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(U//FOUO) Ardisana Award for 2001
FROM: the Collection Association
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Run Date: 07/08/2003
(S//SI) The NSA Collection Association is proud to announce the
winner and runner-up of the 2001 Ardisana Award for Collector of
the Year. The winner is
of Yakima Research
Station, and the runner-up is
of Bad Aibling
Station.
(S//SI)
has served at the Yakima Research
Station (YRS) since January 2001. He has made YRS's Dialed
Number Recognition (DNR) collection his personal responsibility.
He pointed out a procedural flaw in YRS's target development
process, and corrected this flaw by making OPC/DPC (Origination
Point Code/Destination Point Code) verification a standard part of
target discovery. He also establishing a process allowing carriers
from different satellites and originating from different countries to
be correlated and processed effectively; this contributed to
counter-terrorism signals collection.
(C//SI)
was the first collector at YRS to break out the
new Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) carriers seen in our
environment, and made recommendations about which signals
should be put on collection.
has also shown
tremendous insight into systems operation and troubleshooting: he
is the recognized expert across the Collection Branch for several
C2C, DNR, and INMARSAT processing systems. Finally, he is
responsible for providing more reportable voice/fax traffic to the
Target Development Branch than anyone else at YRS.
(TS//SI) The runner-up,
, is currently working at
Bad Aibling Station as the Signals Analysis Team Leader of the
Signal Search and Development (SSD) Branch. He directs BARC
(Bad Aibling Research Center) resources and personnel in support
of the Global War on Terrorism. For example,
partnered
with technology experts at NSA, the National Reconnaissance
Office, and the European Technical Center to exploit a new protocol
carrying voice and fax transmissions used by the Taliban
leadership and other Islamic extremists and terrorists.
excellent analysis in support of ENDURING FREEDOM prompted
national and theater-level customers to task seven new target
communications.
(S//SI)
excellent teaching skills were vital in training
ten 66th MI GP operators regarding FORNSAT communications,
and he authored a detailed 75-page Wonderworks Database
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and user manual used at
YRS and other collection sites.
(U//FOUO) These are just some of the achievements of the
honorees. Well done!
SERIES:
(U//FOUO) Collection
Association Awards
1. Collection
Association AwardWinners Named
2. Mooney Award for
2001
3. Ardisana Award for
2001
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