PRELIMINARY ISSUES INVENTORY FOR THE DDA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 1, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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DD/A 80-0427/7
1 July 1980
MEMORANDUM FOR: Vince Puritano
Chairman, Long-Range Planning Team
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Chief, Management Staff, DDA
SUBJECT: Preliminary Issues Inventory for the DDA
1. Attached as requested is a preliminary issues inventory for
the Directorate of Administration for your use in developing a Five Year
CIA Plan and Guidance document. The Directorate has tentatively identi-
fied ten management issues (strategic objectives) on which we will focus
our efforts during the planning period you are proposing. These
strategic objectives, we think, meet our definitional standard -- i.e.,
those initiatives that we must begin to plan for and implement in order
that our components will have the requisite skills, usable technology,
capacity, and organizational structures in place and available to respond
to known or projected customer requirements. We have provided a "solution"
statement to each strategic objective because in nearly every instance we
are injecting ourselves into an ongoing planning activity. We have also
provided a series of planning assumptions that, in our collective judgment,
are germane to each strategic objective.
2. These preliminary strategic objectives all build upon and will
significantly add to this Directorate's ability to provide timely, responsive,
and cost-effective support to significant known or projected customer
requirements that cannot presently be provided. During the period you
intend to cover with the Five Year Plan and Guidance document, this
Directorate will address planning on two levels:
-- long-range or strategic objectives; and
-- operational. objectives.
Our operational planning activities during this period will be designed to
ensure that ongoing customer requirements for our services and products
are also satisfied in a timely, responsive, and cost-effective manner.
Through our Directorate planning process we will attempt to balance and
reallocate as necessary the resources available to us to provide continuing
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communications, data processing, logistical, training, security, financial,
and medical services support to the CIA.
3. These strategic objectives have not been discussed with either
Don Wortman or Bill Hart, nor have either had the opportunity to discuss
them with their senior line managers. For this reason we identify them
as tentative in nature and fully subject to change. We will confirm
them as soon as possible.
Attachments:
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Improve the availability of Agency secure voice
communications to metropolitan, domestic field, and foreign
locations.
The procurement of new digital communications switches
will allow the Office of Communications to meet the
metropolitan area commitment. The deployment will
enhance the secure voice profile in the domestic network.
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for existing and expanding) secure voice service abroad.
1983 - 1986
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- The availability of secure voice communications
will continue to be of critical importance to the
security of the metropolitan, domestic and foreign
activities of the Agency and those it supports.
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Sponsor(s):
Office of Communications
Customer(s):
Agency-wide
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Expand our present transmission system (i.e., the
combination of SKYLINK, HF radio, lease line, dial-up
supports, microwave, coaxial cable, and wire line grid
systems) to suppport the modernization of the digital
portion of our network.
Complete the SKYLINK program, enhanced HF radio and
dial-up capability and expand microwave and coax cable
trunking.
1980-1987
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- The transmission system will be required to support
the digital subsystems with a sufficient capability
to accommodate known and projected service
requirements.
-- Existing high frequency radio capability will be
insufficient to handle projected narrative and
high-speed data requirements.
- Enhanced high frequency radio service capabilities
will be required where SKYLINK or other resources
are not available.
-- Microwave utilization in the metropolitan area will
continue to increase.
-- Existing technologies will be used to supply the
solutions to these requirements.
Sponsor:
Office of Communications
Customer(s):
Agency-wide
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Replace existing communications equipment and switching
systems with a telecommunications network which supports the
information handling requirements of the Agency, the
Intelligence Community, and others.
Ensure the implementation of Project MERCURY.
1980 - 1986
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- Our current Teletype network is technically
obsolete and is incapable of supporting the
projected and perceived high-speed information
handling requirements of network customers.
-- The digital portion of our network will require
modernization and upgrading in order to provide
these new information handling services.
-- Connectivity and survivability will be of
increasing importance as worldwide political
stability decreases.
-- Existing technology can be used to provide the
required solution.
