PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND DIRECTING THE TID WORK EFFORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 8, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director, NPIC
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8 June 1964
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SUBJECT: Planning, Scheduling and Directing the TID Work Effort
1. From TID's point of view, the direction and scheduling of the
national PI activities is presently very well carried out. Over the last
six months, TID has developed an effective working relationship with PAG
for providing support to the national PI effort. Project scheduling,
priorities, project scope, etc., are all coordinated and effectively
handled between TID and PAG. In coordination with PAG, TID continues to
work on minor problems within the major scheduling effort, but over-all
the scheduling operation is being well directed. This permits TID to
better direct and plan its national PI support effort.
2. A parallel working relationship is being developed with PID to
handle departmental PI support work. This relationship, though not as
far advanced or currently as well worked out as the relationship with PAG,
Is well in hand and poses no immediate problems.
3. Direct support of the PI activities, both national and depart-
mental, accounts for approximately one-third of TID's work effort. Of
the remaining two-thirds, all but a token amount falls in the category
of national general PI and non-PI support. This work effort is comprised
of a wide range of activities including: the directing of film titling,
film evaluation, plotting, coverage statistics, attitude and time deter-
mination, ephemeris and other work performed for each mission; the analysis
of new camera systems, preparation of technical manuals and evaluation
of test materials; the compiling of coverage statistics and preparation
of technical briefing boards; support of the EET and other system per-
formance studies; and other technical work. The majority of this work
Is performed in accordance to standing requirements for handling each
mission coming into NPIC and for providing technical support to the Center.
The remainder of the national non-PI work performed by TID is in com-
pliance to work requests from a variety of sourcarreceived via several
channels. These requests for work accomplishmentnTor the most part
received directly by TID and processed through the Operations Staff to
record the request and establish a project number. TID usually suggests
the priority that should be placed upon such projects, because TID is in
the best position to evaluate the urgency and estimate the work effort
involved. Additional requests for TID support received through the
Operations Staff are given a priority prior to assignment to TID. The
above procedures are working very well.
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SUBJECT: Planning, Scheduling and Directing the TID Work Effort
4. Operating under the general policy that national projects have
precedence over departmental projects, and adhering to the priorities for
PI projects established by PAG and PID, TID schedules its work effort
accordingly. Guidance on work priority for non-PI projects is provided
by the Chief, TID. Just preceding and following the input of a new KH-4
or KH-7 mission, TID's workload suddenly reaches a peak. During this
peak period, very careful project work scheduling must be maintained so
that TID can continue work on national PI projects yet simultaneously
devote extensive effort on the new input. When necessary, and in
coordination with PAG and PID, project due dates are adjusted so that
both PI and mission processing requirements are accomplished within the
time limit prescribed. During this period, TID usually has to resort to
a certain amount of overtime applied both to PI and non-PI projects.
Other than during these peak workload periods, conflict between PI and
non-PI projects is usually not a difficult problem. The balance of work
effort between national FT and departmental PI is worked out with the
close liaison between TID, PAG and PID.
5. As a result of positive direction from PAG, better liaison with
PID and improved housekeeping within TID, the Chief, TID, feels that for
projects worked primarily within TID he can now adequately direct the work
priorities without further guidance. This was not the case six months
ago. The Chief, TID, anticipates that he will be able to continue adequate
internal direction and guidance of priority work efforts carried on within
his Division. However, when a non-PI project involves other divisions in
addition to TID, then TID consults with the Assistant for Operations in
establishing or adjusting priorities. The priority of one such project that
is under discussion at the moment is the TID film evaluation reports. TID
is requesting that the priority of these reports be upgraded so completion
will be accomplished more rapidly than at the present. The reports involve
TID, the Publications Division and the Production Services Division.
6. For some non-PI projects worked in TID the determination of whether
the project will be designated as a national or a support project continues
to be a gray area.that needs clarification. There is not now, and there
may not be, a clear line of distinction here. An example of such a project
is CIA/OSA requesting TID to conduct a camera system performance evaluation
of a 112B camera test. The requester is departmental, but the scope is
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certainly national. The same question comes up when a similar request
involves '0' material. As the Assistant for Operations is responsible
4for the control and assignment of all non-PI work, this determination
is, for the most part, coming from the Operations Staff, but not with the
consistency TID feels there should be.
7. The type of work that TID has difficulty finding time to accom-
plish is characterized by the following: low priority support projects,
error analysis, preparing the backlog of statistical information for
automatic data processing, developing new techniques, and exploratory
analysis.
8. In summary, from the TID point of view the decision to divide
the control of NPIC work between the Assistant for Photo Analysis and
the Assistant for Operations was a good one. The clear cut establishment
of this responsibility has been an assist to TID. At present the
scheduling of production for national PI projects is being more clearly
defined than for non-PI projects. This is probably due in part to the
fact that it is a "cleaner package" to work with. TID does not have a
problem scheduling PI and non-PI work that is accomplished primarily
within the Division. It does look for and receives. guidance and decisions
from the Assistant for Operations on priorities and scheduling non-PI
projects that involve TID and one or more other divisions within NPIC.
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