RECON PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PHASE

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• Publication Date: August 19, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Distribution
RECON Program Manager
Information Systems Research Division
Processing and Analydis Technology Group
Office of Research and Development
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RECON Program Implementation Phase
A. RECON Program Schedule (Attached)
B. ORD-651-82, Auto Dissemination Control
(ORCON Record Handling) dtd 21 May 1982
I. Overview
The RECON Guard Program Implementation Phase was formally
initiated with a series of two meetings held, in Washington, 12-
13 July 1982. Both meetings were chaired by myself as RECON
Program Manager. The meetings were segmented into a technical
meeting (12 July) and an executive review meeting (13 Jul
Attendees to both meetings are listed in Attachment C.
the Guard System implementation contractor,
also participated in the above meetings.
The Implementation Phase will be followed by the Feasibility
Demonstration Phase, the conclusion of which will mark the
completion of the RECON Guard program. The RECON program schedule
is charted in Reference A (attached). The schedule chart has
also been distributed to RECON committee members for comment.
II. Implementation Phase Initiation (12-13 July 1982)
Kickoff meetings for the implementation phase were held 12-
13 July 1982. These meetings were conducted in two (2) phases.
The technical meeting was held on 12 July; the executive review
meeting was conducted the following morning, 13 July.
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SUBJECT: RECON Program Implementation Phase
A. Technical Meeting (12 July)
1. The purpose of the technical meeting was to
identify contact persons (RECON committee) for each par-
ticipating office and introduce the implementation con-
tractor (SYTEK) team. Areas of responsibility (Attachment
B) were restated and appropriate contact persons identified.
2. Issues and questions to be resolved during this
phase of the RECON program were briefly discussed. The
purpose of these discussions was to identify, for all
committee members and contractor, the principal points of
contact as such issues are addressed during the RECON
Implementation Phase. For the duration of the Implementa-
tion Phase, the RECON committee and SYTEK will meet during
the second or third week of each month. Also the overall
program schedule was discussed. The revised schedule
(Reference A) is attached.
B. Executive Review Meeting (13 July)
1. The purpose of the executive review meeting was to
brief participating office directors on proposed activities
for implementation phase and introduce the SYTEK program
managers through a brief technical presentation of the SYTEK
Guard System design.
2. The technical discussions surfaced the need to
administratively resolve the ORCON problem. To solve the
ORCON problem, RECON record structure must be altered to
contain ORCON related information. The Guard System acts
only on the contents of the records it receives. Some
suggestions were discussed in Reference B. The decision to
implement required changes was still pending. The possi-
bility of obtaining two additional On-Line Guard devices was
discussed. The additional devices would be used to conduct
multiple channel (3) tests during the Feasibility Demon-
stration Phase, which immediately follows the present
Implementation Phase. The decision has been made to pur-
chase two additional On-Line Guard devices through an
expansion of the present SYTEK implementation contract. The
two additional on-Line Guard devices should have a
functionality exceeding that of the prototype On-Line Guard.
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Thus the modularity of the Guard System design could be more
fully exploited, while simultaneously achieving an exceed-
ingly more meaningful feasibility demonstration. The exact
nature of this increased functionality is TBD by the Govern-
ment and SYTEK during the initial weeks of the present
effort.
3. The use of COINS and possibly other networks as
common user networks for the RECON Guard program was
discussed. The COINS network, for Agency purposes, is an
untrusted environment. The potential exists for COINS to
misroute information once such information has been passed
by the RECON Guard System. The Guard System can insure that
no unauthorized Agency information is released to COINS over
the Guard-protected COINS link. However, once records are
passed to COINS or any other network environment, the records
are subject to that environment and cannot be controlled by
the Guard System. The multichannel test discussed in the
previous paragraph could provide additional granularity to
the On-Line Guard device thus providing some routing control
to separate networks. It should be remembered that once a
record is received, from the Guard System, by a network the
record is controlled by that network.
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III. Contractor Technical Briefings
SYTEK indicated they could conduct detailed technical
briefings, on the Guard System concept and design, for members of
the Intelligence Community.
Attachments:
A. RECON Program Schedule
B. Areas of Responsibility
C. List of Attendees (12-13 July)
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Areas of Responsibility
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Areas of Responsibility
Required Items, Responsible Organization, and Officers
? Overall program management
Guard system development
? Format and method of RECON output to
Guard
Definition of dissemination categories
Category parameters (selection criteria)
Category parameters mapping functions
Facilitate planning-and support
RECON system changes for Guard project
COINS matters
? Develop and supply necessary systems
? Develop and supply necessary common
hardware (HAS)
? Coordinate development of COINS/Guard
software
Development of security related acceptance
tests
Development of feasibility demonstration
procedures/objective
Security Certification of feasibility
demonstration and all security related
tests and results
. Responsible Officers
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SYTEK
OCR, ODP
OCR
OCR
OCR/SYTEK
COINS-PMO
COINS-PMO
COINS-PMO/
SYTEK/ORD
ORD/OS/SYTEK
ORD/OS/SYTEK
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List of Attendees
(12-13 July)
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