IMPLEMENTATION OF OMB CIRCULAR A-44 (REVISED), DATED 16 FEBRUARY 1970

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R004000050042-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: December 21, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Plans Staff, DDS
SUBJECT Implementation of OMB Circular A-44 (Revised),
dated 16 February 1970
REFERENCE Your memorandum, dated 16 November 1970, subject
as above
As requested, the following report of projected goals
of the Office of Medical Services for the period 1 January-30
June 1971 is submitted.
I. Management Effectiveness Goals
Improved operating efficiency: During this six months
period we expect an improvement in operating efficiency through
the continued development of a practice already started. This
is the practice of bringing OMS division and staff chiefs more
effectively into the program planning process. OMS officials
are MDs or PhDs whose basic abilities relate to the professional
aspects of their jobs. Program planning -- particularly the PPB
type -- is a different experience requiring special attention by
the components. During January and part of February 1971 we shall
be drafting the OMS Program Plan for the period FY 1973-1977.
Division and staff chiefs will work closely with our planning
officials and will contribute to a greater degree than they ever
have before. The result should be a program submission to which
all of these officials will have made significant contributions.
The experience these division and staff chiefs will have thus
received should improve our future planning and operating effi-
ciency.
II. Cost Reduction Goals
Reduction in unit cost for laboratory testing materials:
The period 1 January-30 June 1971 will be the first full six
months period for the automated multiphasic biochemical profiling
in the Clinical Division laboratory. The heart of this new system
is the SMA 12 Jr., a laboratory device that will automatically
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run 12 tests on one blood sample (30 such samples can be pro-
cessed in one hour.). The chemicals required by the SMA 12 Jr. --
reagents -- cost $2 for each battery of 12 tests whereas reagents
required for tests performed manually as before cost $1 for each
test -- or $12 if all 12 tests were to be run. Thus in the new
system costs for reagents are roughly one sixth of the costs of
the previous manual procedure. This, of course, is the type of
economy that makes multiphasic screening appropriate. Our
program plans provide for such a screening program to enable
us to be accessible to many of the Agency employees that we do not
now see.
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