DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS
TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL
(U) Gold Nugget Award Bestowed
FROM: SIGINT Communications
Unknown
Run Date: 03/09/2005
(U//FOUO)
, S2L1, Geospatial Exploitation, is the recipient of the Gold Nugget
Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Traffic Analysis.
(U//FOUO) Carl Johnson (l) presenting the Gold Nugget Award to
(TS//SI)
efforts have played a critical role in the identification and geolocation of
insurgents and terrorists worldwide. He is recognized as almost single-handedly advancing the
analytic state-of-the-art in the exploitation of the personal communications system, VOICESAIL,
which in the global war on terrorism is suggested to loom as large as ENIGMA or PURPLE did
during World War II.
(U//FOUO) Not only does he perform stellar traffic analysis,
also instructs at GEO
training sessions (BOOTCAMP) given to hundreds of deploying analysts, and maintains a website
making his unique analytic techniques and working aids available to a vast community of
analysts worldwide. (For full details of
accomplishments, go to the award write-up
).
(U//FOUO) Mr. Carl Johnson, Deputy Director for Analysis and Production (S2), presided over
the ceremony on 22 February 2005, and presented this honorary award to
. The
Gold Nugget, funded by the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) and administered by the
Associate Directorate for Education and Training's (ADET) Intelligence Analysis Skill Community,
is awarded annually to recognize technical excellence and significant contributions in technical
achievement, technical leadership, and contribution to corporate knowledge in the traffic
analysis component of the Intelligence Analysis (IA) skill field.
(U) Congratulations and thanks,
(U) Do you know of an analyst worthy of this recognition? If so, keep an eye out for an upcoming
announcement calling for Gold Nugget Award nominations. You don't want to miss the
opportunity.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS
TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL
DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108