INFORMATION SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06207A000100040025-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: July 11, 1972
• Content Type: BULL

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SPECIAL BULLETIN
O F F I C E O F T R A I N I N G
11 July 1972
To: All Training Officers of the Agency
INFORMATION SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM
The executive responsibility for the USIB sponsored Information
Science Program, formerly under the Defense Intelligence Agency, has
been assumed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Extensive efforts
are underway to present short one-to-four week courses in information
science during FY 1973 for the Agency and the Intelligence Community.
Under the Office of Training the new program will present three
courses given at Building T-4 for representatives from CIA and other
members of the Intelligence Community. It will also present one-
to-three day segments within selected internal Agency courses.
The first course to be offered is "Application of Information
Science to Intelligence Functions." This course is designed to
introduce to career intelligence professionals the basic elements
of the interdisciplinary field of Information Science. The course
material is readily understood by those with no technical or
scientific education or training. A professional level (GS-9-14)
assignment in intelligence is the only prerequisite.
Each student is taught to use and "converse" with a computer
terminal, as a basic tool in his work. He is given a fundamental
knowledge of computer systems, systems analysis and design, operations
research, probability theory, statistics, information storage and
retrieval systems, modeling, gaming and simulation--the basic concepts
of the technology of information science. Time will be devoted to
exercises and case studies in which the student gains experience in
applying to an actual, logically synthesized, intelligence problem
such techniques as linear programming, queuing, network analysis,
correlation and regression, etc. In the last week of the course,
the analyst will participate in intelligence problem exercises in
which he will employ the techniques and procedures learned.
Objectives: Particular attention has been given,in the design of
this course, to meeting firm objectives of significant value to the
student. These objectives are:
a. To familiarize the student with the terminology and basic
techniques of information science.
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b. To develop the student's capability to identify and
define problems in his professional intelligence field by using
information science techniques and to solve such problems at
the elementary level.
c. To improve the student's communications capabilities
in conferring with information science professionals on more
difficult problems and requirements.
d. To encourage the student to pursue the development of
his own, and his component's, information science resources
and capabilities.
e. To provide a wider range of rational choices to the
professional in the analysis, problem solving and decision
making tasks of his functional area of responsibility through
his introduction to the basic tools and language of information
science.
DATES 11 September - 6 October 1972
0900 - 1600 4 weeks full-time
LOCATION Building T-4, Room 100, Anacostia Annex
U.S. Naval District Washington
Washington, D.C. 20390
REGISTRATION Form 73, "Request for Internal Training," should
be submitted to OTR/ISS/AIR, Room 1036, Chamber
of Commerce Building, by 25 August 1972, through
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