TECHNICAL MANPOWER STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84M00127R000100020015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 24, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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Director
Intelligence Community Staff
Washington, D.C. 20505
DCI/ICS 82-4203
24 February 19.82
MEMORANDUM FOR: Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer, USAF
Director, National Security Agency
Technical Manpower Study
1. The Science and Technology Advisory Panel (STAP) has been asked by
the DCI to investigate the subject of the Intelligence Community's need for
technical manpower. This subject is part of the broader manpower issue which
was identified in the 1985 Intelligence Capabilities Study as requiring
special attention for purposes of long-range planning. Among the concerns
addressed in the individual agency papers submitted during the course of that
study, the requirement for technically qualified civili n manpower stood out
in terms of its universality and potential severity. 25X1
2. The Intelligence Community has a need for engineers, physical
scientists, and computer scientists to fill positions as analysts,
researchers, and contract monitors. The Community's ability to recruit and
retain qualified and talented manpower is likely to diminish during the decade
as the competition from the private sector for a dwindling supply of
technically qualified personnel becomes more intense. The situation is
serious, and will grow more so unless steps are taken now to address the
underlying causes. With your help, the STAP proposes to review the
Community's technical manpower hiring and retention practices. It will make
specific recommendations which could be translated either into specific
ram initiatives, or into modifications of personnel policy procedures '25X1
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3. To accomplish this, I am asking for your assistance in responding to
the attached questionnaire for the National Security Agency. Where possible,
the Panel has asked for data on civilian personnel only; where they have asked
for categorical breakdowns, they are looking for consistency more than
precision. A report by the National Science Foundation on the supply of
qualified science and engineering manpower has been included to help place the
Community's concerns in context. In orde facilitate the study se
submit the name of your action officer to of251 l
Intelligence Community Staff who is providing sta support to the project; he
will be available to answer any questions you may have about the
undertaking. A response by mid-April 1982, would be of great benefit. 25 1
4. I am hopeful that this effort on the pqrt of the STAP will esult in
tangible benefits to NSA and to the Community. 25X1
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