Training and Orientation for the EDPOS Program

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04007A000800020009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 9, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT : Training and Orientation for the EDPOS Program
MEMORANDUM FOR: Training Officer, OS
THROUGH : Chairman EDP Committee, OS
1. To properly prepare for an EDP oriented data processing
system, the Office of Security must acquaint its personnel with
the meaning and the impact of the program, as well as train certain
of its personnel to accept new types of responsibilities relating to
EDP. For this purpose, the Office of Security personnel can be
categorized in the following groups:
a. Those individuals who will be involved full time
in such EDP activities as system analysis, programming
or computer operation. The Office of Security personnel
in this program during Phase II will be involved principally
in systems analysis. The individual selected at the beginning
of Phase II should receive sufficient training to properly
perform the duties of a systems analyst.
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b. Senior staff and operating personnel of the Office of
Security on the EDP Policy and Planning Committee. These
individuals should receive sufficient orientation to appreciate
the impact of EDP on the various activities and functions of
the Office of Security.
c. Senior staff and operating personnel other than those
on the Committee. These individuals should be given sufficient
orientation to appreciate the impact of EDP on their assigned
responsibilities.
d. Those individuals who may be designated by division
and staff chiefs to be the liaison or contact point with the
EDPOS study team. These individuals should receive suffi-
cient orientation on EDP so that they can effectively transmit
the operating requirements of their respective divisions to
the study team members so that a realistic system is devised
which will be responsive to the most urgent needs of the office
in appropriate priority.
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e. All employees of the Office of Security should be
given sufficient information about the EDPOS Program so
that there will be no undue alarm concerning job retention
or other unknown and undesirable changes. All personnel
should also be appropriately informed of the planned changes
so that those individuals who are interested in and capable
of retraining can be identified and retrained in time to
obtain a smooth transition from the various manual systems
being utilized to an EDP orientated system.
2. Training Available
a. At the present time, there is no course on the general
subject of EDP being offered within the Agency. The ADP
Staff in cooperation with the Office of Training is now con-
sidering the possibility of a three to five day orientation course
for Agency personnel.
b. At the present time, manufacturers such as IBM, RCA
and Remington Rand offer a great variety of courses on the
various aspects of EDP. Most of the courses offered are
directed to very specific subjects and often times to particular
computers. For example, IBM has many courses on the
programming of particular IBM machines. However, IBM
also offers an executive seminar which is very general in
nature and in three days explains the functions of data
processing, stored program concepts and provides a
description of specific electronic data processing systems
and equipment. Remington Rand offers a similar two day
course also on a frequent basis. RCA (but not IBM or
Remington Rand) offers on a frequent basis, a five day
course on system analysis, which includes the objectives,
the scope and the limitations of system analysis and its
relationship to EDP systems. The systems approach, design
and selections are covered and flow charting exercises are
performed. IBM presents on a frequent basis a five day
course on basic programming concepts. This course includes
the basic concepts of programming, relationship of programming
to system and analysis and to EDP equipment numbering and
assembly systems, compilers, program analysis and flow
charting techniques.
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c. The Civil Service Commission offers a five day
orientation course on the subject of ADP about every
four months. This is an excellent course and offers
advantages over the manufacturers orientation courses
in that it also presents the many aspects of the government
problem in this area.
d. The Ordnance Management Engineering Training
Agency, U. S. Army offers a great number of courses
relating to the general field of ADP subjects on a
regularly scheduled basis at Rock Island, Illinois.
e. The American Management Association also presents
from time to time certain orientation type seminars in
New York City and other cities relating to the ADP field.
f. Although the training facilities available relating
to EDP appear to be scattered among the various government
agencies and manufacturers, it is possible with proper
planning to provide each of the categories of the Office of
Security personnel listed above with the appropriate information
required. This is true because of the functional nature of the
courses. Of course, in any event and at all levels, even if
orientation or training is provided by the manufacturers,
additional information concerning the Agency and Office
of Security relationships to EDP will have to be presented
formally in a planned program by the members of the
study team.
g. The National Archives offers a one week course
frequently on Source Data Automation.
3. The following recommendations are made concerning the
orientation and training of the various Office of Security personnel.
a. The study team member or members should receive:
(1) Either the IBM executive seminar, the
Remington Rand Management Seminar or the ADP
Orientation Course (if it is given)
(2) The RCA systems analysis course
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(3) The IBM basic programming concepts course.
This would then amount to a total of three weeks formal
training.
(4) The Archives Source Data Automation Course
b. The members of the EDP Policy and Planning Committee
as well as selected other senior Office of Security personnel
should receive either the IBM executive seminar or the
Remington Rand Management Seminar and an additional
series of short but formal briefings by the study team con-
cerning the specific CIA and Office of Security data processing
problems.
c. The Division EDP designees should receive the same
as the personnel listed above in N.
d. All Office of Security personnel should receive appropriate
general briefings and current information bulletins from time
to time during the progress of Phase II.
4. The undersigned will be available to assist you in any
manner possible in the implementation of your program in this
field.
ADP Staff Member
EDPOS Study Team
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