IDEAS FROM CONVERSATION WITH DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD ON NATIONAL/TACTICAL INTERFACE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: December 2, 1977
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MEMORANDUM FOR TIlE RECORD
SUBJECT: Ideas from Conversation with Defense Science
Board on National/Tactical Interface
In the future, we're going to have to do our analysis of col-
lection systems such that the NITC analyzes all systems, including
IRA, that overlap; and similarly the Defense eo le will have to
do the same. In short, I should task to include not 25X1
only competing national systems in a given analysis, but IRA systems
that also compete; Harold Brown should do the same for his people,
making them move into the national systems. These analyses would
enable us to go to the Congress with justification for maintaining
the competing and overlapping systems, or they would reveal where
we might well eliminate something. In due course, one would expect
that the NITC and military service analysts would get together and
do a joint analysis but that might take time to evolve.
Apparently, there is an exercise of this very
nature going on right now with respect to radars,
only it was mandated by the Congress to be done
this way.
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STANSFIELD'TURNER
Director
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