CIA INTERFACE WITH DOD TRI-SERVICES COMMITTEE RE INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTORS NEGOTIATION OF ADVANCED AGREEMENT ON INDEPENDENT RESEARCH A

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5 April 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Science
and Technology
Chief, Procurement Management Staff
CIA Interface with DoD Tri-Services
Committee re Industrial Contractors
Negotiation of Advanced Agreement on
Independent Research and Development
1. Background:
Two facts have come to my attention: (1) the
Navy, through its office of NAVALEX, has undertaken
an aggressive posture on behalf of DoD in their
negotiation of advanced agreements for industrial
contractors' independent research and development
programs, and (2) the point of contact with the Agency
and the individual charged with the responsibility
of determining the relevance of various contractors'
independent research and development proposals to our
present and future needs was a 25X1
assigned to SAG/OD&E. resigned from the 2bX1
Agency in June, 1981.
From what I can gather, no one has picked up this
responsibility. This latter fact causes me concern.
For your information, most of the industrial contractors,
especially those in the aerospace industry, negotiate
fairly healthy agreements normally in the tens of
millions of dollars to conduct independent research
and development. We, the Agency, in fact pay our
fair share of that amount in the contractor's indirect
expense rates. As the situation now stands, the Navy
negotiator for NAVALEX is not aware of our interest and
if DoD doesn't have a parallel interest they will not
approve a contractor's proposed independent research in
a particular area. We could be missing an opportunity
by not providing the Navy a specific input on each of the
contractors' proposed independent research and development
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SUBJECT: CIA Interface with DoD Tri-Services Committee
re Industrial Contractors Negotiation of
Advanced Agreement on Independent Research
and Development
undertakings. We should recognize that this may be an
opportunity to channel independent research and
development funds into areas of our specific need
and thereby reduce the amount of "seed" money we
continually place thru ORD and SAG with contractors
such as LMSC, TRW, E-Systems, Rockwell, Harris, etc.
2. Recommendation:
I recommend that the DDS&T establish a focal point
officer to review each contractor's proposed independent
research and development proposals and provide specific
input to the Navy as to which areas are of interest to
the Agency. I would suggest that the Office of Research
and Development be given the lead in this matter, to
act as the focal point and be made responsible for
advising the Navy negotiators of the various needs of
the DDSFT.
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