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Officer is responsible for programming Office estimate contributions in the OSI research plan, drafting Office contributions, arranging IB review of Office contributions to ONE or to ad hoc committees or working groups of the SIC, and coordinating Office representation at Board of National Estimate and USIB representatives meetings. Until the late 1950's, much of this work was done primarily by the [redacted] Since that time, however, with the increasing complexity of scientific fields, the Office has appointed individual project officers to deal with estimates of major interest to OSI. These project officers are generally senior OSI division analysts with the requisite technical and intelligence background. The project officers work with other analysts from within the office and coordinate the drafting of major contributions for IB review and attend all pertinent meetings of the BNE and USIB representatives.
OSI seldom contributes directly to a national estimate; most OSI production is prepared for USIB committees and their subcommittees and working groups. These contributions are reviewed by the OSI Intelligence Board prior to submission to these various groups. Occasionally they will be reviewed and approved only by the D/OSI or the DD/OSI. This review procedure was established fairly recently in order that the Office
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