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These are "busy" charts, but provide a place to start. Let me know
your reaction and how you'd like to proceed with this preparation for
the Hill. I've dubbed in the identities of the sponsors for obvious
reasons, at least until they have been released publicly. You will also
note that there are places where data is missing, either because I
don't have the required Info or because it relates to a future, still
unscheduled, activity or event.
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P.S. I spoke to Ed early this AM (left a note on his voice mail last
night) and he will FAX the "best" list
sometime this morning (our
time).
Also have rec'd nothing re financial forms you mentioned - will
Dee send them to me or what?
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Presentation Overview
· Brief Program History - Management,
performers and funding
· Summary of completed activities:
- Documentation cataloging
- Review and evaluation of operational
tasking
· Summary of on-going activities:
- Blue Ribbon Panel - Members, terms of
reference, schedule
- Meetings with operational customers -
complete evaluation
· Program review completion schedule
· Tentative recommendations
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Program History
Agency
Total Funding
Fiscal Years
YYY
'74 -'77
$XXXK
USA
XX-XX
XXXK
ZZZ
‘79 -'94
XXXXK
Total $'s:
XXXXK
R&D Contractor
SRI
'74 - '89
$XXXXK
SAIC
'89 - '93
XXXK
Total R&D contract $'s:
XXXXK
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Documentation Review
[Completed activities]
· All available contractor documents
cataloged
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Government Star Gate documents
cataloged
· Summary catalog of all operational
tasking
· Annotated bibliographies prepared for:
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Contractor documents, classified,
unclassified and
downgraded
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Star Gate government documents
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Evaluation of Operational Tasking
Completed review:
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All numerically evaluated tasks,
random "others"
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Star Gate procedures and methods
for responding
·
Criteria and procedure for
evaluating/scoring SG data
Analyzed:
·
Scoring results of 40 operational
tasks
Preliminary Conclusions:
Utility of process to intelligence
community is marginal
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Return-on-investment should be
assessed before
additional expenditures on operational
tasks
TBD:
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Interview operational tasking
organizations
·
Modify and publish final report of
evaluation
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Blue Ribbon Panel - Status & Plans
·
American Institutes of Research
(AIR) selected to create
panel &
manage review
- Panel members identified
- Interim "SECRET" provided
6/14/95 - First AIR/YYY staff meeting
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Defined Terms of Reference (TOR) and
review criteria
- Provided unclassified documents
- Developed guidance for selecting
"Best Case" review
documentation
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First Panel meeting - 6/XX/95
- Distributed TOR and review criteria
- Distributed "Best Case" reports
Completion schedule:
- 7/95 - Review of "Best Case"
documents, et al
- 8/95 - Panel meetings/discussions,
Interim Report
- 9/95
- Member reports, AIR review &
commentary
- 9/30/95 - Final Report of review
findings & conclusions
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Declassification Review
· Program sponsorship - completed
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Program documentation:
- YYY: o Program Summary sanitized
o Declass approval requested
- ZZZ Contractor reports:
o All are available to AIR staff
o Declass other reports as/if
required by Panel
OR, if necessary, clear reviewers
- ZZZ Government reports:
o Declass reports as/if required
by Panel
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Estimated Schedule to Completion
·
8/1/95 - Final Report of Operational
Tasking Evaluation
· 9/30/95 - Blue Ribbon Panel Final Report
to YYY
12/1/95 - Final Report and
Recommendations to Congress
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Some Tentative Recommendations
[based upon review to date]
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Future Contract R&D Efforts:
- Await results of Blue Ribbon Panel
- BUT, if recommended, need for
Intelligence Community
sponsorship is
not justifiable under current SOA
- IN FACT, such sponsorship
complicates, perhaps obviates,
useful
international cooperation
· Foreign Assessment Efforts:
- Can be done via unclassified contract
unless evidence of
covert, foreign
activities
- IC should obtain, review, evaluate any
resulting reports
· Operational Tasking & Applications:
- In light of marginal current value and
reducing budget,
terminate in-
house RV capabilities
- Clearable contractors available to
perform RV services
if operational
users need support, i.e., fee-for-service
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Fax Cover Sheet
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To:
From:
Company:
Date: Tue, Jun 20, 1995
Time: 9:37 AM
No. of pages (not including cover): 10
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Comments:
PLEASE PASS TO
ASAP. THANX
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