EVALUATION OF EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE CONTRACTS FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL (S&T) ANALYSIS SUPPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: July 22, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
Intelligence Community Staff
DCI/IC 76-1983
22 JUL 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Evaluation of External Assistance Contracts
for Scientific and Technical (S&T) Analysis
Support
1. The USAF/ACI, General Keegan, in a letter to the
Chairman, USIB called attention to a possible wasteful
duplication of effort in S&T external assistance contracts
and suggested that an Intelligence Community register of
external assistance contracts would effect savings in money
and manpower. Tn response, the DCI queried the Department
of State as to the utility of the Under Secretaries Com-
mittee's foreign affairs research data base as a means to
effect contract coordination within the Intelligence
Community. After receipt of a negative assessment, the DCI
raised the issues at IRAC as a resource management problem.
Subsequently, at the request of ASD/I, the Intelligence
Community Staff formed an interagency ad hoc group to survey
the problem and recommend solutions as appropriate.
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was found to be duplicative. The responses also pointed
out that contractors and intelligence agencies working
similar data frequently arrived at significantly different
results, and that only after presentation and discussion of
differences., often quite subtle in nature, can final con-
clusions be drawn with confidence. In this process some
apparent duplication is desirable, and thus in a true
sense is complementary. Discussions with committee members
also brought out that:
a. There are overlapping responsibilities among
analysis and production components of the Community.
b. NFIB committees and working groups tend to
eliminate unnecessary duplication through technical exchanges
and working meetings.
4. There may be some overlap within the complementary
category of S&T external assistance contracts. These over-
laps, however, do not appear to result from a lack of
mutual "visibility" among. Community agencies. The establish-
ment and. maintenance of a master register of S&T contractual
statements therefore would not provide measurable savings
in S&T analysis resources, or enhance the quality of the
work performed. It is apparent that significant gains in
resource efficiencies could not be anticipated without clear
delineations of responsibility between NFIP S&T intelligence
production elements. .
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