on our individual goals in support of the overall
directorate goals and have updated and expanded upon the specific
business area goals.
2. You will also find a career development goal that I believe is a
modest start in the direction of integrating our strategic plan with our
career development objectives. It has two major components addressing
both skills developed and assignment/work experience. We hope to expand
on this concept as the resource implications become clear.
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SUBJECT: FBIS Performance Goals
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DIRECTORATE GOAL
LONG-TERM GOAL: Develop a program to assure, on a continuing basis,
foreign language expertise needed throughout the Directorate.
Several SU offices require a foreign language capability, but
current procedures for recruiting, hiring, and retaining individuals with
such skills are unsatisfactory. We must explore new avenues, including
improved compensation and grade structure; the use of the new "critical
skills" legislation to pay for the college educations of individuals who
will specialize in needed foreign languages; improved Agency training,
particularly in reading and aural skills; and increased use of full-time
external training for current employees.
1988 Goals:
o Review and make recommendations to improve compensation and grade
structure for linguists. Recommendations by 1 August 1988.
o Encourage Agency sponsorship of university-level foreign language
program.
o Ensure that OTS personnel with language skills can continue to be
rewarded under the Agency's Language Incentive Program.
o Explore ways to find students who will specialize in specified
foreign languages. Specific plan by 1 July 1988.
1989 Goals:
o Work with OTE to improve Agency language training program to
include training in aural and reading skills, tailored to DSO' needs.
o Develop a graduate level coop and/or scholar program for foreign
language students.
o Implement FBIS/Production Group Pilot Productivity Initiative.
1990 Goal:
o Encourage Agency support for concept of Foreign Language and
International Studies Foundation.
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DIRECTORATE GOAL
LONG-TERM GOAL: Increase DSO' interaction with the DI, DO, and DA, as well
as with other Intelligence Community agencies.
As a Directorate, we must be diligent in tying our projects to our
customers' requirements, and we must ensure that what we deliver is what
they wanted. We must ensure that DSO. employees have a feel for the
intelligence process and products so they will deliver relevant projects.
We will focus on obtaining other directorates' support for our initiatives.
We will continue to refine and improve our planning process. Finally, we
must work more effectively with other Intelligence Community agencies, such
as NSA, to obtain their support and funding for Agency programs and improve
their responsiveness to the Agency's needs.
1988 Goals:
o The Foreign Broadcast Information Service will consult with Community
consumers to revalidate product requirements and adjust long-term plans for
its modernization program to accommodate those requirements.
o Provide the technical capability to support the DI's near-term
requirements for FBIS' TV and Pressfax products.
o Conduct a survey, by means of a written questionnaire, of
representative FBIS consumers in CIA/DI, State/INR and other offices.
Survey to focus on products and services and to include quality and
timeliness. Conduct mini-surveys of CIA/DI offices on future requirements
in monitoring of television, with emnha is on video aspects of television,
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1989 Goals:
o Provide the capability to deliver JPRS products to SAFE.
o Implement the AFS - VM/AIM interface to improve timely and
substantive exchanges with the DI.
o Ensure the full functionality of AFS is delivered.
1990 Goals:
o Ensure the technical capability exists to provide FBIS' TV products
to selected IC members over OIT'sL ilfiber optic network.
o Develop a detailed plan to implement distributed/digital collection
and enhanced information handling systems for the out years.
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1991 Goal:
o Expand FBIS' collection capability to support enhanced collection
activities (i.e., digital collection, data base exploitation).
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LONG-TERM GOAL: Improve Career Development for FBIS staff and foreign
national employees.
Recognizing that training and assignment are two major components of
career development, FBIS intends to undertake a two-part program to
ensure that its junior staff employees acquire, in a systematic way, both
the skills and the experience base to succeed and progress in their
careers.
PART I
The Mandatory first-line supervisory training provided by OTE is not
available to many junior employees who in the field will manage foreign
national monitorial staffs but who do not meet the OTE requirement that
they already supervise at least three people; OTE also lacks the capacity
to enroll these lower-graded employees. FBIS has the additional
requirement to instill an awareness of culture-specific approaches to
managing foreign national employees of diverse backgrounds; such training
is not available through OTE. FBIS will, therefore, establish an
in-house supervisory training program for its junior officers.
1988 Goals:
o Conduct needs assessment for overseas personnel.
o Collect and assess available course materials/programs that meet
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the needs identified in the assessment.
o Prepare management training curriculum to include supervisory
training and counseling skills courses, with follow-on training in
managing cultural diversity.
1989 Goals:
o Enroll first group of FBIS junior editors in training program.
o Assess relevance and usefulness of training.
1990 Goal:
o Expand program to include all FBIS staff employees who are or soon
will be assigned to supervisory positions.
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PART II
To build perspective that will enhance prospects for advancement,
employees must experience a variety of assignments and appointments in
FBIS. To that end, FBIS will develop a system of assignments and
work/project opportunities to provide broad and relevant experience for
junior officers who have been identified by FBIS evaluation subpanels.
1988 Goals:
o Identify or develop appropriate positions and work/project
opportunities to be included in program.
o Prepare assignment/opportunity schedule that looks ahead three
years.
o Publicize schedule.
o Expand FBIS Personnel Planning Questionnaire to include
developmental assignments/projects.
o Expand charter of FBIS Assignment Panel to cover headquarters
assignments/opportunities for employees GS-13 and above.
