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(S//SI) Next for the Iraqi SIGINTers: Field Sites
FROM:
FAD/QRC - Partner Integration (DP312)
Run Date: 09/14/2005
(S//SI) With the help of NSA, Iraqi SIGINTers are branching out beyond Baghdad.
(S//SI) Phase I of Project POOLLID consisted of rebuilding the capabilities of the Iraqi SIGINT
Element's (ISE) Headquarters as a legitimate intelligence organization. The Foreign Affairs
Directorate's (FAD's) efforts to complete Phase I have been very successful, and we are now at a
point at which Phase II, which consists of expanding the ISE to incorporate field sites that are
not in the immediate Baghdad area, can begin.
(S//SI) FAD team members stationed in Iraq are conducting site surveys to evaluate each
prospective field site. The team members are ensuring that the sites have good signals
coverage, enough personnel for staffing, and most importantly, high security. Phase II has been
in the planning stages for quite some time, but the security issues in Iraq have held up any
forward motion on the project. Despite what it looks like from the constant media coverage of
suicide bombers blowing up sites around Iraq, the country is slowly becoming safer, so FAD was
able to begin Phase II.
(S//SI) Phase II will start out small and gradually increase in both size and effort. The first few
field sites will use basic AOR and WINRADIO single channel receivers. Once the Iraqis prove that
the sites are secure and worthwhile, FAD will begin to install better SIGINT equipment to
improve each site's capabilities.
(S//SI) Even though Phase II has begun, Phase I has not ended. A team consisting of FAD, ETC ,
and ONEROOF members is scheduled to install new equipment into the ISE's Headquarters in
August. Because of the increasing volume of High Powered Cordless Phone calls that the ISE has
been collecting, more ONEROOF and DRT (Digital Receiver Technology) systems are needed. In
the end, we are confident that the ISE can continue to make a positive difference as Iraq's
democratic processes take hold.
(S//SI) Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) Headquarters Building, home to the Iraqi
SIGINT Element (ISE)
(U//FOUO) This article is reprinted from the Foreign Affairs Digest, August edition. (Originally
titled "Project POOLLID, Phase II: The Beginning"). The photo is from the SIDtoday article "The
Trip in Photos" .
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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