COMPONENT ANNUAL REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00052R000100020019-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 19
• Content Type: REPORT

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COMPONENT ANNUAL REPORT
SECTION I. GENERAL
1. Section I of the Component Annual Report is to provide
an introduction to and a context for the discussion of accomplish-
ments with respect to specific objectives in Section II. This
introduction may thus appropriately discuss the external
operating situation or environment of the Component, focusing
on those aspects of the situation which facilitate or impede the
accomplishment of its mission. Specific events or developments
which occurred during the reporting period and which affected
the general accomplishment of the Component's objectives should
be identified.
2. Section I also may include an ov--rview of the operating
and management strategies of the Component in pursuance of its
mission. It may be necessary, for, example, for a Component
to explain its general approach to its missions and objectives,
in order to render separate discussions of its specific objectives
intelligible.
3. Section I may also identify and address factors of a
general nature (non-operational) which affected performance
negatively or positively. For example, a renewed outbreak of
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the Arab-Israeli war should be an external situational factor
which required diversion of resources and slow-down of
other activities, and should be mentioned under paragraph 1,
above, in discussing the operating situation. On the other
hand, a reorganization or realignment within a Directorate
which substantially affected the reporting component could
be identified as a general factor of an internal nature.
4. Changes in objectives midstream (e.g., issuance
of a new objective halfway through the operating year)
should be identified and discussed.
SECTION II. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
5. This Section will address each objective of the
Component successively, and discuss results achieved--
full accomplishment, degree of progress or lack of
progress--and other factors, in accordance with the
following outline:
a. Objective 1 (identify either DCI, DD
or Component)
(1) Statement of Objective
(2) Action'Plan
A paragraph to describe the plan followed
and explain "benchmarks, " "milestones"
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(intermediate task targets), or standards
used for measuring progress.
(3) Progress and Shortfall
Description of results achieved: full
accomplishment, or failing full accomplish-
ment, a measure of the progress made during
the year in terms of "milestones" passed,
actions completed, or intermediate
standards reached. This section is
the heart of the report and should be
treated fully and seriously, avoiding
any masking of shortfall or any short-
fall, or treatment that makes lack of
progress look like success.. This section
should be developed in adequate detail and
fact as to communicate and demonstrate
exactly where the Component stands along
the scale of achievement. It is not expected
that all objectives can be fully or even satis-
factorily accomplished in the given time frames
This section should be developed on a statistical
or quantitative basis to the extent that statist ics
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or quantitative measurements are applicable and
useful to illustrate or prove a point. The numbers
should then be fleshed out in factual and descriptive
narrative.
(4) Problems
Problems and obstacles relative to the objective
and encountered in the course of implementing the
action program should be identified and described.
Measures taken to overcome problems and obstacles
should be identified, or measures taken to assure
that the obstacles will not reoccur should be
described.
(5) Future Plans
The Compone.,:.L way .,wish to modify the action
plan, or to develop a new one. New benchmarks
should be specified.
Dollar costs and manyear commitment to the
objective should be estimated. This will undoubtedly
require estimating and pro-rating across projects,
activities and organizational sub-units. Accounting
precision is not necessary, but the approximations
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should nonetheless be as good as possible.
Components should retain for at least one
year the worksheets used to develop these
estimates.
b. Objective 2.
As above
c. Objective 3.
etc.
SECTION III. OTHER ACTIVITIES
6. This section should be used to identify and describe
significant activities conducted within or by. the Component
which are not subsumed under one of the listed DCI, DD or
Component objectives. Each separate significant activity
should carry a dollar cost and many ear estimate in
accordance with Section II above.
7. For example, a Component may have one or several
major activities which are routine in nature and constitute
infrastructure for the visible outputs of the Component but
are not easily identifiable with any single output.
SECTION IV. RESOURCES SUMMARY
8. The. Component will merely pull the dollar and man-
year estimates from Sections II and III above and recapitulate
them in a single table.
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SECTION V. RECOMMENDATIONS
9. In this section the Component may provide a free
discussion of the objectives, feasibility, strategy changes.,
or resource or other requirements. The Component may
wish-to recommend modification or deletion of certain
objectives, addition of new objectives. It may wish to
discuss new equipment ideas or requirements, new or
different training or personnel requirements, and so on.
The common thread for such discussions, analyses and
recommendations is the problems encountered and
experiences gained in attempting to meet the Component's
specified objectives.
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