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(U//FOUO) Assigning USSS Resources
FROM: SIGINT Communications
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Run Date: 02/16/2006
(U//FOUO) In an earlier SID today article (part 5 in this series) ,
SERIES:
you read that the Governance Apportionment Decision identifies
(U) Governance Topic-ofthe percentage of U.S. SIGINT system (USSS) resources dedicated
the-Day
to exploiting given target sets. The Allocation of Resources
reflects the Apportionment Decision and answers the question:
"How do we dole out our resources?"
1. Bringing Governance
to the USSS
(U//FOUO) The Governance approach to managing the USSS
2. Inquiring Minds ...
acknowledges the need to more smartly divvy up SIGINT resources
What Does
-- money, people, and equipment. Why devote 20 language
Governance Mean?
analysts to a target that the Intelligence Community hasn't
3. Mission Discernment
expressed an interest in for many years, just because the
- What's Tops on Our
collection system is generating traffic? Let's focus their time on
List?
developing a target that our partners ARE interested in, and later,
4. Mission Assessment reevaluate that developed target, and refocus again if necessary.
Rating Our
Performance
(C) The SIGINT Director has delegated responsibility for the
5. Apportionment of
Allocation of Resources to the Deputy Directors of S1 (Customer
Strategic Efforts -Relationships), S2 (Analysis and Production), and S3 (Data
Our Plan of Attack
Acquisition). Using the newest collaboration tool, a Wiki*, the
6. Assigning USSS
Deputy Directors, Site Commanders, Cryptologic Center Chiefs,
Resources
and Issue Management Teams (IMTs) exchange ideas related to
mission gaps and collectively develop action plans that will support
the Resource Allocation (budget build) process. The action plans
that have been developed thus far are included in the United
States SIGINT System (USSS) Strategic Missions Directive (USMD)
and the USSS Strategic Missions Annexes (USMA) document,
available on the IMT homepage ("go imt").
(U//FOUO) *Note: A Wiki is an advanced web collaboration tool
that presents NSA with a new way of sharing information. For
information on Wikis, see the SIDtoday article MG Quirk's WIKI
Walk-Through .
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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