GUIDELINES FOR PRODUCTION PLANNING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP98S00099R000500920019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: February 13, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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NFAC 1096-80
13 February 1.980
MEMORANDUM FOR: Office Directors, C/NIC, NI0s,
C/PME, CRES, SRP
SUBJECT: Guidelines for Production Planning
1. As agreed at the 13 February meeting on Research
Production, I would ask that each of you provide me or STAT
with your recommendations for modifications, ad itions biAi
or e etions to the list of Cardinal Issues by 19 February. STAT
We will consolidate them into a final draft.
2. I want to emphasize that this thematic approach
to constructing the plan has several specific objectives
which must be kept in mind as we move forward. One is to
devise a structure to which we can relate the bulk of
NFAC research including much of the NFAC conventional
and basic research that serves as building blocks for
more complex undertakings. D/NFAC continues to want a
document that covers the range of NFAC research--recognizing
that there continue to be different definitions of what
properly constitutes research. Secondly, through the
careful definition of subcategories under the Cardinal
Issues, we must identify issues that will stimulate the
development of multidisciplinary research that can cut
across organizational and regional or functional lines.
These will be a significant but relatively small portion
of the overall research effort. Such projects will require
new departures and will possibly reveal weaknesses in our
ability to deal with more imaginative and complex issues
that are of policy importance.
3. The challenge to the working groups will be to
develop a mix of issues that relate these separate categories
of research and yet not simply be a shopping list covering all
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SUBJECT: Guidelines for Production Planning
the work that NFAC has traditionally done. This will
require dedication and imagination on the part of the
groups. I would endorse the proposal sec forth at the
meeting that some review at the policy level of the
subcategories would be useful. In addition, D/NFAC will
be reviewing and prioritizing the issues in the framework.
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