JERKIN I&W GRAPHICS SYSTEM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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1. PROJECT TITLE: JERKIN I&W Graphics System
Submitting Agency: NSA
II. FUNDS: FY83
III. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
a. Statement of need:
Maps and timelines essential for the analysis and reporting of
Indications and Warning information are, at present, produced and
updated manually, using acetate overlays and grease pencils. Data
from earlier events, stored in such a bulky medium, cannot be retrieved
rapidly enough to be-used in assessing current events. Maps and timelines
must be redrawn by graphics artists so that they can be reproduced for
end-product reports. And because there is no capability for NSA to
transmit graphically to other warning centers, NSA for the most part
converts map and timeline information to narrative form and transmits
it electrically to warning centers,-which then go through the reverse
process of converting the narrative information to timelines and maps.
What is needed is a computer graphics system which can serve
as a tool for rapidly creating, updating and comparing maps and timelines
for use in analyzing Indications and Warning information; provide storage
and retrieval of maps and timelines for use in historical comparison
and for conversion to end-product; and provide a capability to transmit
map and timeline displays electrically to users (e.g., SAC, NNCC, NMIC,
NORAD) on a current basis.
b. Who Will Accomplish:
The National Security Agency
c. What is to be developed:
The I&W analyst will be provided with the capability to display,
modify, transmit, and produce in hard copy form 1) geographic plots
d. Time Phasin :
Procurement of most of the hardware, and development of the basic
system software will have to be accomplished in the first year. The
be_accom lished
transfer of the capability to-operational systems will
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IV. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY APPLICABILITY:
The many Indications and Warning centers which rely on SIGINT
and produce warning information themselves would benefit both by
being able to receive I&W information in timeline and map form and
by adopting for their own use any I&W graphics capability developed
through the proposed effort.
V, INTELLIGENCE CONSUMER BENEFITS:
Users of SIGINT I&W information will benefit by the increased
depth and timeliness of reporting, and by the immediate usability
of maps and timelines forwarded in graphic form. The number of
crisis or other high-interest events for which SIGINT I&W information
can be provided will be increased.
VI. PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS:
The key elements of an.I&W graphics capability, maps and timeline
displays, have not yet been developed by any company or agency, nor
have the distribution problems associated with transmission of graphics
directly to users been resolved. Some experimental work has been
accomplished by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
in the area of making file retrieval and data manipulation procedures
immediately (with 1-2 hours' training) usable, but the capability has
never been tested in a working environment. Development of the
software for unique I&W applications, and resolution of problems
In forwarding graphics on communications networks, pose a considerable
challenge, but have a reasonably. high probability of success,
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