MINUTES OF THE 28 JULY 1983 WORKING GROUP MEETING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 9, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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12 August 1983, 1330-1430 hours, 7D64 HDQS
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I. Old Business
A. Minutes of the Last Meeting
B. Selection of Working Group Officers
C. Discussion of Working Group Charter
II. Briefing on CIA's Information Structure frorn DDO's
Perspective _]C/MPG/!MS/DO)
III. Discussion of Planning Issues and Methodology
IV. NEXT MEETING: Friday, 26 August 1983, 1400 hours
boom 7D64 HDQS
Topics: Discussion of Planning Issues and Methodology
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9 Aug- 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Information Services Planning Working Group Members
Working Group Coordinator
SUBJECT: Minutes of the 28 July 1983 Working Group Meeting
1. The Information Services Planning Working Group of the CIA
Information Systems l3onrd held a meeting on Thursdav 28 Jas v 198'x,
Participants included
with Clare Rice D Or serving as monitor.
(PSI
convened the meeting and distributed copies of
notes to members on the planning
issues before the group. New members introduced themselves and the
minutes of the last meeting were read and corrected.
asked members to be prepared to select officer(s) of h?,e group at ,!1e
next meeting. The group agreed that any member who wished to
volunteer for the chairmanship should contact
3. presented a proposal that the Planning Group
endorse a request to ODP to make users of Wang terminals capable of
transferring files to other Wang users not on any local net, as well
as to VM terminal users. The group agreed that proposal
should be passed on to the W rkstation Environment Working Group for
their consideration.~ 7
4- P group then took up a discussion of planning issues.
suggested that the group should concentrate on the
pianning process first before a consideration of planning issues.
Several members commented on the plannin procedure (or lack of
procedure) used by their component. remarked that the
DDI has attempted ADP planning but has not been o ally successful.
He commented on the need to tie planning more closely to the budget
process and hoped th&t_ the Working Group would resolve some of the-
planning problems in, time for the next DDI plan to take advantage of
the recommendations. suggested that the group begin by
studying the information s rue ure at CIA and passed out a chart of
how such a structure would look for substantive information flowing
from collection through policymaker. agreed to brief the
next meeting of the working group on a Agency's information
structure as viewed by the DDO, including a discussion of DDO
information systems and services designed to improve the efficiency of
this structure.
5. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 26 August 1983, at
1400 hours in room 7D64, Headquarters.
CONFiDtNT1As.
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Summation of r, an
A. Architecture-"Wire-up" the Agency
Cluster Centers
Washington Area Connectivity
B. Office Automation
Terminals
Software
Secondary
Voice store & forward
Teleconferencing
Artificial Intelligence
C. Processing Systems
Mainframes
D. Carrier Systems and Communications
DC Area
Headquarters Bus
E. Dissemination and Distribution
MH F
Cluster Center. Front/Back end
F. Administrative Systems
Current plans
G. Scientific and 't'echnical. Faci.l_iti.e4:
Specialized processer
Expertise
H. Information and Information Resources
Information Management
Archiving
I. Security
Standard mo-tlierhood
Secure gateways
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28 July 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of the Information Services Planning
Working Group
Working Group Coordinator
Minutes of the 15 July 1983 Working Group Meeting
1. The Information Services Planning Working Group of the CIA
Information Systems Board met for the first time on Friday, 15 Jul
1983. Participants included
Bill Donnellyy (D/OC) and Clare Rice (D/OCR) serving as
2. convened the meeting and distributed copies of the
agenda, a proposed carter for the working group and rosters of the Board
and all working groups, and copies of the Strategic Plan for Information
Handling Systems.
3. After members reviewed the handouts, each introduced him or
herself to the group. Mr. Donnelly charged the group with focusing on
the priority issues and having guidance on those available to the Board,
rather than attempting to deal with all the issues and problems in the
information services arena. He stated that his role in the group wouTd?
be to see that the attentions of the group remained focused and that the
work got done, observed that the group had a "full platter"
before-it and that e Planning Working Group probably was the most import-
ant because it would determine "where we are going in information services."
He cautioned, however, that the group should not hope to effect much change
in the near term because "massive outlays of capital in the past have locked
us into some solutions," but urged the group to think about the future of
5 to 10 years. Mr. Rice reminded the group that its charter was to plan all
information services--not just automated systems--and cautioned members not
to let hardware and technology drive decisions.
4. discussed the first Information Systems Board meeting
held on 27 June 1983 and answered members' questions about the structure,
functions, and goals of the Board and working groups. Members agreed that
representatives from CRES, FBIS and NPIC would be a valuable addition to the
working group. Members also requested copies of the ODP Strategic Plan
(which will be available the first week of August 1983), t Communications
Strategic Plan and the DDI Analytical Support Group Plan a recom-
mended that members exchange their VM user identifications so that those
with access to terminals could exchange information via AIM.
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5. then followed with - briefing on the work of the
Information Handling Architect's staff and summarized that final report.
(An outline of that summary was handed out and is attatched to this
memorandum.) He cautioned working group members to use the Architect's
report as a reference tool or primer, but not to consider it the Bible.
He further discussed some of the problems the earlier group had discov-
ered and assessed the pitfalls of such projects.
6. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 28 July 1983 at
0930 hours it room 7D64, Headquarters. The aroun will continue the
discussion of planning issues begun by
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