ORD INTELLIGENCE SCIENCES LABORATORY FACILITIES FOR ANALYSIS DIVISION PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
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• Publication Date: August 11, 1965
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ORD-2227-65
11 August 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Research and Development
SUBJECT: ORD Intelligence Sciences Laboratory
Facilities for Analysis Division Program
'I. We attach a summary of the principal elements of the
proposed Analysis Division/ORD program which we have discussed
in the last few weeks. We urge the adoption of the general plan of
this program and the consideration of increased funding for FY66.
2. A new and important aspect of our program is concerned
with the implementation of- the analysis portion of an ORD Intelligence
Sciences Laboratory to be set up in Headquarters Building. The
tasks to be carried out by means of this facility, funding and man-
power requirements, and additional background information are
summarized in the attached material.
3. We suggest that the Analysis Division program, which
has been in process of formulation for the past year, is a pertinent
and important element to be included in a possible Agency response
to questions raised by the recent PFIAB memorandum and studies
of the NPIC operations.
V Chief, Analysis
ORD/DD/S&T
Attachment:
An/ORD Summary Program
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Analysis Division/ORD
General Summary of Program Objecti
I. OPERATIONS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Program Objectives:
To describe and update an integrated model of the overall
intelligence process for purposes of management
control and R&D planning.
To determine by a continuing study, the impact on the
intelligence process of new advances in technology;'
e. g. , mass memories, time-shared computers,
multiple terminals, new recording, input, and display
methods, new automated recognition methods, etc.
To design new intelligence processes and systems by the
application of predictive analysis methods, statistical
decision theory, mathematical modeling and operations
analysis techniques.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON MAN-MACHINE PROCESSES
Program Objectives:
To design, develop and show feasibility of processes and
equipment for support of human intelligence processing,
interpretation, and production from textual, speech,
graphic and waveform input data by application of
available time-shared computer. technology involving.
specialized remote terminals and displays.
III. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON LANGUAGE AND TEXT
PROCESSES
Program Objectives:. .
To design, develop, and show feasibility of processes and
equipment for,improved collection, interpretation, and
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production operations concerned with textual and
language data. The R&D program shall include work
on the following:
Textual Input and Transcription Processes
Representation and Indexing Processes
File Organization - Search - and Retrieval Processes
Automated Formatting, Summation, and Reporting
Logical Analysis and Automated Inference
Automated Classification
Machine-Aided Translation
Machine Translation
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON SPEECH PROCESSES
Program Objectives:
To design, develop, and show feasibility of processes and
equipment for optimization of intelligibility of speech
records, and for implementation of an audio pre-
processing system with capabilities for automated
phoneme, work and speaker recognition.
' To design, develop, and show feasibility for operational use
of a speech recognizer and phonetic typewriter for the
continuous input of speech into data-processing systems.
V. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON PATTERN RECOGNITION
Program Objectives:
To design, develop, and show feasibility for operational use
of pattern recognition processes and equipment for
intelligence interpretation and production operations.
The R&D program shall include work on:
Facial Recognition Processes
Handwriting Recognition Processes
Analyst Character and Line-Reading Pencil
Pattern Recognition Processes for Graphic Data
(Photo,
Recognition and Signature Determination Processes
for Waveform Data
Universal-font Character Recognizer
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VI. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON AUTOMATA, SELF-
ORGANIZING AND ADAPTIVE PROCESSES
Program Objectives:
To design, develop, and show operational feasibility of
processes and equipment which can sense, operate on
and use intelligence data in remote and unaccessible
locations and which function as automata, self-organizing
processors, or processors which adapt to environment
or to incoming sensory data.
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Intelli eg nce Sciences Laboratory - Analysis Program
SPECIFIC TASK AREAS
Laboratory facilities under this program are required
for the development, testing, and evaluation of man-machine
procedures, equipment, and subsystems in the following areas:
L Documentary Analysis - Intelligence Production:
Processes which exploit the potential of on-line keyboards,
displays, text analyzers, text recognizers, formatting, and
editing routines, are to be developed and integrated to provide
machine aids for the intelligence analyst.
II. Photo
ter retation:
Processes using computer-controlled graphic scanners at
various levels of resolution, keyboards, input tablets with
scriber input and control, mensuration equipment, visual, video,
and CRT displays, are to be developed further and integrated
into on-line operational subsystems for interpretation of photo,
III. Speech Processing:
Processes using converters, dynamic filtering, -CRT displays,
spectrum displays, voice control, audio output, pattern recog-
nition processes, pitch tracking analysis, are to be developed
and integrated into on-line operational subsystems for enhancing
the intelligibility of speech in audio records, for optimizing
speech signals in noisy records, for automated recognition
methods forwords, phonemes and speakers.
