WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT FACILITY (WHSR/CMF) WORKING GROUP MINUTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00776R000500060003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 13, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
NIC #5075-83
13 July 1983
FROM David Y. McManis
National Intelligence Officer for Warning
SUBJECT
White House Situation Room and Crisis
Management Facility (WHSR/CMF) Working
Group Minutes
1. The working group met at 1300 hours, 8 July, in the Old
Executive Office Building. Attendees are listed at the
Attachment. After introductory remarks by the Chairman, David Y.
McManis, Dr. Beal demonstrated the operational capability of
equipment in the CMF and emphasized the "requestor-resnonsen
function of the facility. Each Agency/Organization principal (or
representative) will have the means to direct activity or elicit
responses to support the decision-making discussions. The
following discussions highlighted the task of intelligence and
operations organization to make necessary preparations to be able
to respond to their principals in a manner that compliments the
data handling capability of the CMF.
2. Ms. Carol Paquette, DCA/Communications and Control
Engineering Center representative, reviewed the direction to DCA
to meet Project MEDUSA requirements. The architecture study will
focus on:
-- Center-to-center links and networks
--In-center displays, aids and ADP
capabilities
-- System technical capabilities and
-- Integration of systems using existing
equipments.
System capabilities will include secure voice, text, graphics and
video conferencing. An important element of the interface will
be ADP pre-formatted messages. The system will be two-tiered in
that the first tier will connect the key intelligence and
operations centers to the White House. The next phase will add
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important but less-critical centers to the communications net and
include a full operations analysis of agency crisis management
activities and capacities to design the long-term system.
3. Beginning the week of 11 July, a DCA/IBM team will visit
key centers to identify connections and deficiencies in order to
engineer a connectivity scheme to be fully operational by October 84.
4. DCA requested each agency represented to provide
representatives/OPR's to the MEDUSA Project Office, provide
access to each center site, assist in definition of system
capabilities and participate in the requirements definition. It
was very clear that the center chiefs must be full participants
in their agencies' support for the Project.
5. NIO/Warning closed the meeting by urging each agency to
begin to develop a resume' of data that they are willing to have
available on short notice to support their principals and
activities of crisis management groups. Finally, he asked and
Ms. Paquette agreed to provide an update on the DCA/IBM
Conference to be held at the NMCC an NMIC.
Attachment:
As stated (h/w)
Davis V. M tanis
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NIC #5075-83
13 July 1983
SUBJECT: White House Situation Room and Crisis Management
Facility (WHSR/CMF) Working Group Minutes
Distribution (External):
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Arthur Long
Col. David Marshall
Captain Tom Ellsworth
Col. Richard O'Lear
Col. Ralph Mason
IBM Observers
Room 303 Old EOB
DIA/JSO (1C935 Pentagon)
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OJCS/NMCC (26901 Pentagon)
USN/CNO INTELL PLOT (40642Pent)
USAF/ACSI/INE (4A856 Pentagon)
Room 26515 Pentagon
Room 212 Key Building
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NIC #5075-83
13 July 1983
SUBJECT: White House Situation Room and Crisis Management
Facility (WHSR/CMF) Working Group Minutes
Distribution (Internal):
1 - DDI
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC (Mr. Meyer)
1 - VC/NIC (Mr. Waterman)
1 - NIO/W
1 - A/NIO/W
1 - NWS
1 - NIO/W Chron
1 - NIO/W Subject File
1 - DDI Registry
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