IMPACT OF FY 1980 TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION REDUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83T00573R000300050020-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: January 3, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, DDA Management Staff
FROM: Bruce T. Johnson
Director, Office of Data Processing
SUBJECT: Impact of FY 1980 Travel and Transportation
Reduction
REFERENCE: Comptroller's memorandum, dated 19 December 1979,
Same Subject (COMP 79-1632)
1. The "eight percent" reduction in travel from the 1980
Congressional Budget is actually a 16% reduction from our actual
1979 travel expenditures. Further, the operational impact is
magnified by the fact that approximately twenty percent of our
1979 travel expenses were non-discretionary and that dollar
amount will not change substantially in FY 1980. Thus, the
reduction in ODP discretionary operational travel is approx-
imately 20%, a reduction which we do not believe is tolerable.
2. The discretionary travel is almost exclusively to
conferences and meetings conducted by private businesses and
the government, all designed to update and maintain the pro-
ficiency of participants and to keep them current on new
developments in the computer field. Without regular and
continuing attendance by ODP personnel in such gatherings,
our standards of expertise will soon fall below that level
of knowledge needed to maintain CIA's central computer system
in the forefront of one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing
technological applications in our society.
3. There has been another development since the preparation
of the 1980 Congressional Budget which may well have a heavy
impact on our 1980 travel expenses. This is the stepped up
efforts to install computer equipment in selected overseas
stations to facilitate data exchange with Headquarters.
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While we cannot predict the number of trips that ODP personnel
will have to make in support of the program we are reasonably
certain that this type of overseas travel will begin in 1980.
It is possible of course that some or even all of the overseas
travel by ODP personnel will be paid for by the DD/O component
concerned. However, we feel it prudent to identify funds in our
budget so that we can be assured that we can be fully responsive
to our role in this new development. To the extent that this
proves to be the case, our conference and consultation funds
will be further reduced.
It is requested that you make every effort to
restore the ODP travel funds to at least the level of 1979
actual expenses, or make whatever budgetary arrangements you
consider appropriate so that we may continue at least at last
year's level of attendance at computer conferences.
Att: 1980 Travel Plan
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - AS/ODP
2 - ODP Registry
2 - O/D/ODP
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