MINUTES OF 26 AUGUST 1983 WORKING GROUP MEETING

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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M MORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
1 September 1983
Information Services Planning Working Group
Chairman
Minutes of 26 August 1983 Working Group Meeting
1. The Information Services Planning Working Group met on Friday, 26
August 1983. Participants included
Monitoring the meeting was Bill Donnelly D OC . Eo
of the Executive Information System Working Group, sat in as in
observer.
2. convened the in askin for corrections to the
noted that the ISB would
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like to see a draft,char er at its 2 September meeting rather than on 28
September as -indicated i 1he minutes.
3. continued his presentation on the flow of information in
the DDO. briefly described his terminal acquisition model in
connect' ith he DO- goal-'of installing 2400 terminals by the end of:the
decade. noted work that NSA is doing with optical disks may address
the DO problem of how to store paper, fiche, and digital data in compatible
form. In conclusion, Les indicated that IMS is the DO information systems,
planning agent. . We might--look at how the DO plans information services to
get a clue about hew the Agency as a whole should plan its information
services. Les handed out.a list o T)O a -on management goals for the
next 10 years (see attachient A).
4.' A discussion of'the group's charter followed. The concensus was
that the-Agency did need to plan its information services at the DCI level,
but the, degree of centralization was an open but critically important
question. Several members viewed coordination as the key issue, rather than
planning,' and 'several others questioned the viability of the working group
as a means of addressing-these issues. Our charter should state as its main
objective what the planning system should be, including who will be the
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major actors. Bill Donnelly noted a major handicap in the effort to plan-
and implement information services was the lack of polic decisions to do so
on the part of the directorates. (See attachment B fo
S. In view of the short deadline (2 September) for getting out the
draft charter, Bob asked for comments on the existing draft-by Tuesday
morning. He will use AIM do distribute a revised draft to members with AIM
written comments on the charter.)
access, with additional comments to be back by 1400 hours Thursday. The
final draft would then go to the ISB on Friday (2 September).
6. The next meeting of the working group is scheduled for Friday, 16--
September 1983, at 1400 hours in Room 4E0S Headquarters. The agenda for
that meeting, which is scheduled for 90 minutes, is as follows:
o Approve the minutes of the previous meeting.
Take care of any old business.
Establish a time-table and division of responsibilities for
meeting the groups' objectives.
o Define planning.
Describe present Agency planning.
Identify planning shortcomings.
Attachments:
As stated
O/Comet/IHG~
(1 Sep 83)
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