Sponsor(s):
Office of Communications
Customer(s):
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Community (e.g., NSA,
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Replace the existing message processing system in OC
and ODP with an integrated system that will provide a
comprehensive, automated two-way message handling and
dissemination facility.
The solution will include replacement of the current
Cable Dissemination System with available hardware and
software to ensure rapid and accurate transmission and
dissemination of record traffic.
1980 - 1987
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
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Sponsor(s):
Office of Communications
Office of Data Processing
Cust osier (s) :
Agencywide
Some Intelligence ommuni y ac ivi ies
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
In order to ensure that the Agency has a viable financial and
budgetary system, it is necessary to undertake a series of
developments over the next five year period which result in moving
from present systems to those which are built upon the technological
environment of the 1980's and which are responsive to the requirements
of that environment.
Implement new or enhance existing financial and budgetary
processes and automate their improvements, specifically in the areas
of payroll, billpaying, accounting, and liaison.
1980 - 1985
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- Improvements in technology, particularly in data processing
and communications will continue to drive requirements for
financial and budgetary services beyond the capabilities of
our present financial and budgetary systems.
-- By 1985, the payroll system should permit telecommunication
of data into the system without redundant human processing,
also a real-time response to queries, and virtually unlimited
payee services.
-- An automated process that eliminates the bulk of low level
human processing will be required in the present
certification and bill paying processes.
-- Our accounting process will need remodeling in all aspects,
especially in the relationship between headquarters and the,
field. Present systems will not provide enough flexibility
and security to keep up with operational requirements.
-- Our financial liaison relationships
Department will require improvements.
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Customer(s):
Agencywide
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
To provide the optimum level of support to worldwide
logistical requirements by balancing the trade-offs between
the efficiences of centralization and the responsiveness of
decentralization; and to maintain maximum productivity
regardless of the mix of centralized and decentralized
organizational configurations.
To meet the objective of maximum productivity,
flexibility and efficiency, a Logistics Integrated
Management System (LIMS) must be defined and developed.
This system must include or communicate with material
management systems in offices throughout the Agency, must
communicate with GSA and Department of Defense supply
systems, must integrate and streamline supply, procurement
and financial requirements, and must provide the data for a
flexible management information system.
1980 - 1984
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- Existing automated systems can no longer be
enhanced or support additional applications in a
cost effective manner.
There will be no significant drop in Agency
requirements for materiel support.
Constrained financial and personnel resources will
diminish the ability of existing logistics systems
to respond to requirements.
LIMS can be accomplished with existing technology.
Sponsor(s):
Office of Logistics
Customer(s):
agency-wide
Community:
Community Staffs
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Provide Agency-wide information handling and office
automation capabilities such as electronic filing and
indexing and electronic mail similar to those of the SAFE
system.
Time Frame:
1983 - 1988
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- The initial SAFE system will have been successfully
installed within NFAC.
-- The wideband BUS communications system will be
successfully installed with expansion possible for
offices desiring the new service.
These capabilities will be of use to and will
satisfy requirements for Agency-wide information
handling.
-- The standard Agency terminals can be used for this
class of service.
Sponsor(s):
Office of Data Processing
Customer(s):
Agency-wide
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Provide a graduate-level education program that
increases the professional competence of intelligence
personnel.
Develop, for appropriate entry-level, mid-level, and
senior-level personnel a curriculum, faculty, and facility
that systematically explores the history, organization,
skills, policy, and functions of the practice of
intelligence.
1980 - 1983
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- Senior Agency management will support the program,
both in approving additional funds, personnel and
facilities needed to conduct the program, and in
selecting and releasing the appropriate student
population.
-- The program will not be fully operational before
the FY 1983/84 time frame.
Sponsor:
Office of Training
Customer(s):
Agencywide
Community activities
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement): .
Improve the Agency's ability to conduct an effective
Information Systems Security Program that controls the
inadvertent or deliberate compromise of data in Agency and
contractor information handling systems.
