REQUEST FOR SUPPORT TO OP/EMPLOYMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G00993R000200070001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 1, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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9:13 AM -- 1 December 1986
Note To: Director of Information Technology
From:
Subject: Request for Support to OP/Employment
1. I'm sending this note to request additional OIT support for the
Office of Personnel.
2. Several months ago an informal deal was struck between the ADDA
and OD&E. (I'm not sure about the genesis of this arrangement.) OD&E
offered to work with the Office of Personnel to develop a computer model
for the Agency's applicant processing pipeline. The ADDA accepted this
offer. Starting in September, a small OD&E team of staff and
contractors interviewed dozens of people in OP, OS, and OMS to document
the pipeline process. In the last two weeks the team analyzed the data
and developed a conceptual model. They briefed the DDA and ADDA last
week and obtained concurrence to continue the development of a computer
model.
3. During the briefing, the OD&E team asked the DDA for support from
OIT in several areas:
a. They want help in building an interface between the OD&E model and
the CAPS database so that they can extract CAPS data on a periodic
basis to feed the model.
b. They want OIT's participation in the design review of the model.
c. They want OIT to maintain and support the model after its delivery.
The DDA tentatively agreed to these requests. He asked me to arrange
the support through you.
4. I spoke with about this last week and asked how best
to make this request. He suggested an AIM note to you.
5. I feel certain that OIT's role in this effort is negotiable. My
personal recommendation (wearing my OIT hat) would be to agree to work
with OD&E to develop the CAPS-model interface, to maintain that
interface, and to participate in the model design review. I'd recommend
that you suggest that, since OD&E built the computer model, then they
should support it. An alternative would be for OIT to agree to develop
the model using the data gathered by OD&E.
6. I have numerous technical concerns about the OD&E approach to the
model. First, it is designed to predict the future based on the past.
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(Hence the need for CAPS data to feed it.) Second, it is designed to
hardwire most of the options, rather than making them user-selectable.
And third, the model will be written in FORTRAN, rather than any of the
excellent modelling languages (DYNAMO, GPSS, CSMP, etcetera). I
expressed these concerns during the briefing, but they fell on deaf OD&E
ears.
7. Please let me know your reaction to this request as soon as
practical. The OD&E model is scheduled to have a design review in_
January and be delivered in March. The primary customer would be
the DD of Personnel for Employment.
CC: DD/OIT
C/MD/OIT
C/MISG/OIT
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