1989 Goal:
o Make first assignments using new system.
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OPEN SOURCE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING BUSINESS AREA
LONG-TERM GOAL: Complete the technical modernization of the DST's
capability to collect and disseminate information from foreign public
media as a service of common concern.
The DST's 47-year-old Foreign Broadcast Information Service began a
multi-year technical modernization program in 1984 to update its
essentially World War II-type procedures by automating information
handling, improving field-Washington communications, and increasing the
monitoring of foreign media satellites. Since this catch-up
modernization program was started, successive budget reductions have
eroded its projected scope and slowed the pace of its implementation.
Recent additional budget reductions further threaten the program's
momentum.
1988 Goals:
o Replan the entire modernization program while maintaining its
momentum and cardinal scope.
o Work with Community consumers to revalidate product requirements
and adjust long-term modernization plans to accommodate those
requirements.
1989 Goal:
o Achieve FOC of Classified Segment of FBIS Headquarters automation.
1990 Goal:
o Achieve FOC of FBIS field bureau automation.
1991 Goal:
o Achieve automation IOC of FBIS overseas units.
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OPEN SOURCE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING BUSINESS AREA
LONG-TERM GOAL: Establish an Open Source Center (OSIX) that will serve
the needs of all U.S. Government consumers of open source material by
extending the Community's open source exploitation capabilities,
establish an archive of open source material accessible to the rest of
the U.S. Government and centralize tasking, exploitation, and retrieval
functions. CIA will provide the positions to plan, develop, and operate
the Center, as well as the related personal services and management
support funds. The open source community will provide all nonpersonal
services funds for development, engineering, procurement, facilities, and
office space.
1988 Goal:
o Ascertain the continued viability of the FBIS FY 1990 New
Initiative on the Open Source Center, which would provide the positions
to establish the Center. This initiative is currently over DCI Guidance.
1989 Goals:
o Develop in cooperation with the Intelligence Community members a
comprehensive concept of operations for OSIX.
o Assuming CIA agrees to absorb the New Initiative within Guidance
and external funding is secured, establish Program Office.
1990 Goals:
o Conduct a revised requirements definition for OSIX.
o Conduct system definition study for OSIX.
o Begin system development.
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OPEN SOURCE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING BUSINESS AREA
LONG-TERM GOAL: Establish an FBIS printshop in the Reston area and
reassume responsibility for the printing and distribution of FBIS
publications.
1988 Goals:
o Submission of FY-1991 New Initiative for FBIS In-House Printing
Facility.
o Discussions with Office of Logistics for coordination on PUD
expansion plans.
o Survey and testing of commercial printing firms.
1989 Goals:
o Obtain PUD agreement on turnover of positions and space for
facility.
o Conduct requirements definition study.
o Begin planning and location search for facility.
o Evaluate modern printing technologies and develop alternative
printshop implementation plans.
o Obtain dispensation from GPO to establish an unclassified FBIS
printshop.
1990 Goals:
o Conduct market search for equipment.
o Conduct consumer survey on current needs.
o Begin recruiting.
1991 Goals:
o Begin site preparation and equipment acquisition.
o Achieve IOC of facility.
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OPEN SOURCE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING BUSINESS AREA
LONG-TERM GOAL: Guarantee continued access to Central American
open-source media and improve collection of Caribbean open sources and
the Central American press.
Given the deterioration of U.S.-Panamanian relations, the
continued presence of the FBIS Panama Bureau cannot be guaranteed.
Currently we obtain critical Central American coverage (radio,
television audio, and press) via telephone lines from Central American
capitals, through Nicaragua, to Panama Bureau; we have, however,
developed some backup capability. Various Caribbean sources are not
covered adequately (Dominican Republic and the north coast of South
America).
1988 Goals:
o Complete preparation of a fallback plan for FBIS Panama Bureau,
discussing stay-behind capability with U.S. military components.
o Explore desirability of transferring Panama Bureau's
affiliation from Embassy to military.
o Pursue with the Embassy in Costa Rica and with Agency and
Department of State offices the establishment of a bureau or a remote
monitoring site in Costa Rica; conduct reception survey in Costa Rica.
o Conduct listening surveys in the Caribbean area, seeking to
identify a site for a remote monitoring operation or a bureau capable
of recouping most of the coverage lost with the closing of Panama
Bureau; surveys will also focus on Caribbean targets not well heard
now.
O Augment Key West Bureau capabilities through improved antenna
arrays (including small ROSET) and linkage to Central America remote
sites; arrange for influx of additional staff (editors, monitors,
communicators).
O Establish a remote monitoring capability in Haiti.
O Install second ROSET at Paraguay Bureau.
1989 Goals:
O Continue reception surveys and attempt to determine p8litical
feasibility of setting up operations at selected sites.
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o Define scope of new bureau's mission (to improve Caribbean
collection, to augment Key West Bureau's coverage, or to replace
Panama Bureau).
o Study feasibility of additional CONUS ROSET, at Independent
Hill or Langley.
o Develop a range of technical collection and communications
alternatives to assist in contingency planning.
1990 Goals:
o Identify location for new Caribbean bureau or remote operations
in the area and prepare for bureau installation in FY 1991.
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