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(U//FOUO) The Collection Strategies and Requirements Center
FROM:
Deputy Director for Data Acquisition
Run Date: 07/15/2003
(TS//SI) The Collection Strategies and Requirements Center
(CSRC) serves as the "front door" for Data Acquisition and works
closely with Customer Relationships, Analysis and Production, and
the Extended Enterprise to ensure that a comprehensive crossprogram collection perspective is taken as NSA works to meet its
customers' needs. The CSRC was originally formed as part of the
creation of SID in February 2001, but really came to fruition post
9-11-2001. At that time the Deputy Director for Data Acquisition
surged dozens of people to the CSRC with the goal of having the
organization be the focal point for the orchestration of Data
Acquisition activities in response to the crisis. With the military
action in Iraq the CSRC has performed this "crisis" function again
as the Functional Lead for Collection Issues and operator of the
Data Acquisition Iraq Watch.
(TS//SI) The CSRC has three primary functions - daily
orchestration of the access, collection and exploitation system;
development of overarching data acquisition strategies in
accordance with the SID Operating Principles; and management,
monitoring, and troubleshooting of SID data flows.
(TS//SI) The Current Operations Division within the CSRC
evaluates daily collection requirements and, based on the target
communications being used and their vulnerabilities, assigns them
to appropriate collectors for action. They also work closely with the
Second Parties to ensure that we are effectively partnering on a
broad range of issues, to include the TICKETWINDOW sensitive
source sharing agreement. Additionally, this division provides
direct 24/7 connectivity between NSA and a critical Third Party
partner, targeting and compliance support to ensure effective
selector management, and supports the Senior Collection Officer
(SCO) desk in NSOC.
(TS//SI) The CSRC is a strong proponent of the SID Operating
Principles , using them as the methodology for the development of
strategies in the Strategy Development Division. In partnership
with subject matter experts from Analysis & Production and
Customer Relationships, the CSRC shapes and assembles SID-level
comprehensive strategies on high-priority targets or issues. In this
construct, Customer Relationships analyzes the customers'
information needs and provides both Analysis & Production and
Data Acquisition a thorough assessment of these needs. Analysis &
Production develops the analytic attack and the social networks of
a target of interest. The SIGINT Development organization
provides an assessment of the physical and logical networks
associated with the targets social networks. From this the CSRC
can determine where communications might be vulnerable, the
appropriate sensors for collection, any gaps and shortfalls, and
collection and exploitation capabilities that need to be developed
and deployed.
SERIES:
(U//FOUO) Data
Acquisition
1. Welcome to SID's
Data Acquisition
Directorate
2. The Collection
Strategies and
Requirements Center
3. Digital Network
Exploitation (DNE),
Digital Network
Intelligence (DNI)
and Computer
Network Exploitation
(CNE)
4. The Evolution of HF
5. The New Meade
Operations Center
(TS//SI) In December 2001 ITIS and SID jointly conducted a study
to determine the most effective manner, organizationally, to
manage and monitor SIGINT data flow. At that time the Data Flow
organization was moved from ITIS to SID to improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of the SIGINT data flow management
process and to couple it more closely with related functions. This
"tweaking," following the February 2001 reorganization, has been
very successful, enabling the CSRC to have the end-to-end mission
management picture from collection requirement to delivery of
data to an analyst/linguist for use. Management of data flow has
allowed the CSRC to develop effectiveness and efficiency measures
that will influence how mission management is done in the future.
(TS//SI) The CSRC served as the focal point for Data Acquisition
for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The CSRC ran a 24/7 shop manned by
personnel throughout Data Acquisition. The CSRC also had
individuals deployed to GRSOC, CENTCOM, and in-theater at
Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) in Kuwait.
Additionally, the CSRC has been the operational lead for the
development of CMM's Focused Demonstration for Iraq. The
Focused Demonstration is a key step in the development of CMM,
providing the CSRC, and ultimately other organizations, with the
ability to understand NSA's collection posture against a particular
target in a matter of minutes rather than the hours or even days it
can take now. The CSRC will continue to partner with CMM to
develop follow on projects that will present data in such a way that
will improve the timeliness of mission management decision
making.
(U//FOUO) The CSRC front office can be reached at
in
room 5A119. The CSRC's Iraqi Watch Center can be reached at
in room
. On NSA Web, type, "go csrc."
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid comms)."
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