OC STAFF COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION SAVINGS THROUGH THE USE OF COMPUTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04723A000100060051-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: REPORT

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CATIONS DIVISION
e Use of Computers
Savings accruing to 00-SOD arid. ultinately to the Agency through
use of computers are as follows:
Saved Positions:
CATRAN - (Cable Traffic Analysis) - A computer-based program
for the treatment of management-oriented statistica relative to
the operation of the Agency's communications system. The use of
computers in the management analysis of our world-wide communica
tions activity has resulted in a savings of 1500 manhours per
year. The saved manhours are applied within the Staff Communica
tions Division to other system operation requirements.
b. Assumption of heavier workload without increased nuMber of
people:
25X1 (Ocs support to OC's Communication Equipment Pro-
granrnirig - Storage end selective retrieval of data
he issue, installation, and use of non-expendable
These programs have made possible our ability to
0% increase in workload at Headquarters level without
necesaity of requesting additional manpower, and has enabled
us to standardize informational and reporting methods and proce-
dures, thus making the data base more accurate ani meaningful.
This, in turn, leads to upgrading the effectiveness of our equip-
ment programming effort.
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Doing otherwise impossible things:
(1) DATACOM
(a) There are two UNIVAC 9300 systems and one UNIVAC 100h
system installed in' 'These systems are used as
data communications terminals to:
) Transmit and receive data in the form of cards,
tapes, paper tapes, and/or page copy to and from
foreign field stations.
Serve as a small, temporary, store-and-forward
eh between the DD/SIC network stations and the
Go systems.
ta Serve as a remote job entry to t
Systems allowing I)/8&T to upgrade and retrieve data from
resident programs.
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(b) The types of data that the network processes and the
time elements, plus the accuracy needed in the integrity of the
data, makea it necessary that a data communications terminal of
the UNIVAC 9300/1004 type be utilized. The data could not be
Processed manuallY or with conventional communications terminal
gear.
(c) The benefits derived fnmn the use of the data terminal
gear include the capability to provide the customer with a feat
and secure transmission in a machine language that he can further
manipulate in larger data processing systems. some DD/8&T pro-
jects require real-time data communications purport available
only through the use of data terminal equipment.
(2) PDP-8
This computer, installed, maintained and operated exclusively
e BCD environment, performs digital engineering functions
high-speed mathematical calculations as well as design and
of components and asseMblies. Its use obviates the neceseity
to procure about $35,000 len:th of complex test and instrumentation
equipment and enables us to simulate equipment interface systems
which are otherwise very expensive or not readily available.
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