COMMUNITY INFORMATION HANDLING R&D FACILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00096A000500060020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 10, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Information Handling Committee
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: Community Information Handling R&D Facility
1. You indicated that you were interested in getting from the
IHC members some thoughts on what to do about the Community R&D
problem. What follows are my own personal views, not necessarily
those of the Agency or any of its components.
2. I start with the assumption that each agency will, no matter
what, continue to conduct its own, or contract for, advanced develop-
mental research leading toward a particular solution to well-defined
problems bearing on the mission of that agency. This "applied"
R&D may very well be useful, however, to other members of the
Community who may have similar problems or who, indeed, may be
engaged in similar or duplicative lines of developmental work.
3. This leads me to where I think the Community should start
in the information processing field on R&D: to some kind of clearing
house facility. This clearing house might report to the R&D sub-
committee and function as an integral part of the Community Information
Sciences Center. Each agency would register with the clearing house
its information handling R&D projects and contracts. The clearing
house then would maintain records of all such projects and assist
agencies in avoiding duplicative efforts. Thus, it would serve as a
broker by bringing together people with problems and people with
solutions. The clearing house would keep in close touch with ARPA,
with other Government-sponsored research programs, and with work
going on in the trade outside the Government.
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4. T can foresee how such a function staffed, say, with an
experienced professional from each of the major Community agencies
could pay real dividends and prove more than cost effective. It
would be, if it prospered, a fine nucleus from which to expand if
it became clear that a more elaborate R&D facility were needed
and could be afforded by the Community.
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CIA Member
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