ODP REPORT FOR WEEK END 4 NOVEMBER 1983

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00142R000300270009-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 3, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM:
Director of Data Processing
SUBJECT: ODP Report for Week End 4 November 1983
1. Excess Equipment
A special microfiche storage and retrieval system,
referred to as "WALNUT", was developed for the Agency by IBM in
the early 1960s. This DDO-owned system has been declared excess
to the Agency's needs. Because of WALNUT's unique historical
value due to it's "first of a kind nature", the Smithsonian
Institution has requested receipt of the system. The transfer of
the system, properly sanitized, is being coordinated by the Office
of Training and Education (OTE) and the Information Management
Staff (IMS).
2. Message Handling Facility (MHF) Project
The MHF Project Team held an all-day management review of
the MHF Preliminary Design. This review of the high-level design
was attended by 21 people representing the following components:
the Office of Data Processing's (ODP) Engineering and Systems
Development Divisions; the Office of Communication's (OC) newly
created Management Liaison Staff; the DDO/IMS; and the DDI's
Analytic Support Group (ASG).
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4. Logistics Integrated Management System (LIMS)
The LIM System Definition Review (SDR) has been
successfully completed. The review was hosted by the LIMS
development contractor, Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, and attended by
representatives from ODP, the Office of Logistics (OL), the Office
of Finance (OF), and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
The objectives of the review were to ensure that certain technical
questions have been answered and to verify that the LIMS
Definition Phase has been completed. The SDR was successful and
the Government agreed that the review objectives had been
attained.
On 3 November, representatives from the user, support,
and training organizations from both the CIA and the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) will be briefed by the Mitre Corporation
on how the SAFE Training Plan will be developed. Mitre is the
contractor responsible for this task.
On 27 October, the Director of Data Processing and other
senior ODP personnel visited Wang Laboratories, Incorporated, in
Lowell, Massachusetts, to discuss Wang's corporate strategic plans
for multifunctional workstations, networking, and emerging office
technologies. Information was exchanged with high interest and
enthusiasm by both organizations, and follow-on meetings are
planned.
7. Briefing for the Executive Director (EXDIR)
On 1 November, the EXDIR was briefed by ODP on Wang word
processing equipment, the Automated Information Management System
(AIM) for electronic mail, the Host-Based Word Processor (HBWP)
and other related topics.
The electrical connectivity between the Wang systems and
the Agency's central computer system was also discussed.
ODP concurred, as per on the acquisition of a
Sharp model PC 1500 computer for use y the Office of Technical
Service (OTS).
Significant Events During Coming Weeks
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ODP
Distribution:
Original
(3 November 1983)
- Addressee (via AIM)
2 - D/ODP
2 - ODP/Registry
1 - ODP/EXO (via AIM)
1 - ODP/Package
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Excerpts from ODP Div/Staff Reports for Week Ending 4 November 1983
Management Staff
Finance. As of 2 November, there were 58 outstanding
advances with a dollar value of $31,596. No accounts were
STAT delinquent. (U/AIUO)
Grace Commission Report. ODP provided comments to the DDA
on the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, Task
Force Report on Automated Data Processing/Office Automation. The
report was a worthwhile effort from a Government-wide perspective.
Most of the recommendations, however, are not applicable in the CIA
STAT case. (U/AIUO)
1984 Unfunded Requirement for Quality Assurance Support for
ACTS. The DDA B&F Officer is trying to confirm the status of OF's
unfunded req
Although the
Comptroller,
meeting. Th
by D/ODP whe
1984 QA supp
uirement for quality assurance support for 1984.
unfunded requirement was previously reported to the
it must be reconfirmed at the next Comptroller's
e DDA B&F Officer believes an arrangement was agreed to
reby ODP would assume responsibility for providing the
ort DP staff personnel. A response is due by
STAT 7 November.
(U/AIUO-ODP ONLY)
Administrati
ve Staff
Perso
nnel:
STAT
QAD, resigned on 28 October.
STAT
EOD'd for OD on 31 October.
STAT
DDA, reassigned to CAMS on 31 October.
