DD/S&T CAREER TRAINING COURSE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00724R000100090015-6
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 3, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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NRO REVIEW COMPLETED
MEMORANDUM FOR :
SUBJECT :
Director of Special Activities
DD/S&T Career Training Course
3 November 66
1. The following is a timetable for development of the
OSA course on Fiscal, Budgets, Contracts, Systems Development
and Procedures, a part of the DD/S&T Career Training Program:
3 - 21 April 1967
Final Definition of Scope and Intent
of Course
Preliminary General Course Outline
and Schedule
Final General Course Outline and
Schedule
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'Personnel Requirements, (fields of
interest, etc., for potential lecturers).,
Preliminary Detailed Course Outline,
Personnel Assignment, and Field Trip
Schedule
Final Course Outline, Personnel Assignment.
and Field Trip Schedule
6 March 67 Final Course Syllabus
2. Proposed Intent and Scope of the Course:
Th' r is desi ed to give to the student a broad
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under normal Agency procurement. ufficien e a
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appreciation of the technical and managerial tasks associated
with the development of an intelligence collection system, as
practiced in DD/S&T, both under "normal" channels and under
OSA/OSP channels, as, outlined in attachment I, submitted earlier.
and reproduced here.
As an introduction, the Project Officer's Handbook, now in'drafl
in DD/S&T, will be used as a description of systems management; .'
A+ -41 will be
Course Period:
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21- November 66
28 November 66
5 December 66
19 December 66
16 January 67
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given on the Budget, Contracts and Fiscal aspects to yield an .: .
understanding of the why of the paper work of the project officer.
A review (see attachment I) will be given of the over-a11?
system development cycle from the joint requirement/technical
capability interplay necessary for program inception through
the development of an,operational capability.
As examples of such systems developments, the developmental.
history of OXCART will be traced in moderate detail.
Finally, a field trip will be made, designed to illustrate
in concrete fashion the necessity for the broad overview required.
of the syst er (see attachment II for preliminary
schedule). the students will see the final stage
of system deve o me , here the vehicle, avionics, and sensor.
systems meet and go through final flight test, supported by a
complex of ground support equipment, operations, maintenance,
logistics, handling of take,. etc. The need for close monitorin;
of all the interactions during the whole'system development cycle
can be graphically demonstrated.
As a supplement, brief visits will be made to Burbank
(IDEALIST for demonstration of the early phase of
system development and to Edwards for a demonstration of the
final stages of an operational system (IDEALIST).
3. Outlines on early portions of.the course indicate that.
the NRO/COMOR/303, etc., interfaces and relationships to Agency.
schedules.
.be given and graded.- Such examination will probably need be
given at the end of each of the first two of the three week's
intelligence collection systems, and system tasking will be
covered by OEL in the discussion of ELINT collection efforts,
so such topics need only superficial coverage.
4. The course does require a written or oral examination
Assistant tor ec no ogy
Deputy for
Research and Development
Special Activities
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Attachments 2
As noted above
A(T)D/R&D/0SA/
Distribution:
(3 Nov 66)
1 - D/SA w/att
2 - DD/SA w/att w/att
3 _ D/CDC/DD/S&TI
4 - D/R&D/OSA W/aur-
5 - SS/OSA w/att
6 _ Cmpt/OSA w/att
7 - TB/Compt/OSA w/att
8 - A(T)D/R&D/OSA w/att
9 - A(T)D/R&D/OSA (Chrono) w/att
10 - RB/OSA wo/att
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