Sharing SIGINT metadata on ICREACH

ICREACH: Sharing SIGINT Comms Metadata with the Intel Community Tech Director, Target Analysis Center Run Date: (CHREL) Remember when you were little and your mom always told you it was nice to share? I don't know ab out you, but sometimes in the intervening years it seems we forget ab out that little axiom. Recently those of us who are members of the Intelligence Community (IC) have been advised that we have to do a lot more sharing. Congress has told us, the 9:11 and WMDI Commissions have reminded us, and the Department of Defense strategy for improving operations insists on information sharing. While NSA has been sharing information for years through tailored product reporting, write-to-rele ase efforts, ELINT2 metadata and tearline reporting, we are now going a step beyond that and are acmally sharing STEIN comm unicnu'ons metadata through a program called ICREACH. (SHREL) ICREACH intends to make more metadata accessible to our Intelligence Community brethren primarily for the purposes of situational awareness and target development. This metadata is not to be used for targeting; instead provisioning of the metadata to IC intelligence should foster greater collaboration on targets of interest. Like NSA's internal tool, CLCIEALREACH, ICREACH is a one-stop shopping tool for consolidated communicau'ons metadata analytic needs. (SHREL) Through ICREACH, IC can access all appropriate data sets related to telephony (and eventually DNI4 data) with a single login. The IC intelligence will be validated by the ICREA CH point of contact from their particular agency, must be part of the U.S. Intelligence Community, must hold a TSHSI clearance and must have a PKI certificate in order to access the data through . Each person will be provided an account only after their need for it is verified by the Agency PDC and they have received training on the tool, the procedures, and the technologies represented in the metadata. (SIESIAREL) For the first time, IC intelligence will have immediate access to SICINT Party metadata as soon as the data is loaded in the centralised metadata repository. The FASCIA Call, PCSE and INMARSAT tables willbe the first ones accessed in the ICREACH Beta release, now being piloted by a very limited number of IC Reference data from other NSA projects like AE-SCICIATICIN, TAPERLAY, and is also queried. If the numb er is tasked in a simple "yes" is returned with the event data. (SHEIAREL) Responses thus far from the beta testers have been largely positive with some very interesting questions, comments, observations and suggestions being provided, considered, and where possible, implemented. Future plans call for a rollout to additional IC agencies and Unified Commands (DIA and are next on the list for training) and access to other sources of metadata. NBA and CIA are developing an interface to enable access to their metadata through ICREA so that there is a reciprocal exchange of information. (UHFCIUCI) If you have questions on ICREA CH, you may direct them to the following individuals: - For questions ab out the rollout of ICREACH to the nest sets of us ers:? 1,

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