COMMENTS ON DRAFT PAPER BY DCI'S SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ADVISORY PANEL

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• Publication Date: April 3, 1980
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is a short summary of the draft
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concepts paper that we have been
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, National Foreign Assessment Center
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FROM . Clarus W. Rice
Director of Central Reference
SUBJECT . Comments on Draft Paper by DCI's Scientific and
Technical Advisory Panel
1. The following is a summary of a draft paper that has been
prepared by of the DCI's
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel. The draft paper has been
forwarded to OCR and ODP for comments by COB 4 April. We will
forward a copy of our reply for your information when it is completed.
The thrust of this concepts paper does not differ much from the main
points ex ressed in the meeting that we had on Wednesday with Messrs.
ikkiki In effect, their concepts paper says:
a. There is a need to expand the Community role in SAFE.
-- They are concerned that there is no Community ADP/
communications manager; that SAFE is not being
integrated into any overall Community plan; that
there is a need for stronger Community management
in SAFE; and finally, that SAFE needs to consider
Community requirements as well as NFAC requirements.
b. The technological qualifications of SAFE management needs
to be improved.
-- The authors feel that the major problem in SAFE is
technological. To provide the technical advice and
assistance, they recommend that the DCI create an
expert panel composed of Agency, Community and
contractual members referred to in the paper as an
Advisory Counsel on Technology (ACT). ACT would be
responsible for monitoring and reviewing on a
continuous basis SAFE development, and SAFE
requirements for the DCI and the SAFE managers.
c. Because of the size of the ultimate SAFE system (characterized
as a large and intimidating R&D effort), the authors feel that
a pilot SAFE project much larger than the Interim SAFE Systern
needs to be implemented and experimented with for several years
before we embark on the development of a large SAFE system.
-- The authors accept the validity of the Interim System
as an approach to collecting data but the pilot SAFE
would provide more and better data; it would be tested
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by the entire Community, not just NFAC; it would be
linked to the rest of the Community through COINS; and
consolidated SAFE Community requirements could then
result from this "pilot Community SAFE system."
d. The authors also recommend that the Agency invest additional
effort in determining how ,dFAC analysts do analyis. This
effort would rabably be undertaken in their view by_ORD
with contractual help .
2. To accomplish the above,
recommend that we delay review and acceptance
scheduled for late 1980 and early 1981, and instead expand the Interim
System, which they feel can be accomplished within a year.
3. In the last paragraph of their concepts paper, the authors
recommend that ACT "be prepared to exercise both review and monitoring
functions with some intensity. They characterize ACT's immediate duty
as one of advising the DCI and SAFE management about the "design review
and possible acceptance this summer." They admit that this proposal is
contrary to their opinion that SAFE ought to be delayed or modified.
Clarus W. Rice
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