PROPOSAL FOR CENTRALIZING EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R002404050051-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: December 5, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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Proposal for Centralizing Equipment Maintenance
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5 December 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: C/ADPSU, CPAS/Dl
SUBJECT: Proposal for Centralizing Equipment Maintenance
1. This is in response to the DCI's memorandum of 28 November in which
he urged all employees to submit proposals for better ways of doing things
directly to a top level review committee for a quick decision on their merit
and feasibility.
2. The attached proposal for the creation of a centralized ;maintenance
organization has already been around the proper channels. As you can read
between the lines of the response to the proposal, some reviewers thought it
was a good idea, some a bad idea, and some that it was too much trouble to
do anything about. The net result is that the proposal seems to be
indefinitely on hold.
3. The origins 'of this proposal came from an office conference in which a
number of people, especially those working at night without help from the
normal daytime support organizations, expressed concern about the frequency
of equipment failures as we become more and more automated. We see this
problem becoming increasingly serious in future years when most of our
people will be doing their jobs with the help of electronic equipment. Unless
we can find better ways of keeping it all working properly, 'office automation
may turn out to be more of a nightmare than a godsend.
3. Our proposal for a centralized maintenance organization may not be the
only or best solution to the problem, but we feel that someone should be
looking seriously at the issue rather than letting it bump along in the
traditional manner.
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SUBJECT: Proposal for Centralizing Equipment Maintenance
Distribution:
Orig - DDCI
1 - D/CPAS
1 - DDI
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