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(U) 'Econ Day' - How It Went
FROM: Carolyn Crooks
Customer Account Management (S112)
Run Date: 04/14/2004
FROM: Carolyn Crooks
Customer Account Management (S112)
(C) Despite bad weather, traffic snarls, road construction, detours, and a complicated visitor
process, they came! Well over 100 external guests gathered here at NSA on Friday, 2 April
2004, for Global Economic Security Day. As part of SID's Customer Engagement Program, a new
strategy called "Customer Days" has been implemented. "Econ Day" is the second in the series,
following behind the highly successful "Law Enforcement, Intelligence Community, Homeland
Security Day" in December 2003. Nearly 200 SID managers and analysts also participated in the
morning and afternoon sessions, bringing the Friedman Auditorium to near capacity.
(C) Ambassadors, Under and Assistant Secretaries, Directors, managers at every level, and
analysts from varied disciplines -- from State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture, Energy,
Transportation, the National Security Council, Executive Office of the President, Federal Reserve,
Export-Import Bank, CIA, DIA, NGA, JWAC, FAA, FCC, EPA -- attended the event. Hosted by the
SIGINT Directorate's Customer Relationships Directorate, this event was the first interagency
forum bringing together policy makers, intelligence managers, and analysts from across the U.S.
Economic and Intelligence Communities in a secure setting to exchange information and to
promote understanding and networking opportunities.
(U//FOUO) The Friedman Auditorium was filled for the morning plenary session. Alan Larson,
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, gave the Keynote
Address, speaking on the "Importance of Economics in the Geopolitical Context - the Nexus of
Economic Policy and Foreign Policy." Other plenary presentations included the "Role of
Intelligence to further US Policy" and the "NSA Perspective: the Evolution of NSA reporting in the
Post 9/11 Period and the Impact on Economic Intelligence." The morning culminated with a
distinguished panel of representative economic clients who described their information needs
and the value of SIGINT to their respective missions with representation by the appropriate
Senior Executive Account Managers.
(C ) The afternoon featured 11 breakout sessions in conference rooms booked to capacity with a
cross section of participants - from Under Secretaries to analysts - from across the Community.
These sessions offered wide-ranging economic discussions on regional issues such as trends in
East Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America as well as on topical issues such as information
technology dependency, threats to economic security, terrorism finance, sanctions, infectious
diseases, trade, energy, and the complexities of assessing economic information. Participants
have already begun to plan follow on activities to develop contacts made at the sessions and for
further networking.
(U//FOUO) The conference was planned and presented by the SID Customer Gateway and the
Strategic Intelligence Issues Office, but it couldn't have happened without the support and
assistance of scores of people across SID, NSA, and from partner agencies.
(U) Thanks are in order -- to all those who helped and especially to the participants whose
presence made the event a success.
(U//FOUO) For further information on the agenda and speakers, type "go Econ". A summary of
the conference will be published and appear on this web page at a later date.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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