SAFE MONTHLY STATUS REPORT FOR JANUARY 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000500090025-3
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 17, 1981
• Content Type: MF

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SAF-Elll-81
17 February 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Distribution
Director, Console ated SAFE Project Office/ODP
SAFE Monthly Status Report for January 1981
1. Attached is the SAFE Project Monthly Status Report
for January 1981.
2.. The SAFE Steering Committee meeting is scheduled
for 1400 hours on 25 February 1981 at the CIA Headquarters
Building in Room 7E32.
Attachment as stated
Distribution:
1 - DDA/CIA
1 - ADDA/CIA
1 - DDS&T/CIA
1 - DD/NFAC/CIA
1 - RS/DIA
1 - RSO/DIA
1 - RSE/DIA
1 - RSM/DIA
1 - RCC/DIA
1 - VP/DIA
1 - D/DCI/RM
1 - Compt/CIA
1 - D/ODP/DDA/CIA
1 - D/OCR/NFAC/CIA
1 - D/IRO/RMS
1 - C/P&PS/NFAC/CIA
1 - C/SAS/OCR/NFAC/CIA
1 - C/DSG/OCR/NFAC/CIA
1 - C/ISG/OCR/NFAC/CIA
1 - C/ADP&EB/PD/OL/DDA/CIA
1 - ODP Registry
17 - CSPO/ODP/CIA
CSPO/ODP If mg (17 Feb 1981)
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Consolidated SAFE Project
Monthly Status Report
January 1981
A. System Acquisition Phase Prime Contract - The
highlight of TRWs activity for the month of January was the
Tnitia.l Design Peview (IDR) for Block 1-Increment 1 which was
held at TRW's SAFE Development Facility (DF) on 19-22 January 1981.
The purpose of the IDR was to allow the Government to review
TRW's progress in the Block 1 design of the SAFE System at a
detailed design level. CSPO participants considered the review
a useful and productive effort. A separate report is being
written which will outline the topics of discussion along with
issues and problems raised at the review and the action items
assigned to resolve them. Other areas of accomplishment included:
- System Engineering -- The Systems Engineering effort
centered on the revision and updating of various system design
specifications including: Revision B of the System Requirements
Specification, the revision of the System Design Specification,
Revision B of the SAFE C & D to External Systems Interface
Specification, and the Intersubsystem Message Interface Control
Document. New input/output models were incorporated into the
System Performance Analysis simulator and a draft of the
Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) Report was
completed.
- Subsystems Development -- In addition to preparing for
and conducting the Block 1 Increment 1 IDR, design of the Block
1 set of system services continued and Block 1 Increment 2
activities were initiated. In the Block 3 area, the IDF
performance threads were updated, the Database Management
System design continued, the AIF/DIOBS Database Design Report
was revised, the top-level SAFE D Operational Concept Definition
was completed and work continued on the Conversion Requirements
Specification.
- Communications -- The installation of the coaxial cable
for the wideband system in the CIA Headquarters Building
continues to proceed on schedule. Other communications
activities included the preparation of a draft wideband bus
communications integration and test plan, completion of draft
Bus Interface Unit (BIU) and Processor Interface Unit (PIU)
specifications, completion of BIU hardware design and the
initiation of the preliminary design of the PIU. The design
of the production modem is nearing completion.
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- ADPE/Materiel -- TRW began acceptance testing of
the first Burroughs B6930 midi-level computer delivered
to the DF in December. Burroughs personnel continued the
installation and checkout of the second B6930 and the B7821
global computer. Negotiations on the Burroughs ADPE sub-
contract were completed and the contract was signed on
8 January and forwarded to the CSPO for approval.
B. Government Furnished Terminals -- The Government
sent 41 Delta Data SAFE terminals to the TRW Development
Facility in January to supplement the 7 terminals previously
shipped. One more terminal has yet to be delivered. Most
of these terminals have been checked out and are now operational.
One terminal has been wired to the'B6930. These terminals
will eventually be hooked up to the Burroughs equipment via
a wideband cable bus-now being installed at the DF.
C. SAFE User Language Development - As part of the
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continuing review of the work leading to the publication of
the SAFE User Language (SUL) Specification, which will be
delivered in February 1981, the Government developed a com-
prehensive scenario that will simulate significant aspects
of the SUL design. This simulation is expected to provide
valuable user feedback on alternate design options in TRW's
approach to user interfaces.
D. Conversion - The Government reviewed the first draft
of TRW's Conversion Requirements Specification and provided
comment to TRW. This document identifies databases to be
converted as well as applications programs to be written based
on existing or predicted output specifications. For DIA the
documentation will provide a concept of operations which
details the SAFE system support for specific functional
activities.
E. Message Analysis - Work on the update of the OSI
Data Format Study which identifies electrical messages input
to SAFE by source and type and further decomposes the messages
into various zones of information. Work also progressed on
providing the rules by which SAFE documents will be uniquely
identified in the system. This has been a joint CIA/DIA
activity and to this point has been characterized by significant
commonality.
System Acquisition Phase Prime Contract - The emphasis
during February will be on the continuing system and subsystem
design effort. A major portion of this effort will be on the
preparation of the design documentation to be reviewed at the
Preliminary Detailed Design Review (PDR) scheduled for mid-
March. The PDR has been combined with the Block 1 Increment 1
Detailed Design Review (DDR) and the Block 1 Increment 2 Initial
Design Review (IDR). A major part of the Block 3 effort,
establishing conversion requirements, will continue. The Con-
version Requirements Review has been rescheduled to 2 March 1981
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The Development Facility will become an operational
computer center with the completion of acceptance tests on
the first Burroughs B6930. The installation of the coaxial
cable in the CIA Headquarters Building will continue.
Engineering design and test of hardware interfaces to
cryptographic equipment and wideband communications will
also continue.
B. SAFE Steering Committee Meeting - The quarterly
meeting of the SAFE Steering Committee will be held on
25 February 1981 at the CIA Headquarters Building.
Wideband Cable Components - Preliminary engineering
testing of the cable installation at the CIA Headquarters
has turned up some faulty tap hardware. The problem is being
investigated by the TRW installation team.
SAFE Steering Committee Meeting
25
February 1981
Conversion Requirements Review
2
March 1981
Preliminary Detail Design Review (PDR)
16
March 1981
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Block 1 Increment 1 Deta
Review
16 March 1981
Block 1 Increment 2 Initial Design
Review
16 March 1981
Block 3 In Progress Review
1 June 1981
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