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(U//FOUO) Alaska Mission Operations Center (AMOC) Now Under S2
Governance
FROM:
Director, Enterprise Governance, Data Acquisition (S3)
Run Date: 01/13/2006
(U//FOUO) The AMOC now falls under the authority of SID's Analysis and Production (S2) rather
than Data Acquisition (S3).
(U//FOUO) In December 2005 the SIGINT Director signed off on a proposal to transfer the
Alaska Mission Operations Center (AMOC) from S3 to S2 governance. AMOC had been under S3
governance since April 2004 (when SID developed its governance models under NSA/CSS Policy
1-3 ), having been assessed as primarily a collection site.
(S//SI) Over the last year, S2 and S3 leadership recognized that the site would probably be
more appropriately aligned with S2. There were some contributing factors indicating that the
Center had an analysis and production focus, with collection as a supporting activity:
The Russian Air Analysis & Reporting (A&R) mission is planned to transfer from NSA/CSS
Texas to AMOC as part of mission alignment;
Similarly, the Russian Strategic Air A&R mission is planned to transfer from RAF Digby to
AMOC;
There was increased recognition that AMOC uses not only on-site but worldwide collection
resources to carry out its A&R mission, much like the Cryptologic Centers; and
A skills accounting revealed that a majority of the personnel at site are analyst/reporters
rather than collectors.
(S//SI) Under the new S2 governance of AMOC, the commander is a member of the Analysis
and Production Senior Leadership Team (SLT), which meets weekly with the Enterprise via VTC.
The AMOC will also become a Production Center for Russian Air Defense, and could later be
considered for future missions as well. S3 will continue to work with the site and S2 on
requirements to support the Russian Air mission transfer, as well as accepting requirements for
collection and processing services from AMOC, which will be considered and filled in line with S3
worldwide priorities.
(U//FOUO) For further information on Governance issues, visit the S3 Enterprise Governance
web site or contact
, S3 Data Acquisition Enterprise Governance, or Donna
Barbano, S2 Analysis & Production Enterprise Governance.
(U//FOUO) View of Anchorage, home to Elmendorf Air Force Base (and the AMOC).
(U) In November 2004, we posted posted an article describing life in Alaska: "Dropping Anchor
in Anchorage" .
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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