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Inquiring Minds … What Does Governance Mean?

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Governance is management, according to the Signals Intelligence Communications team. A new framework from senior leadership has four governance tasks and 17 subordinate responsibilities. Task #4 is “support the development of Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities and operations.”

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Dec 07, 2005

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DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Inquiring Minds ... What Does Governance Mean? FROM: SIGINT Communications Unknown Run Date: 12/07/2005 (U//FOUO) If you work in SID, you've no doubt heard the term SERIES: "Governance" being bandied about for a while now... What are (U) Governance Topic-ofthese people talking about? Allow SID today to offer an the-Day explanation. Simply said, Governance is management. In the world of SIGINT, Governance refers to: 1. Bringing Governance Synchronizing and optimizing the US SIGINT System to the USSS (USSS); 2. Inquiring Minds ... Empowerment and accountability at the lowest possible What Does levels; and Governance Mean? Conveying DIRNSA's intent by focusing on mission, 3. Mission Discernment partnering, horizontal integration, intelligence community - What's Tops on Our sharing. List? 4. Mission Assessment (U//FOUO) SID's Senior Leadership has been crafting a Rating Our Governance framework for about 18 months now. The processes Performance established in the Governance framework will ensure that SIGINT5. Apportionment of ers at all levels understand their particular SIGINT missions as well Strategic Efforts -as their roles in accomplishing those missions. Making these Our Plan of Attack Governance processes a routine practice is paramount and training 6. Assigning USSS on how to do so has already begun.** Resources (U//FOUO) Governance entails many processes and concepts that will, in and of themselves, merit definition. Look for these terms in SID today between now and the end of December. To get the ball rolling with our "Governance Topic-of-the-Day" series, we'll define the concept of Governance itself: (U//FOUO) The goal of Governance, in the SIGINT context, is to ensure that the various parts of the USSS are working well together and thus create a synchronized USSS. Governance will set the stage for a connection that reaches from national leadership all the way to NSA's newest hires. Within the Governance framework, statements of high-level intent will be provided to all USSS elements in order to guide lower-level decision-making as we carry out SIGINT and CNO. (U) So, how are we going to do this? (U//FOUO) To accomplish this, SID Senior Leadership has outlined four Governance tasks and 17 subordinate responsibilities for the USSS. A brief description of those tasks follows: Task #1 - Provide SIGINT to the Nation ; Task #2 - Direct the USSS in its SIGINT Production ; Task #3 - Prepare the USSS to provide dominant SIGINT in the future ; Task #4 - Support the development of Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities and operations . (U//FOUO) Governance of the USSS is part of a larger NSA/CSSwide effort, which is spelled out in NSA/CSS Policy 1-3 . This policy
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states that, "NSA/CSS is a global enterprise and shall be managed as a single organization," the US Cryptologic System (USCS). The Governance tasks listed above outline the SIGINT portion of this larger effort. (U) To find out more, go to the SID homepage . Look under the "Gearing up for Governance" section; you will find briefing slides with supporting notes and documentation. (U) Stay tuned to our "Topic-of-the-Day" series for more terms associated with Governance....... ** See SID today article (U//FOUO) "Bringing Governance to the USSS" for more information on training. "(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