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(U//FOUO) The New Meade Operations Center
FROM:
Deputy Director for Data Acquisition
Run Date: 07/22/2003
(S//SI) "The times, they are a changin'..." Over the past 5 months,
a major effort on the part of SID, Extended Enterprise
Management, and the Service Cryptologic Elements (SCEs) has laid
the groundwork and started the transition of the National SIGINT
Collection Center (NSCC) into the Meade Operations Center (MOC).
The driving forces behind this transformation were the
fragmentation over time of the tasks performed in the NSCC, to
the extent that it had lost its identity; the lack of a clearly
identified strategy on the NSCC's role and position in the SIGINT
Enterprise, and plans by the SCEs to reallocate personnel
resources from the NSCC into Transformation areas.
(S//SI) The Director's vision of the MOC is a capabilities-based,
collection-focused element with specific responsibility for exploiting
midpoint access, both RF and cable. The MOC has ceased collection
of many legacy targets determined at a corporate level to be either
of little value, or duplicated elsewhere. This has allowed the MOC
to devote its remaining personnel and resources to new SIGINT
Development tasks with a trans-national emphasis.
(U//FOUO) To find out more about these tasks and how the MOC is
set up to accomplish them, click HERE .
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
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