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opportunity and affirmative action, and procurement operations. Computer systems used presently to project civil service personnel costs, to develop trust fund budgets, and to formulate five-year planning data will be extended to include the monitoring and projection of trust fund personnel costs. Word processing equipment will assist in the entire budget process and in various budgetary presentations. Investment management, oversight of the auxiliary activities, risk management, and grant and contract administration will all receive high priority attention. The internal audit programs will continue with the objective of achieving a five-year audit cycle.

Major personnel management objectives are guided largely by the requirements of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 for civil service employees, by comparable policies and procedures being developed for trust employees, and by equal opportunity and affirmative action programs applicable to all employees. Substantial progress has been made in developing performance appraisal and merit pay systems, in completing a personnel system and procedures for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute consistent with treaty implementing legislation, in preparing and distributing instructional materials on civil service and trust employees, in developing a directive on the Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program, and by initiating more aggressive training, development, and recruitment efforts for minorities and women in collaboration with bureaus and offices. Labor-management programs are continuing. Manager and supervisory training, including instruction in equal opportunity matters, has received high priority and will be continued. Programs of cooperative education with historically Black colleges and universities have been established and will be expanded. An augmented upward mobility program will offer more training opportunities to Smithsonian employees. Efforts are being made to improve employment opportunities for the handicapped and to facilitate accessibility to Smithsonian facilities and programs. These efforts will continue to be the major emphases of the next several years.

Plans for photographic services through FY 1986 call for a continuation of increased support for collections management, exhibitions, research, and publications. Routine processing services will be contracted whenever possible to save staff resources for assignment to special work. In support of collections management, photodocumentation of the collections will be stepped up to coincide with the inventory process, particularly in collections of high intrinsic value. Improvements to color printing capability are planned. Other basic objectives include expanding photographic assistance to researchers, including field photography; developing the negative catalogue and retrieval system; and eliminating hazardous nitrate negatives from photographic collections throughout the Institution.

Projections of needs for computer support over the next five years indicate a strong and growing demand for automatic data processing. All areas of institutional operation now receive such assistance but have stated the need for additional support for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Approximately 125 researchers now use mathematical and statistical programs, many of them taking advantage of interactive processing, for assistance in biological geological, and zoological research. Growing amounts of collections based information are now in computer storage available to answer questions from staff, students, and visiting researches; to process loans of objects; and