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(U) Thoughts on the New Year
FROM: MG Richard J. Quirk, USA
SIGINT Director
Run Date: 01/05/2006
(U) Welcome back to those of you who managed to take some time off for the holidays - and I
hope that includes all of you! We face an exciting, challenging year ahead, one I truly look
forward to.
(U//FOUO) Over the last four years of this assignment, every day has been an exciting one, and
I never went home wondering whether I'd done something for the country. I hope you can say
the same. We continue to prosecute the Global War on Terrorism even as many other
obligations demand our attention, and ultimately the attention of our nation. There is never
enough time, never enough resources. The puzzles are impossibly complex... and that's why we
love it.
(U) As we embark on 2006, I thought I'd share with you my thoughts on the year ahead and the
goals I hope we can achieve. First and foremost comes the prosecution of our mission - and this
we will achieve, as we always have. I feel very comfortable about the high quality of our work.
(U//FOUO) In my "to-do" box, my hope for this year is that we continue on the path of
Transformation that we've followed for six years now, making just the right adjustments to the
visions laid out by our new Director, LTG Alexander. He is building on the successes of the past
and leading us to an even more capable future.
(S//SI) Specifically, for my part, there's a lot of unfinished business I hope we can close out
before I retire this summer:
I'd like to see us continue to develop into a net-centric enterprise, and to get the right
tools in place to make that a reality.
We must formalize our Governance processes so that more of us understand the roles we
play, and more of us are connected to the NSA Director's intent, as we decide what is
important on any given day.
I want to take the next step in unifying the US SIGINT System and the US Cryptologic
System by tying the military services even more closely to NSA. Steps being taken by the
Central Security Service at the corporate level -- whereby they'll become a truly viable
staff for military integration -- will help drive this along. SID's Global Cryptologic
Integration Center (GCIC), a forum in which SID and the military services will organize,
train and equip as a unified system, will also be a big factor.
My final goal is to continue to develop SIGINT leadership in the generations that follow
and continue to ensure a well-trained and diverse work force, both civilian and military.
(U) It has been an honor for me over the last four years to serve you and to serve with you, and
I greatly look forward to our time ahead together. God bless.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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