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(U//FOUO) Video to Your Desktop
FROM:
Chief, Time Sensitive Information Support Branch (S21A3)
Run Date: 01/19/2005
News reports on target countries are available at your desktop (U//FOUO)
(U//FOUO) Advanced Intelligence Research Services (AIRS), NSA's agent for non-SIGINT
information acquisitions and management, brings a new capability to you -- video at your
desktop! If a picture is worth a thousand words, then one that moves could be worth a million!
Every day more and more information is being provided solely in video -- the likelihood of this
video containing information to confirm, clarify, or enhance the SIGINT fact is clearly too great
to ignore.
(U//FOUO) Although AIRS' Time Sensitive Information Support Branch (TSIS) initially developed
this capability to support NSOC, we realized it would also be valuable to Product Line analysts as
well as other Agency customers. Video provides up-to-date news on target countries and
subjects. It can be used in voice identification as well as to provide tip-offs to SIGINT indications
about events. In addition, foreign language video news broadcasts can be used by linguists,
enabling them to stay proficient in their foreign language and stay abreast of news airing in the
foreign country.
(U//FOUO) So how do you get this resource into your arsenal? The TSIS publishes a daily Video
News Summary (VNS) which describes the most recent news segments on our website. These
descriptions are linked with the video footage so that you can view the actual video at your
desktop. To get started go to:
("go video-news"). Click on the date you
would like to see, then select the news story of interest by clicking on the VNS Segment
number.
(U//FOUO) Although TSIS resides in SID as part of Analysis and Production, our charter is
corporate and we serve not only SID, but also the entire Agency. We provide video to the Office
of Public Affairs, the NSOC Senior Operations Officer, and the SID Cryptologic Insecurities team
whenever NSA or any reference to cryptologic information disclosures is mentioned in the news.
Information from these videos is then used to brief the Director and Agency Seniors. The
Information Assurance Directorate, the Research and Development Directorate, the National
Cryptologic School, and Security are also some of our major users.
(U//FOUO) You can reach us by phone at
s, via email to vidhelp@nsa, online at
or visit us in OPS 1, Room 3E060-B.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108