DIRECTIONS FOR SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00874R000300130029-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 14, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
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14 AUG 1985
STAT
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Information Technology
FROM: Richard J. Kerr
Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: Directions for SAFE
1. You have asked that we lay out in writing how the Direc-
torate of Intelligence wants the SAFE program to proceed.
2. The Directorate's first priority is access to existing
(that is to say, Delivery 1) functionality. This message is not
a new one; we have consistently placed universal access to'SAFE
as our top priority.
3. As the attached graph shows, transitioning to Delivery 2
under the current plan would seriously impede our progress in
working toward access to SAFE. for all DI personnel. We are not
prepared to defer working toward universal access for the
extended period--a year or more--that the plan entails. We will
accept delivery of the new software and conduct acceptance test-
ing of it, but we will defer initiating the transition to produc-
tion use of Delivery 2 until you can devise a plan that does not
require that we cease adding users to SAFE for an extended
period.
4. In the interim, we intend to add new users to Delivery 1
as quickly as our training and support resources will permit.
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Attachment:
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SUBJECT: Directions for SAFE
DDI/ASG
(12 Aug 1985)
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OIT ;/ 0666-85
16 August--1985
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
Director of Information ec no ogy
FROM: William F. Donnelly
SUBJECT: Acceptance of SAFE Requirement
REFERENCE: Memo from ADDI, dtd 14 August 85, Subject: Directions for SAFE
1. OIT accepts the requirement stated in paragraph 2 of reference. As we
understand the requirement, the DI wants "universal access to SAFE" for all DI
personnel. To OIT this means tha'c the DI wants a terminal on the desk of each
DI employee. These terminals are to be hooked to the mainframe computers in the
Northside Computer Center. These terminals are to provide each employee access
to SAFE Delivery 1. I have directed my staff to take appropriate action to
modify SAFE requirements to reflect our acceptance of this requirement.
2. Further, as stated in paragraph 3 of reference, the DI will conduct
acceptance testing of SAFE Delivery 2 which, hopefully, will lead to acceptance
of the software. However,.the DI will defer transitioning to the use of
Delivery 2 until a plan is devised that does not require that the DI cease
adding users to SAFE for an extended period of time.
3. Comment: The "idea" that there is to be "universal access to SAFE" for
all DI employees has been discussed by in the past over lunch. I
was then the Director of Communications. This having been said, written
requirements given to ODP for SAFE do not reflect "universal access to SAFE" as
a goal to be attained in the near future. The written record states h he
objective was to have SAFE users y -August 1985, 0 by 1986 and by
1987. Unfortunately, as a result, the Northside Computer Center was sized for
fewer users in the 1985-87 timeframe than you now hope to give access. This
fact has to be faced by both of our organizations. Frankly, it may not be
possible at this time, or in the next several monthst to have "universal access
to SAFE" for all DI employees no matter how hard we try to meet that request.
4. As you are aware, there is the issue of degraded service or reduced
reliability. Bob Gates made a particular point of raising this topic when we
met in March of this year. I'm new to OIT. The old ODP may not have gone all
out to support the DI, but OIT will! However, for a host of reasons, including
pride and the reputation of OIT, we don't aim to degrade service or reduce
reliability in the course of expanding the number of SAFE terminals in the DI.
William onne
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