NOTES ON IP BOARD MEETING 30 NOVEMBER 1970

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• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
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• Publication Date: November 30, 1970
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Notes on 7..1.E ;Bo.i rd Meek
30 Noy(!nfl)er 1970
Chairman said DD/I, DD/S, and DD/P comments on ASPIN
were in hand and that DD/S&T comments were expected by end of
week (4 December 1970). Copies of all to be made available to each
IPC. Chairman ascertained that DD's or A /DD's in each Directorate
are aware of the contents of his own IPC's submission.
Chairman mentioned the Inspector General's study now in
preparation on Information Processing. IPC's felt it likely the
Inspector General's study will include comments on selected major
functions of ADP and on the ADP organization issue. Paper expected
early part of 1971.
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Extended discussion touching on several issues: e. g. , ADP
Career Service; concept of Executive Advisor to the Executive
Director-Comptroller on ADP... supported. by IP staff; mechanisms
for approval of new ADP applications; notion of user budgeting for
ADP services; relationship of Historical Staff, Records Management
Staff, Archives Staff, and IP staff; ASPIN's recommendations on
R&D for information processing said he expects DD/S&T
position by end of December).
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Chairman indicated discussion would be continued next
Monday (7 December). He asked to prepare 25X1
statement of objectives on Information Processing in CIA... for
the next meeting.
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7 December 1970
Meeting chaired by
1. IHC Matters:
a. File and Program Catalog:
Evaluation showed not cost/effective. Will be
discontinued with last issue due out in December 1970.
DIA has proposed that each agency might exchange
copies of machine listings of machine files. O will
b. Revised Content Control Code at State:
State Department will run experiment using its
revised CCC.code on traffic originating at three overseas
posts. (CCC intended to serve as aid in dissemination and
perhaps in retroactive retrieval. )
c. Proposed ARPA follow-on to COINS:
ARPA's ambitious plan for initiating an electronic
file network for community has collapsed. ARPA does
havel however, with which to sponsor further
study of the concept. 0 suggested that the notion of
linking the community's various intelligence operations
centers bears watching.
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2. DoD Data Codes:
I asked if Board members felt need for more assertive
role for UiA concerning DoD data codes which may tend to become
"Federal General Standards". General feeling of Board was that this
is not a problem to CIA, at least at this time, in part because the DoD
codes so far have not related to data structures of significance to CIA.
It was pointed out that DoD does need such standard codes for its many
interrelated processing activities, that CIA processing is not comparable,
and that CIA would not, in any case, be obligated to follow a code unsuited
to CIA requiren-ients.
Discussion of ASPIN' (Continued):
suggested the DD/I`s consolidation and restatement of
ASPIN r. i endations be used for Board discussion, vice the original.
Considerable discussion of the ADP organization issue mainly
in effort to clarify details of what: ASPIN intended.
Re User budget:inti for ADP services, there was general agreement
user bud ct:ing would cost far illore than it would achieve. Iiow(;ve.r, the
Board al; .r c.crl methods for esl:inl:t,t.ing, costs of proposed A'l:)P app]icnt:ions
and accounting for costs of on-going applications are needed together
with means of forcing user .management attention to these costs. lams
suggested, in addition, that a requirement for ExDir approval of ADP
applications whose estimated, costs exceed some agreed upon threshold
might be desirable. All four ADP service centers (CRS, NPIC, OCS,
and RID) now have costing systems. OCS is working to strengthen its
system to reflect not only manpower and CPU time but also amounts of
core and other resources used; also to improve the method of costing
remote terminal interactive services.
Re workload control, Wiltse said the basic need is a mechanism
for (a) judging the worth of a proposed application and (b) determining
whether the task should be handled. centrally or locally.
identify those ASPIN recommendations with which it appears the Board is
in agreement; then the Board can concentrate on trying to reach concensus
on at least some of the remaining recommendations and clarifying positions
where differences remain.
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