OIT INPUT TO DCI'S SPEECH AT THE 12 JULY SIS PROMOTION CEREMONY

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• Publication Date: June 21, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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25X1 MEMORANDUM FOR:
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21 June 1988
Executive Assistant/DDA
VIA: Director of Information Technology
25X1 FROM:
SUBJECT:
Chief, Management Services Division, MG, OIT
OIT Input to DCI's Speech
at the 12 July SIS Promotion Ceremony
1. Pursuant to your note of 20 June, I am forwarding herewith an
outline of the significant accomplishments of the Office of Information
Technology during the past six months. They are listed in order of
25X1 importance with the item concerning the relocation of the
Computer Center to the NHB being of greatest significance in terms of
impact on the Agency and the cooperation of the various offices in
making this effort a success. It should be noted that this was the
largest computer center move in history in terms of equipment and time
constraints.
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2. A few of the items have been provided in classified form so
that the substance would be clear to your office. Unclassified versions
can be created easily by eliminating references to particular foreign
locations or sources and methods.
3. Insofar as challenges are concerned, OIT's primary emphasis
will be on enhanced customer service in the face of shrinking resources
and continuing support to the Agency move to the NHB.
3. If there should be any questions. please dn nnf hesitate to
contact me
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WORKING NOTES
21 Jun 88
OIT Accomplishments - FY 1988
(For SIS ceremony)
RELOCATION OF THE COMPUTER CENTER TO NHB
The Office of Information Technology, in a major effort. successfully
25X1 moved the Agency's general-purpose computer systems from the Computer
Center to the New Headquarters Building over the Memorial Day weekend, 27-30
May. The move included five IBM mainframes, associated peripheral equipment,
25X1 and characters of on-line data storage. A total of major
25X1 hardware units and data tapes were moved to the New Building Operations
Center. All systems were available to employees as usual upon their return to
work the morning of 31 May. Other moves to the New Building have included the
Community-wide Computer-assisted Compartmentation Control (4-C) System, the
Decision Support and Information System on Terrorism (DESIST) and the COMIREX
25X1 Automated Management System (CAMS) Development Facility.
CRAY SUPERCOMPUTER
The Office of Information Technology has achieved Initial Operating
Capability for the Cray X-MP/24 supercomputer, in a joint effort with the
Office of Information Resources and the Office of Scientific and Weapons
Research (OSWR), DI. The Cray, which has been estimated to run scientific
applications more than 20 times faster than IBM's largest mainframe computer,
is being used by OSWR to process numerically-intensive computer models and
simulations such as those needed for satellite orbit and antisubmarine warfare
25X1 computations.
DESIST
In support of the Directorate of Operations, the Office of Information
Technology is continuing to enhance operation of the Decision Support and
25X1 Information System on Terrorism (DESIST).
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PCERIC
The Office of Information Technology is continuing in several ways its
long-standing commitment to physically challenged employees. Items newly
added to its Physically Challenged Employees Resource Information Center
(PCERIC) include a screen magnification system offering vision impaired
customers the capability to enlarge computer text displays up to 16 times, and
a braille printer that enables visually impaired and sighted persons to print
braille as well as regular text. The Office also has acquired a
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) to enable its career management
and training personnel to communicate with deaf employees and applicants via
telephone. Moreover, an Adaptive Technology Awareness Day, sponsored jointly
with the Office of Personnel, presented state-of-the-art technology for
accommodating jobs to physically challenged individuals. [Note: The DCI
began the day by introducing the guest, speaker, Mr. Richard Pimentel of Milt
25X1 Wright and Associates.]
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Office of Information Technology is continuing its forward-leaning
development efforts using artificial intelligence teehninup Th p nffipp ha
delivered a map-based artificial intelligence system
me orrice also is developing a Tasking Expert Support System (TESS) that uses
artificial intelligence software to help collection requirements officers and
analysts construct imagery tasking requirements. In conjunction with the
Collection Requirements and Evaluation Staff, DI, TESS has been demonstrated
to several Agency and Intelligence Community offices that have expressed keen
interest in such "smart" collection management tools. The TESS project is
considered to be a major oward achieving needed Community imagery
25X1 tasking capabilities.
