ODP REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 28 OCTOBER 1977

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83T00573R000600130011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 28, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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r1E 4ORANDU M FOR: Acting Deputy A rector for Administration
FROM . Clifford D. nay, Jr.
Director of rata Processing
SUBJECT ODP Report for leek 7 nding 28 October 1977 (i1)
Offers l Received on Replacement of IM 360/195 Computer (U)
(AIUO) Best and final offers on the replacement for the
IB'.i 360/195 computer were received from three vendors. %a iagc
merit Staff and engineering =ivision are performing the pre-
liminary cost evaluation. Final cost evaluation will be
done by tine Office of Logistics. 25X1A
merit; for our z ajor projects, 25X1A
FAG Prof ect `-view -'.'eeting rescheduled (U)
(AItlo) The initial 'EAG meeting on ABP Project Review has
been postponed until 6 December. This postponement was re-
quired because one Office submission had not been received
and the capacities for ODP major corn.-,uter services have not
been cleterminad. This meeting will be an overview of the
total requirements surfaced by the projected FY-78 require-
c I~t'' CIA Buildings Studer (AIUO)
(AIUO) as part of the CI.A/riZA Building Study
for the DCI, is scheduled to meet with DIAL regarding their
?3P structure to evaluate the consequence of combining
CIA/ )IA ADP in the Headquarters compound.
Stud Completed on OER Requirements (U)
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rig language) is the correct language for GLR to use
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analysts are undertrained in the use of PL, and improved
machine resources for APL are needed. T ,e recommendations
were for training O^T? analysts and providing incr~ aase d a )DP
resources to produce= acceptable APL service to OER.
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OS /SDP Working Group (U)
(AIUO) The Working Group met on 26 October. items discussed
were destruction of surplus disk platters, and forming of
an auditing and access control sub-group to define security
requirements policy and audit procedures. Also discussed
were the risk analysis study that OS is undertaking on the 25X1A
Ruffing and Special Centers, guidelines for computer output
distribution point security, and on-going efforts in implement,-
ing software pac'.agd?,s to enhance system security.
Requests for 13riefinc Four of Computer Center (U)
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(C) ODP has been requested by DDO to arrange a briefing and
tour of the Rtuffinq Computer Center on 1 ~Yoyez er for `%ior
Su rt to office of Personnel (U)
(U) PERSIGN- "DINT - Integrated Personnel Information system.
We are ready to produce the 5x8 cards for the pay raise riotics
to employees next week. The salary table for the wage schedule
pay raise was rec.ived 25 October 1977. Coding of the salary
tables is underway. 25X1A
Heavy Budget Processing Fxpected (U)
(AIUO) Inputting of data for the FY-79 Congressional Ludget 25X1A
is scheduled during the period 7 4ovember through 19 December.
W expect this high volume of activity on the GIM Production
System to cause some degradation of system response.
.A Minicomputer Bardwa Problems (U)
(AIUO) The :CSC PDP minicomputers that collect cable ssage
traffic for Machine Assisted Dissemination (MAD) have experi-
enced several tape drive problems in the last week. T?1145
required massages to be retransmitted from office of o imu..ica-
tions. The cause of the problems is :eing investigated and
remedial action started at once. The maintenance vendor has
been told to improve his service because it has degraded over
the last two months following a change in vendor personnel.
Replacing some of the equipment is being studied to see if it
would result in improved reliability.
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(U) The Agency's SAFE Design Competition Phase Co tractors'
orientation !riefings were completed on 28 October. ',::hey
concluded with separate sessions with each of the contractors
The briefings were praised by the contractors`
project leaders for answering many questions and providing
a better understanding of the SAFE environment.
(U) CIA and 3IA SAFE Project 'lanagement Officers presented
a review of the consolidated SAFE Project to 0MB examiners
and IC Staff representatives on 28 October 1977.
ADSTAR (U)
(U) we are preparing planning data for the Office of :gistics
which will make it possible to calculate power, cooling, and
space requirements for the Stand-Alone Input Processing,
Retrieval, and Conversion Sub Systems of ADSTAR. 25X1A
RAPID (U)
(AIUO) At the 21 October 1977 Steering Committee eeting,
the Project office recommended termination of the PJ PID con-
tract. -fir. D Arks requested office of General Counsel and
office of Logistics to provide him with a procedure by which
this may be accomplished. Both nd ODP will be providS TSPEC
input and other support. MW 25X1A
Training (U)
(U) Basic Program Design, a two day course, was complet
by 7 students. interactive Systems Concepts, a one day
course, was completed by 19 students.
Distribution:
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