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... had issued a "Master Plan for the Development of the Future SSA Process." This called for a six-year effort -- from July 1975 to June 1981 -- with four overlapping~phases. At the end of 1976, the GAS was completing Phase I, Conceptualization, and was beginning Phase II, Requirements Definition, when it asked the National Research Council to review its f^'m=H he Oh's Nnti anal Research Council conducted its General Accounting Office had recommended work.
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... The cornerstone of the SSA system should be modularity, with the total process segmented into clearly separable subsystems possessing well defined interfaces. The communications subsystem could be designed and developed concurrently, for example, but relatively independent from the other parts of the system.
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From page 5...
... Thus, the panel recommends that enumeration, meaning the inclusion of the SSN, be made operational and stabilized prior to the initiation of other functional conversions. The communications network and terminals might be deployed and in operation prior to the initiation of the enumeration process, so that the district offices have access to both SSN identity information and earnings data, once those processes are converted.
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... Development and implementation of the future SSA process should be in the hands of top management within the agency. Responsibility for the planning, development, and implementation of the process cannot be bestowed on or abdicated to a contractor.
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From page 7...
... closely monitored and controlled by the SSA. The panel is sanguine about the inherent capability of computer and communications technology to support the future process.
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  • single center
  • base storage


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