APPROVAL OF INITIAL NCS TASKS 1 AND 2

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05779A000100020001-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 13, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 69 S ~~.,
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE AGENT NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20301
NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM MEMORANDUM NO. 2-63
Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT; Approval of Initial NCS Tasks 1 and 2
Memorandum to the Heads of all Executive
Departments and Agencies, dated August 21,
1963, Subject: "Establishment of the National
Communications System"
was required to recommend to the President the Government Depart-
ment or Agency which should be charged with the responsibility for
installation, operation, maintenance, modification (including budgeting
and funding responsibility) of each subsystem or component recommended
for inclusion in the NCS.
government communications assets which should be included im-
mediately in. the National Communications System as subsystems or
components thereof, and those assets which should be considered for
incorporation at a later date. Simultaneously, the Executive Agent
As set forth in an attachment to the referenced memorandum,
the Executive Agent, National Communications System, was required
to submit recommendations to the President identifying those national
On 5 October 1963 the Executive Agent submitted his reports to
the President in accordance. with the aforementioned requirements. The
President has approved these reports and the recommendations contained
therein.
listed in Enclosure 2 considered appropriate for inclusion in the NCS
as responsible for each subsystem or component is as indicated.
Enclosure 2 is a listing of those communications assets which
will be considered for inclusion in the NCS at a later date. Those assets
Enclosure 1 is a listing and description of those communications
assets approved for immediate inclusion as subsystems or components
of the National Communications System. The Operating Agency approved
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will be recommended for such inclusion either with the submission
of the NCS Initial Near-Term Plan, or with the submission of the
first Long-Range Plan. The Near-Term Plan will be submitted to
the President for approval by the Executive Agent in December 1963.
The first bong-Range Plan will be submitted for approval on 1 April
1964.
Solis Horwitz
Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for the
National Communications System
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