STAT
OCR, reassigned to ED on 31 October.
STAT
(U)
Applications
The Gantt chart for the SAFE Project has been received and
indicates a delivery of operational SAFE software in January 1985.
This will impact DESIST significantly and move IOC to approximately
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ADM-AISTRATIVE-INTERNAL USE ONL.
April/May 1985 due to the need for SAFE software transition/
STAT integration on the DESIST machine. (U)
We continue to await additional SAFE software design
details. We have received one CPCI design specification (Data
Management). Progress against the existing schedule has ceased
with two exceptions. Work continues on the DESIST Training Plan
and on the Data Base Specifications. A new schedule will be
developed once all SAFE B-5 specifications become available to
STAT DESIST. F _](U)
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As of 31 October, 94% of the software is completed through
unit-level test, and the remaining is scheduled to be completed by
the end of November. Software integration testing continues with
48% of the test cases executed, 43% scheduled through the end of
November and 9% scheduled to be completed during December.
(U)
On 26 October, the CAMS2 (P/S) Development System, located
at the TRW W-2 building, successfully transmitted several messages
to the CAMS2 production system at Headquarters, via the DATEX
pseudo system. This milestone establishes the CAMS2 operational
communication software baseline. Further Message Processing
testing utilizing the DATEX communication network software is
scheduled to being on 1 November and is expected to be completed by
11 November. (U)
01/Al On 21-23 October, (CAMS Division, and
CAMS2 (P/S) Development Contractor, observed testing of the IDM
block multiplexor with an IBM 3033 in Sunneyvale, California. With
a minor modification to the microcode, the 3033 IDM s stem ran with
STAT a loop test for six hours with no problems. hand
carried a tape of the microcode and a copy of IDM software
Release 25 to the CAMS2 (P/S) Development Facility, where it was
tested for 12 hours with no problems. Additional tests are
forthcoming before developers will be allowed to use the block
STAT multiplexor interface. (U)
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24 October to take part in the ACIS Project.
has been appointed the new Project Leader for PRIM.
(U)
an OL Careerist, has moved from the LIMS
Project Team ac to the Plans and Pro rams Staff, OL. His
new telephone extension is (U)
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STAT
STAT
Processing
The ODP Computer Systems Quarterly Report for the Fourth
Quarter FY-83 has now been published and is in the process of being
distributed. The Statistical Su n1ement in also lable and may
be obtained by contacting SEB on (U)
The online application has been operational 24 hours a
day through ou the past week due to the crisis situations in
Lebanon and Grenada. Scheduled hardware and software changes were
STAT postponed until the weekend of 5-6 November. (U)
The online applications SECMAIL and SECTEXT were kept
available until 2100 each night this week per a request from the
STAT DDI. (U)
Representatives from IBM Research (Yorktown) and VM
Development (Kingston & Endicott) visited the Agency to discuss our
progress with VM Single System Image (SSI) software per our Joint
Development Effort with Yorktown. These were our first discussions
on SSI with the VM Development organization, which is the internal
organization within IBM that will be a part of the supported
Operating System, and they are obviously considering the SSI
software for inclusion. IBM Research made a presentation on an
enhanced VM Directory Maintenance Package for use in an SSI
environment, but unfortun the basic package lacks capabilities
STAT needed by the Agency. (U)
A new version of AIM was installed on VM1/VM2. Included in
this updated version is a calendar function needed by CAMS2, an
enhanced ERASE command that lets users retrieve a document
accidently erased, several new options for existing commands,
recoverability for documents being edited when AIM goes down, and
several problem fixes. AIM Administrators have the complete list
of enhancements, and users can refer to the appro riate AIM HELP
STAT file for details on how to use the new features. (U)
The trouble desk handled a total of 1,010 phone calls for
the week of 24-29 October; 780 incoming calls, 230 outgoing calls,
and 128 Wana calls of the incoming calls, 200 reported terminal
STAT problems. (U)
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has reported for duty in the WPB as the
Secretary for that branch. (U)
J attended a two-day seminar sponsored by
(U)
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