IV. Indexing, Search and Retrieval:
Processes using on-line keyboards, CRT displays, automated
dictionary files, automated -syntactic analyzers and parsers,
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on-line indexing, search and retrieval subsystem for documentary
intelligence data.
recent developments in logical representation, file organization,
and search strategy, are to be developed and integrated into an
Processes using keyboards, CRT displays, input tablets, and
for editing, formatting, correcting, composing, and report
generating from textual input data.
printers are to be developed and integrated into on-line subsystems
. Signal Processing and Correlation:
inputs, computer-controlled cameras, recorders, signal and
pattern recognizers are to be further. developed and integrated
keyboards, CRT displays, transient and delay analyzers, sensor
Processes using converters, signal correlators, comparators,
tation of waveform and multisensor data.
into an on-line subsystem for reduction, analysis, and interpre-.
Processes using data input devices, keyboards, input tablets,
computer-controlled scanners, converters, correlators, visual,
. patterns of, interest in graphic and waveform intelligence data.
and integrated into subsystems for automated and human-
monitored subsystems for recognition.and interpretation of .
and discriminant analysis methods, are to be further developed
video and CRT displays, pre-normalization.property classification'.:"
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ORD/DD/S&T
Intelligence Sciences Laboratory - Analysis Program
Program Emphasis:
Emphasis is on exploitation of newly available computer
technology with remote terminals, program-controlled
devices and time-shared processors for intelligence
analysis and interpretation.
Emphasis is on design and further development of basic man-
machine functions in order to provide essential design
and planning data for full systems implementation. Basic
functions will be integrated into operational subsystems,
tested, and demonstrated in order to show feasibility for
application in Agency operations.
Why Action on this Program is Urgently Recommended Now:
1. New developments in man-machine technology can provide
better tools to deal with the difficult problem of increased
intelligence collection and limited man-power resources.
2. Major changes will-be made in intelligence operations
because of the inpact of man-machine technology. Steps
should be taken to lead in this period to the greatest extent
possible.
3. There is danger that large systems applications will be
attempted before the basic processes required in these
systems have been sufficiently developed. This can be
extremely costly and may actually impede desired progress.
4. There should be an adequate base of technical know-how
and experience within the Agency in order to provide guidance
for management and planning in, a very -complex. and costly
change-over period.
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5. The intelligence community has specialized requirements
which are not being taken care of by developments for the
military and for business applications. The Agency should
take a lead in initiating appropriate R&D for its specialized
needs and it should maintain a position in this area.
6.
Recently certain scientific advisory groups, including the
Communications Panel for the PFIAB, have urged that
more positive action be taken in the man-machine area
in the intelligence community. Studies of the NPIC operation
urge action in the same direction. The program proposed
for the Analysis Division/ORD has been formulated over the
past year. The program demonstrates that the Agency has
been resourceful and active in this important area; however,
expansion and implementation of the program should now be
carried forward.
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ORD/DD/S&T
Intelligence Sciences Laboratory
Analysis Program
Facilities:
The following types of computer on-line devices and
terminals are to be developed, improved, or evaluated in the
analysis program:
typewriters, keyboards, control consoles
CRT displays with light pen input and control
computer-controlled cameras, recorders, and video .
displays
computer voice-controlled units and audio outputs
computer-controlled graphic scanners
input tablets with scriber input and control
printers, plotters
acoustic dynamic filtering equipment
signal correlators, signal comparators
spectrum display equipment
A-D and D-A converters
signal recognizers and transient analyzers
various sensors and transducers
pattern recognition and signature determination equipment
character recognition equipment
manual character reader unit
dynamic and static wall display equipment for graphic
and alphanumeric data ?
Central processor facilities will be provided with capacity to
drive terminals and devices under development and with sufficient
memory to permit testing and evaluation of experimental pre-operational
systems.
It will be a policy in the planning and implementation of this
facility to establish linkages with the OCS facilities where this is
feasible and desirable. Available OCS services are to be used
particularly for input keying and processing of data and-for programming
tasks of common interest.
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ORD/DD/S&T
Intelligence Sciences Laboratory
Analysis Program
Action Schedule FY66
August 1965 Install Teleprinter terminal in An/ORD, Headquarters
Building, in order to carry out querying, searching,
retrieval, analysis and programming experiments
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September Install terminal in An/ORI) to link with
1965 systems for evaluation and experimentation
concerned with the search and retrieval of highly
structured and formatted intelligence data.
October' Initiate projects with
1965 concerned with development of on-line processes for
text processing, search and retrieval.
linked with time-shared system at
New York.
November Complete study of specifications for processor and
1965 essential terminals and computer-controlled devices
for analysis program for the ORD Intelligence Sciences
Laboratory.
Spring 1966 Install processor and on-line terminal equipment in
ORD, Intelligence S)ciences?Laboratory at Headquarters
Building.
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