GRILL FLAME AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS

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• Document Release Date: June 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 6, 1981
• Content Type: MFR

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IAOPS-H-S 6 May 1981
SUBJECT: Grill Flame Automatic Data Processing Requirements (U)
1. (U) Reference Grill Flame Progress Report, April 1981.
2. (S/NOFORN) In the course of interim evaluation of the Grill Flame Project,
a very clear need for Automatic Data Processing has been established. This is
substantiated by the following generalized findings:
a. Enormous volume of targeting material and the complexity of formal
record keeping required in its use.
b. The quantity of intelligence based material collected, the required
analytic evaluation of that material, and subsequent formalized reporting
procedures currently in use.
c. Future requirements for real-time analysis of statistical, environmental,
and biomedical inputs (both automated and non-automated), as a result of current
scientific investigations.
3. (S/NOFORN) While a formal, unsolicited proposal for minimal automation
development has been presented by SRI International (reference above), preliminary
discussions with the Automated Systems Activity (ASA),.Arlington Hall Station,
has indicated the approach and method recommended to be less than desirable or
adequate. Essentially, the operating system suggested would be narrow in scope,
overly expensive for the results provided, and lack very basic requirements for
eventual expansion (reference -pars c., above).
4. (S/NOFORN) It is our recommendation to. pursue ADP. development as it pertains
to the Grill Flame effort through normal Army INSCOM, ASA channels, unless in-
ability to meet requirements becomes problematic. To this end a Mission Element
Needs Statement (MENS) is being drafted to address Grill Flame requirements.
The MENS will be developed in three specified parts; 1) minimal need for manage-
ment control and processing, 2) idealized need for current Grill Flame efforts,
and 3) out-year need to permit planning at current +2 year milestone.
5. (S/NOFORN) This does not preclude an understanding for SRI International
requirements in-house during their ongoing. efforts on behalf of both Army and
DIA. Their minimal automation requirements are recognized as necessary to some
degree in support of ongoing scientific efforts. This office stands prepared to
recommend joint (US Army/DIA) funding support to aid.in development of their in-
house requirement, if and when it may become essential to success of the mission.
MURRAY B. WATT
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