Develop a cadre of specialists to evaluate security
implications inherent in the hardware, software, and
operating procedures of individual systems, and to assess
and detect technical threats against information processing
hardware and software.
1982 - 1986
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- Information processing systems will be increasingly
adopted throughout the Agency. The trend toward
more, larger, and interconnected systems will make
it ever more difficult to recognize the security
risk potential in these information systems.
-- The potential risk of compromise increases sharply
as sensitive information is accessible from a
larger variety of technical sources.
-- Decentralization of data terminals worldwide with
access to multiple information data bases will
necessitate security surveys that span multiple
systems.
-- In order to enhance the information systems
security structure, it will be necessary to acquire
a limited number of highly skilled information
processing engineers and develop an increased
number of information security officers.
Sponsor:
Office of Security
.gencywide
community Staffs
Contractor Facilities
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Statement of Strategic Objective (Issue Statement):
Determine and implement acceptably expeditious methods
of review which will enable us to review 80 percent of our
20-year-old permanent records in the Agency's Systematic
Classification Review program by December 1986, adhering to
the spirit of E.O. 12065. Concurrently, develop plans for
the re-review of documents whose classification has been
retained, beginning in 1987.
1980 - 1988
Planning Assumptions (Explanation):
-- No change will be made in the systematic review
requirements established by E.O. 12065 and no
additional resources will be committeed to the
systematic review of activity.
-- A re-analysis of the Agency's holdings will provide
a more realistic (lower) estimate of the amount of
permanent material to be reviewed.
-- The current review can be changed if logical,
legal, and viable alternatives can be found.
Sponsor:
Agencywide
Other US Government Agencies
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FOREIGN POLICY ISSUE Tr:
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DIRECTORATE: DCI/Comptroller
ISSUE STATEMENT: There appears to be an accelerating breakdown of -conventional.
authority. Large groups'of people-no longer feel bound to the traditional
actors in foreign policy.
TIME r RA N : Continuing.
EXPLANATION: "International Communism" is fading as a monolithic force, but there
is a developing fragmentation of authority throughout the world which will make
the conduct. of foreign policy increasingly. difficult. large groups give primary
loyalty to religion, ideology, corporation, etc., and traditional governments may
have much less influence and control. over the actions of their citizens. The
US Government, in turn, may find it increasingly difficult to identify the right
levers to push in pursuing its aims.
INTELLIGENCE/MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS: Intelligence will be faced with new
targets requiring new methods,of collection.
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DIRECTORATE: DCI/Comptroller
ISSUE STATEMENT: Acquiring and retaining adequately trained personnel for the CIA
Df the-1980s.
TIME FRAME : Next 10 years.
EXPLANATION: As the tasks confronting the CIA in. the coming ten years change, it
-may become increasingly difficult to attract and retain an adequately trained
-staff. Further, the pre-employment training traditionally counted on by the
Agency is dwindling rapidly in supply (e.g., language instruction by universities,
technical training by the armed. services).
INTELLIGENCE/MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS: Agency management may have to consider
unconventional approaches to personnel acquisition and retention: higher entry
salaries, sponsored education and training on a large scale, trades with academia
and industry, etc. In the clerical area, increased automation, redefinition of
job requirements, and other means of increasing productivity should be seriously
examined before demographic and social forces cause a crisis of supply.
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ISSUE
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DIRECTORATE: DCI/Comptroller
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ISSUE STATEMENT:
II
TIME FRAM: 5 to 10 years in the future.
EXPLANATION: As the US becomes more and more just one of many actors in an
increasingly competitive world, there will be a greater need to collect
25X1 E_ j The collection problem will be compounded
by two main factors: our explosion-of requirements and-increasing secretiveness
on the part of targets. . .
INTELLIGENCE/MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS: This problem is sufficiently different
from the covert collection problems of today that special planning should be
undertaken for selection of targets, training of personnel, identification of
special equipment needs, etc..
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