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
The Office of Information Technology is continuing its ongoing
development of computer systems to help the Agency carry out its everyday
activities more effectively. As these administrative systems are developed,
the elements of a corporate data environment are being established using
commercially-available software. Development efforts that have reached
operating capability this year include:
The Office of Personnel's Corporate Data Personnel System (CDPerS),
which provides rapid retrieval of a subset of the Agency's personnel
data. Operating in the Integrated Database Management System (IDMS)
environment, CDPerS provides a foundation of personnel data for OIT's
Corporate Data Program.
The Office of Personnel's Electronic Time and Attendance System
(ELECTAS), which is used by Time and Attendance clerks throughout the
Agency to record employee T&A information. ELECTAS has been expanded to
handle enough users so that it can encompass the entire Agency
population.
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The basic recordkeeping functions of the Office of Personnel's
FERS-THRIFT (Federal Employees Retirement System-Thrift Savings Plan
[TSP]) system. The system is being used to produce participant
statements for the current TSP "Open Season." Other major functions
being integrated into the basic recordkeeping system include loan
processing and inter-fund transfer.
The Office of Personnel's Integrated Applicant Processing System
(IAPS) was made operational in the Offices of Personnel and Medical
Services and is being extended to the Office of Security. When fully
implemented, IAPS will improve processing and tracking of applicants from
initial contact through processing and entrance on duty, and will provide
components on-line retrieval of current applicant data.
The Claims Processing portion, EXAMINER, and the Checkwriter portion
of the Office of Personnel's Insurance Claims, Accounting, Reporting, and
Enrollments (ICARE) system are being used to adjudicate 1988 claims.
25X1 During a recent week, claims processed on the new system
represented a 58 percent increase in productivity over the manual system
previously used, and resulted in a 21 percent reduction of the claims
backlog.
The Office of Medical Service's Medical Information, Diagnosis, and
Artificial Intelligence System (MIDAS). MIDAS replaces two independent
systems with one centralized IDMS database of patient information,
providing increased capabilities and flexibility in dealing with medical
lab tests and results. Additional elements planned for MIDAS this year
include an automatic SCHEDULER, to automate the handling and scheduling
of requests for medical examinations, and connections from MIDAS to the
centralized Corporate Data Personnel database and to medical diagnostic
equipment.
The Office of Training and Education's Training and Education
Automated Management System (TEAMS). TEAMS enables Agency components to
submit training requests electronically. The data is transferred
automatically into a database for retrieval and processing. TEAMS also
uses the Agency standard IDMS database mana ement s stem, replacing
25X1 older, incompatible, training databases.
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SUBJECT: (Optional)
DCI's Speech at 12 July SIS Promotion Ceremony
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
14 June 1988
R. M./Huffstutler
Deputy Director for Administration
William M. Baker
Director, Public Affairs
DCI's Speech at 12 July SIS Promotion Ceremony
1. The Judge will be presenting SIS promotion certificates to Agency
employees on 12 July at 3:00 p.m. in the Headquarters Auditorium. This
ceremony, though conducted at the unclassified level, is an excellent
opportunity for the Judge to discuss the major challenges facing the Agency
during the rest of this year and 1989, as well as to note the accomplishments
of the first six months of this year.
2. I would appreciate it if you would indicate, in a two or three page
unclassified memorandum, what you consider to be the major challenges facing
your Directorate this year and the next. As part of that memorandum, please
list five of your Directorate's accomplishments this year that would be
appropriate for the Judge to discuss in this speech. This list of
accomplishments might include but is not limited to these areas: support to
the policy community; extraordinary performance by individuals; and
organizational changes that have improved the Agency's responsiveness or
efficiency.
3. Please forward this material to the Judge's speechwriter,
(1016 Ames, by Thursday, 23 June.
William M. Baker
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