CAVERSHAM MODERNIZATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 13, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

.UP 22 Sep 82
(Name, ofNce symbol. room number,
building, Agency/Post)
Acting Chief, Cpera.tions Group
As I promised in a recent message, here
are some papers dealing with the BBC's
modernization scheme. The long paper will be
of most interest to the MIDAS people, I suspect.
The Monitoring Service's computerization scheme
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From: Edit , News and Publications, Monito- g Service
-loom No. & Tel.
Building: 126, Caversham Ext.: 241
Subject: CAVERSHAM MODERNISATION
To: Bureau Chief, FBIS London
date: 13th July 1982
Copy: H.M.S.;
S.A.i;
E.i.C.
As you know, a committee has been working on a programme for the
modernisation and development of the Monitoring Service over the next
five to ten years. We aim to submit a project plan, together with
an order of cost, to the relevant ministries later this year.
Some of the factors taken into account by the committee - e.g.
the advent of satellite monitoring and computerisation - are common
to the Monitoring Service and FBIS. On our side we have already
reached the view that new tasks and technologies will require more
accommodation and fresh amenities. It thus seems possible, even
probable, that your own operations here will within five years pre-
sent you with a need for more space and amenities. We feel that
so far as possible we must identify such needs now. Our credibility
with the government if we had later to add to an integrated plan, and
with local planning authorities if we had to go back for further per-
mits could otherwise be severely prejudiced.
It would therefore be a great service to us if you could give us
at least a guesstimate of your future amenity needs here at Caversham
in, say, the next 5-8 years. The factors we have in mind are space
for additional staff and equipment, electrical power, catering, air-
conditioning, land-lines, even dish aerials. Once we know your
thoughts, any financial implications could be discussed subsequently.
AB (R.E.H. Challis
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