10 JANUARY MEETING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: January 10, 1979
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Dr. William J. Perry
Chairman, IR&D Council
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DCI/RM 79-1101
10 January 1979
Executive Director, IR&DC
SUBJECT:
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Director of Central Intelligence
Intelligence Research and Development Council.
Washington, D.C. 20505
10 January Meeting
1. Attendance: See list in folder.
2. Agenda
a. Opening Remarks
-- Three briefings today.-.schedule is tight.
-- Twenty minutes at end for Business Session on CY-79
Objectives.
b. Briefing on DoD Master Plan for Intelligence Support to
Tactical Commanders - Dr. Wallace Henderson, OUSD (C J1)
-- Call on Walley
-- Outline
o Introduction - Purpose, problem, scope
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- Provide a requirements oriented basis.for resource
allocation
- Correct deficiencies
o Objectives
- Clear identification of resource allocation responsibility
Identify and rectify organizational issues
Ensure integrated systems approach
- Ensure adequate communications support
- Reduce research/acquisition time
- Energetic implementation of plan
o Principles and Concepts
- Requirements tied'directly to missions, functions,
and war plans of each echelon of command.
- Economy of force
- No hardware to solve organizational problems
- Balance release of data and protection of source
- Tailor system output to users
- Interoperability
- Funding and management in accordance with primary use
o Collection Opportunities/Threat Environment
o Identification of Information Requirements
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o Capabilities - description of system by platform,
discipline, function, environment, ownership, tasking
and numbers
o Problem Areas and Deficiencies
- Communications,. compartmentation/releasibility,
collection management, personnel and training,
processing and automation, collection system capabilities,
.and availability, data bases, and survivability.
o OSD/JCS/NSA Actions
- Create a focus
- Complete detailed requirements, analysis and.
documentation
- Develop tactical communciations and fusion center
architectures
- Develop classification and release procedures
- Establish tasking and feed-back procedures for.
global/national and theater systems
- Define availability of systems as a function of.
Defcon or crisis conditions
Ensure yearly revision of this plan
o Service Actions
o Related Plans and Actions
o Annual Review Procedures
o Gut Issues
Intelligence system accuracy should not exceed the,
accuracy of existing and planned systems they support
- Systems and systems architectures must be designed-for.
war
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- Those nodes that use information for immediate decisions
and actions should be first order, first priority,
direct recipients
- Threat must drive systems design and acquisition
- Source of.intelligence is immaterial as long as
requirements are satisfied
- Systems should be as survivable and the units they
support
- Informaion needs must'be based on missions, functions,
and tasks of that echelon and must be prioritized .
- Systems must be designed from collection of information
through its delivery to the users
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-- Discussion on CY-79 Objectives
- See folder - copies sent to members - priorization
vote sheet included (note spread of votes)
- Results of your talk with the DCI
will propose a #8 - Soviet technology.
Suggest info briefings on Intelligence support to R&D,
managers may suffice.
3. Next meeting - 14 February, 0830 - 1130.
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