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(U) SIGINT Technical Leader Named
FROM: MG Richard J. Quirk, USA
Signals Intelligence Director
Run Date: 10/06/2003
(U) You've heard me talk about the importance of our capabilities-based SIGINT system.
Organized by function across the SID directorate, it has proven to be exceedingly agile and well
suited to our new, more global missions. But, like any organizational structure it comes at a
cost. Our ability to focus on our key threats, current and future, cuts across all of our
organizational boundaries.
(U) This challenges each of us to know and understand every last one of our missions and
priorities with sufficient detail such that we can make the best decisions about how we should
apply our capabilities. Even on our best days, this is exceptionally difficult to do. To help sort
through the competing needs, we've added Issue Manager Teams (IMT). Each IMT owns a
mission area and has the responsibility of helping us all understand SIGINT's role in that area.
An IMT is aware of where our strengths are and what we need to focus on in a mission area. The
outcome of this effort has been very rewarding.
(U) It is the tremendous success of our IMT concept that has led me to establish the position of
SIGINT Technical Leader (TL). The SIGINT TL will identify and champion the overarching mission
outcomes that will drive our continuing transformation of SIGINT. To accomplish this the SIGINT
TL will work with the other members of the SID Leadership Team including the DDs and staff,
the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), senior technical leaders, and others, both inside and outside
SID and NSA, to help translate mission opportunities and outcomes into new ways to make and
use SIGINT. I am pleased to announce that Dave Hurry has joined my staff as the first
SIGINT Technical Leader .
(U) Functionally, the SIGINT TL and the SID CTO will form a small team working for me to find
and improve the key drivers that make SIGINT better. Notionally, the SIGINT TL will look
externally and internally for new opportunities and challenges for SIGINT, and the CTO will find
the technologies and new technical approaches to solve them. While this type of innovation has
already been going on across SID and our partner organizations, the SIGINT TL and CTO will be
able to bring an added focus and focal point to these efforts.
(U) Needless to say, this technical team will be looking to you for ideas and areas to emphasize.
SIGINT has a virtually unlimited number of opportunities and challenges before it. Knowing
which ones to pursue and when to pursue them will be key in making rapid progress towards
our goals. The SIGINT Technical Leader will be a key player in the process to make this happen.
Please join me in welcoming and supporting Dave in this new position.
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