MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN OFFICE OF LOGISTICS, OFFICE OF FINANCE AND OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REGARDING DDA CORPORATE DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CLAS AND BARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00191R000100010002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN
OFFICE OF LOGISTICS, OFFICE OF FINANCE
AND OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
REGARDING
DDA CORPORATE DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CLAS AND BARS
1. This Memorandum of Understanding between the Office of
Logistics, the Office of Finance and the Office of Information
Technology provides a commitment by the three offices to a
change of management responsibility for the project known as
BARS/CLAS under the DDA Corporate Data Program. The DC/IMSS/OL
will be responsible for overall Project Management and will
serve as the OL Program Manager. The Offices of Finance and
Information Technology shall provide a Program Manager for their
respective team responsibilities.
2. The Program Managers shall be responsible for developing
a project implementation strategy based upon the following
considerations:
a. availability of software releases from Cullinet;
b. target date of 1 October 1988 for IOC;
c. BARS/CLAS is a software package installation not a
software development program;
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d. the software packages represent the basic set of
requirements;
e. modifications and enhancements will be minimal and will
only be done for demonstrated requirements not included
in the package.
f. OL and OF will modify methods and procedures as a first
alternative to software modification;
g. All existing capabilities in current GIMS systems will
not exist in the initial IOC system under BARS/CLAS; and
h. All BARS/CLAS team members will cooperate within these
considerations to achieve a working system.
3. The Program Managers for OL and OF shall be responsible
for decision-making regarding the functionality of the packages,
i.e.; identifying and validating any additional modules that
require system programming, identifying modifications to
existing packages and devising procedural changes to accommodate
the packages. They will also be accountable for ensuring that
IOC system meets the legal and functional requirements of the
Agency through exhaustive prototyping, testing and coordination
of all transactions, regulations and procedures with'appropriate
components.
4. The OIT Program Manager will be responsible for
providing technical advice and consulting services to the
functional program managers regarding decisions made that have
an impact on technical resources, both system and human. He/she
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will also be responsible for providing technical support in the
form of programming, data base management, risk assessments,
level-of-effort estimates for modifications and enhancements to
the package software, and overall budget management for OIT
resources.
5. OL will provide space to enable the co-location of the
entire'BARS/CLAS project team, consisting of (staff
6. OIT will assist in terminal relocations and
re-allocation of communications ports to service the terminals.
OIT will also make available to OL Management the space vacated
and contract)
by the OIT and OF personnel that relocate
7. There will be a Configuration Control Board (CCB),
chaired by DC/IMSS/OL, with membership comprised of the OL, OIT
and OF Program Managers. OIT will not be a voting member. The
Chairman of the CCB will resolve all ties. A charter will be
established.
8. There will be an Engineering Review Board (ERB), chaired
by the OIT Program Manager, with membership consisting of all
team leaders from the BARS/CLAS Project. A charter will be
established.
9. This MOU will be subject to review and amendment at
periodic intervals but will not be altered without the agreement
of the three Office Directors.
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FOR THE OFFICE OF LOGISTICS FOR THE OFFICE OF FINANCE
By By
Director of Logistics Director of Finance
Date Date
FOR THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
By
Director of Information Technology
Date
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