DCI RESPONSE TO SAFE/ADISS MEMORANDUM FROM D/DIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A000300060007-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 12, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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ODP 1826-77
12 September 1977
MEMORANDUM'FOR: Acting Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence
Acting Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM Clifford D. May, Jr.
Director of Data Processing
SUBJECT . DCI Response to SAFE/ADISS Memorandum
from D/DIA
Attached you will find a copy of the 30 August memo-
randum from the Director,.DIA, regarding SAFE/ADISS, and
the first draft of a proposed DCI response. The ICS has
action responsibility to prepare this response and asked
that advance copies of the draft be provided for your
information. It is my understanding that this corres- STATINTL
pondence will be circulated for formal concurrence before
being forwarded for DCI signature.
Att: a/s
cc: D/OCR
C/SPS/ODP
EO/ICS
DIA review(s) completed.
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MEMORANDUM' FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Management of SAFE/ADISS Projects
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2. I request your concurrence in this approach. In the meantime, I
have directed my staff to work with the CIA staff to do the necessary
a. Management of the ADISS Project be consolidated under
the existing SAFE Project Office.
b. The ADISS Project Manager serve as deputy to the SAFE
Project Manager.
c.' On-going and scheduled system definition studies be
used to develop an overall system specification converging
to a common system design with a single contractor.
d. Details of project administration, to include funding
arrangements, be worked out in a memorandum of understanding.
e. Project consolidation be effective 1 September 1977 and
that the memorandum of understanding be approved within
90 days.
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1. I have reviewed thel and the SAFE/ADISS Working Group
Studies and believe the following proposals embody the best of these
efforts with added emphasis toward achieving early conunonal i ty.
preliminary work on this proposal.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
SUBJECT SAFE/ADISS Project Management
REFERENCE Memo from D/DIA to DCI dated 30 August 1977,
subject: Management of SAFE/ADISS Projects
1. I concur with your proposal for the immediate
consolidation of these projects as outlined in Reference.
I have directed my staff to modify the SAFE Project organi-
zation along the lines of the SAFE/ADISS Working Group paper
to accommodate this action and to initiate the drafting of
an administrative memorandum of understanding for our
signatures.
2. A Project Management Plan will be drafted within
90 days by the consolidated project office outlining:
a. How the project will be managed.
b. How the project will be jointly funded.
c. How the project will be staffed.
d. How user requirements will be accommodated.
e. Project oversight arrangements.
f. Reporting responsibilities to the participating
organizations.
3. We should, through this effort, be able to realize
the cost savings of common development while remaining re-
sponsive to the needs of each using Agency. We plan that
full project visibility will ensure that this happens.
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SUBJECT: (Optional)
DCI Response to SAFE/ADISS Memorandum from D/DIA
D/ODP/DDA
2-D-O HQS.
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and DATE
building)
FORWARDED
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
DATE
12 Sept. 1977
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
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