INFORMATION HANDLING STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00896R000100060001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 14, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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.ADMINISTRATIVE I-TS12 MY
OTR 78-8825
14 DEC 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant for Information, DDA
FROM: wry I.. Fitzwa . Level II complete - 11/21/00
Director 'tl' 1ing - betty
SUBJECT: Infcrnat ion handling Study
REFERENCE: Your memorandum dated 28 November 1978,
Same Subject
1.' Listed below are Office of Training __ OTR) comments
and perspectives on the Agency's goal concerned with information
handling.
2. Critical to the development of a better structure
for ordination and carrying out the Agency's information
han,ng activities is an improved understanding among the
personnel of the Agency about the on-going activities in
this area and the rapidly evolving technology developments
which might improve the performance of these activities.
with respect to ma or problems we feel that each Agency
component must define its own specific information needs.
For example, OTR needs to understand what it is expected to
produce and the time frames within which production must
take place. OTR operations have to be responsive to the
. -i,s of its consumers; thus, most critical to OTR are
ent management goals which can be translated into
t ing.needs.
3. The OTk Information Science Center in its various
courses can help develop better tools for data handling. An
understanding of the information handling problems and the
issues involved might be facilitated in some instances by
the development of system dynamic models of these systems--
or perhaps other types of models, such as queuing. To do
this successfully generally requires a partnership between
the people that have the problem and the methods people, and
some degree of familiarity on the part of each of the
participants with the other's tasks.
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ADVINISA571E w, USE OP?LY
SUBJECT: Information Handling Study
4. The Office of Training stands ready to assist in
this study to the extent of its resources and capabilities,
Distribution:
Orig & I - Addressee
1 - OTR Registry
1 - DTR Chrono
STATINTL I - OTR/EA
1 - TAP
Wit' Harry E. Fitzwater
OTR/EA/-:dmg (14 December 1978)
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