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Brown Bag: Persona Session Collection

SUMMARY

Credit will be earned for attending a top-secret discussion of strategies and tools for discovery and collection of the communications of important targets. 

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Oct 13, 2005

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Mar 01, 2018

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DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (S//SI) Brown Bag: Persona Session Collection FROM: SIGINT Development Strategy and Governance (SSG) Run Date: 10/13/2005 What : Brown Bag Session with two separate sessions) Target Analysis Center Technical Lead (offered in Topic : Persona Session Collection When : Wednesday, 26 October 2005 Session #1 1100-1200 (CRSK 1500, Class 8173) Session #2 1230-1330 (CRSK 1500, Class 8174) Where : TAC Conference Room, 2B3104 (U//FOUO) SIGINT Development Strategy and Governance (SSG) is pleased to announce another brown bag discussion focused on SIGINT Development topics of interest. We believe these sessions will be of interest to those who are working in SIGINT Development, or who are interested in learning more about NSA's SIGINT Development activities. Advance Registration is required; see instructions below. (C//SI) The discovery and collection of all of an important target's communications require the deployment of a strategy through which strong selectors applied against metadata-rich technologies and accesses are used to tip off other technologies and accesses. Metadata analysis will yield target discovery and new more powerful strong selectors. Critical components of this distributed collection approach include identifying a particular target's communications, tipping between accesses, associating many aggregate session parts, and presenting all of a target's communications to the analyst via a single workstation and viewer. (C//SI) After an overview and status of PSC, the discussion will focus on PSC challenges. The overview will outline how PSC integrates with other SSG initiatives such as the implementation of SID's Metadata Strategy (CONDENSER), the Master Association Manager (MAM), the Unified Targeting Tool (UTT), and GLOBALVISION. Additionally, relationships to external programs such as CT Production, the Persona Pod (#38), TURBULANCE, TRAFFICTHIEF, WEALTHYCLUSTER 2.0, X-KEYSCORE, UIS, and content repositories will also be addressed. (U) To register for one of these sessions , Military and Civilian employees can call or send an e-mail to the "mpgteam" alias. You will need to mention that this is a CRSK 1500 course, noting the date and time of the class you prefer (i.e. 26 October, Session 1, 11001200). You will also need to provide your social security number. (U//FOUO) If you are a Contractor, please contact or at In order to attend these sessions, you must have approval from your COR. NOTE: (U) You will receive NCS course credit for attending these brown bag sessions. Please be sure to "sign-in" on the day of the event, so we can note your attendance and ensure you receive credit. If you sign-up for one of these sessions and do not attend, you will not be permitted to enroll in future sessions per NCS regulations. (U) This brown bag session is classified TOP SECRET//COMINT//X1. This session will be videotaped for future posting on the SIGDEV learning portal.
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