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(U//FOUO) SIGINT and the Department of Homeland Security
FROM:
SID Account Manager for Homeland Security
Run Date: 09/05/2003
(U) Related note: Mr. Larry Castro will present briefings on 8 and 9 September here at NSA on
the Agency's support to DHS. See the NSA-all email for further details.
(U//FOUO) On 1 March 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assumed operational
control of nearly 180,000 employees from 22 different agencies. Six months later, the
Department is taking shape as it merges those agencies into a cohesive organization that will
allow it to best fulfill its "Homeland Security" mission. While the transformation is far from
complete (after all, this is the largest reorganization in the federal government in over 50
years!), NSA is there as it has been since Day 1 reaching out to support the new Department.
(C) Even before DHS began to articulate its INs (Information Needs), SID began to proactively
"push" Homeland Security-related SIGINT products to them. SID had existing well-established
relationships with organizations that have now been merged into the new Department, such as
the Secret Service and Coast Guard . SID continues to send reports directly to them; however,
we also send the reports to the DHS-wide designator (HOMESEC) to ensure other DHS
customers, including senior leadership, are also informed.
(S//SI) DHS customers' intelligence interests and their INs range from typical terrorist-related
topics, to views of foreign officials on U.S. policy decisions, economic conditions that may affect
foreign views on Homeland Security related initiatives, and even foreign responses to health
issues (such as recent reporting on the SARS epidemic). SID continues to work with DHS to
identify and formalize their SIGINT INs.
(S) SID Product Line offices have been very proactive in providing as much information as
possible in SECRET level tear-lines or Write-to-Release sections of reports. Furthermore, SID
Customer Response is looking for new and innovative ways to get both TS//SI and sanitized
SIGINT into the hands of customers as effectively as possible. This is especially important for
DHS, since they do not yet have a unified, internal classified computer network. The TS//SI
information is being disseminated across DHS, but there is no efficient means to share it. There
are a number of delivery/dissemination programs being considered to possibly use with DHS as
a testbed.
(U) This is a quick look at the kind of support SID has been providing to DHS. If you are
wondering what else we are doing, or you believe your office has a service or product that may
be useful in supporting this customer, contact the SID Account Manager for Homeland Security,
or the Senior Executive Account Manager, Pres Winter.
(U//FOUO) For more information on the Department of Homeland Security and NSA's support to
it, to include the National Strategy for Homeland Security (July 2002), Executive Orders,
Directives and other documents impacting Homeland Security, please go to NSA's Homeland
Security Support Office homepage (or type "go homelandsecurity").
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid comms)."
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