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Statement of Work
The Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA)
has been tasked to
review a technical program which currently resides with
another sponsor.
This program seeks
to employ "remote
viewing ,
a paranormal phenomenon,
for intelligence
applications.
The CIA's Office of Research and Development
(ORD)
will contract with the American Institutes of Research
(AIR)
to assemble and manage a
"blue ribbon panel"
of outside
experts
to perform this review.
The panel will contain a
variety of experts with expertise peculiar
to the issues
in
question in order to achieve the objectives stated below.
The issues
to be addressed include program utility and
validity of technical approach,
and evaluation of the
research and development in this area
(within the program)
.
The AIR panel must render a finding as
to whether the program
achieves
its stated objectives,
(i.e.
does
it facilitate the
collection of
intelligence?)
and whether any changes
in the
operational,
experimental,
and assessment activities of the
program might bring about a better result.
Recommendations
should be made as
to appropriate strategies
for this program
in the future.
These recommendations should be based on the
data and information presented in the context of the program,
including experimental designs,
results obtained, proposed
future research,
etc.
The recommendations should address
which technical areas have potential
for future research and
identify areas not useful
for further consideration.
To facilitate this retrospective review,
we ask AIR to
perform the following tasks:
• Assemble an objective,
unbiased,
panel of world-class
experts
to investigate the operational,
experimental,
and
assessment activities of
the program.
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• Review selected contract research and development
studies relating to the technical program in for which
unclassified reports are available.
•
Interview and interact with the past principal
investigators
to the extent possible
in order to develop a
comprehensive understanding the program's current approach
including its successes and failures.
•
Interview,
if necessary,
past principal expert
evaluators of the technical data since external evaluation
has been utilized in the past to facilitate experimental
design and validate results.
• Attend unclassified presentations
in the Metro area by
the existing program manager.
•
Draft an interim report incorporating mid-term panel
findings
.
•
Draft a final report incorporating all panel
findings,
and participate the extent appropriate
in briefing these
findings
to various sponsor audiences.
•
Provide
15 days of ad hoc consulting from senior AIR
personnel on behavioral science related issues,
including the
preparation of a draft management strategy for any future
program work in this area if warranted by the review.
•
Support a final presentation of the findings of this
review to appropriate members of Congress or their staff,
if
necessary.
AIR will be provided with a preliminary annotated
bibliography of technical program studies.
The panel will be
able to select reports
for review from this bibliography and
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gauge the appropriate scope of information necessary to
complete the review's objectives.
AIR's panel review will be unclassified,
but
it cannot
be released until the sponsoring Agencies have been briefed
on the final results.
The anticipated level
of effort
for this review
is less
than one-half man year.
The anticipated schedule
is
to
complete this study by end of September,
1995.
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