Forwarded message: Date: 95-10-10 13:58:52 EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday they would hold a public hearing next week to get a rare peek into the spy world's tool kit for the 21st century.

The Oct. 18 hearing, fourth in the panel's series on reshaping the CIA and its sister intelligence outfits, ``will help us understand leading-edge technology developments and their potential effect,'' Republican Chairman Larry Combest and ranking Democratic member Norman Dicks said in a joint statement.

Combest of Texas and Dicks of Washington said the hearing would look at how technology can be brought to bear in all aspects of intelligence and examine what the bureaucracy should be doing to manage it.

Witnesses are Norman Augustine, president of Lockheed-Martin Corp.; Paul Kaminski, under secretary of defense for acquistion and technology, and Edward McCracken, chairman and chief executive of Silicion Graphics Inc.

Among topics of interest to the panel, a staff member said, are data-processing technology for the mountains of ``open source'' data that can be collected without secrecy, and computer programs that can recognize changes in satellite pictures of such things as forest cover.