OCS SUPPORT TO THE SUPPORT INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM (SIPS)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R001200200003-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 9, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: OCS Support to the Support Information Processing System (SIPS)
targets in relation to the numbers and kinds of people we would expect the Office
of Computer Services to furnish in support of this project. Briggs said that he
was interested in getting better acquainted with some of the details of our program
and our projected target dates for levying specific requirements upon them for
support.
2. presented charts showing tasks and skills that we will be
requiring and the numbers of people we estimate will be needed to perform each
task month by month through fiscal year 1970. Briggs did not
question our task identification nor the numbers of people we estimated will be
required for each. The increases in their ceiling which have been authorized
and the percentage of those they plan to allocate to this project appear to be just
about in balance with our estimates of the numbers needed. The problem will be
whether they can get enough of the right kinds of people into the pipeline and on
board in the right time frame. They have an additional problem of trying to iden-
ify the kinds of people they need to recruit, and this is complicated by the need to
maintain or convert the 501 programs as well as continue to respond to current work
orders. raised the question of whether we expected to recommend
the hiring or retention of contract personnel to satisfy the requirement for OCS
participation in the development of new systems. He was advised that we would
not and that we considered it OCS's responsibility to determine how the required
computer specialist talent would be obtained. If the requirement can be satisfied
by "in-house" talent, so much the better. We agreed that at some point in time it
will be necessary to call a halt to work orders against existing systems but we also
agreed that it is premature to consider that action now. aid that
the Director has observed and expressed some concern over the percentage of OCS
effort which is devoted to the support of the DD/S. I said I would hope that some
where along the line someone would make the point to Mr. Helms that vh ile we
might represent 50% of the work load in the Office of Computer Services, we cer-
tainly do not represent anywhere near 50% of the computer work load in the Agency.
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3. We discussed the need to develop plans for the implementation of the
Support Information Processing Systems sequentially and, to the extent possible,
in an order of priority that will permit maximum relief for the 501 as early as
possible. I made the point, however, that I was not very optimistic about the
possibility of getting any significant relief for the 501 very rapidly because I do
not expect to find very many applications where there might be a one for one
correspondence between systems as they exist in the RCA com uter and systems
that we will be defining in our new applications. iso questioned the
order of our present apparent priorities in pushing forward on the materiel system
which seems likely to offer the least relief for the 501. I explained at some length
the background of this evolution of events including reference to several critical
audit reports, early Logistics efforts to redesign the present systems, the decision
twice made to proceed with integrated materiel systems, the relative support and
man-power contributed by the Directors of Logistics and Finance to the materiel
effort, the impact of requirements for information about certain kinds of contracts
as well as inventory mana ement during the past six to eight months, and, most
25X1 recently, thel I said that while we are well aware of the problems
with the 501 systems and the man-power available in the Office of Computer Ser-
vices to maintain them, we have no intention and see no useful purpose to be served
in allowing that to become the only factor in determining priorities for the develop-
ment and implementation of new systems. Certainly the 501 situation will be a
significant factor but it will be only one of the criteria we will apply in measuring
our relative priorities. I reminded them that we had held preliminary discussions
25X1 wit to begin identifying priorities for granting relief to the 501 but
we had found in reviewing a list of those applications that some of the things which
appeared obvious candidates for immediate conversion from my point of view
25X1 would present significant problems ecause of their activity. We had
concluded as a result of these conversations that probably the best way to proceed
25X1 would be to have identify those things which he felt would be logical candi-
dates for direct conversion to the 360 for our review and consideration in terms
of their relationship to sequential implementation of new systems. We felt that this
could be a productive effort over the next few weeks while we are sharpening our
thinking about new system concepts which will put us into a better position to judge
the relative correspondence between new systems and old.
Chief, Support Services Staff
C/SSS/DDS:RHW:gf(8 Dec 66)
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