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(S//REL) TechSIGINT Watch Desks Renamed
FROM: multiple authors at NSA/CSS Colorado
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Run Date: 08/04/2006
(S//REL) Watch desks in NSOC and Denver now share the TSSC name.
(S//REL) In April 2006, SID today announced the stand up of a new NSOC desk, the TechSIGINT
Senior Coordinator (TSSC) (see that article ). At that time, the TSSC desk joined the already
existing NSA/CSS Colorado TechSIGINT Operations Support (CTOPS) watch desk to form a joint
team that executes the multi-disciplined TechSIGINT mission:
PROFORMA,
Foreign Instrument Signals Intelligence (FISINT),
Specific Emitter Identification (SEI),
ELINT (technical and operational- maritime, land and air) and
RF Communications Externals (COMEXT). Primary goals for this joint watch team include:
Improved synchronization of the Global TechSIGINT Enterprise (GTSE),
Better connections between NSA Colorado (NSAC) and NSOC,
Immediate and focused TechSIGINT customer support, and
Built-in continuity of operations.
(S//REL) In recognition that CTOPS and TSSC are in fact a single team -- two sides of the same
coin -- effective 30 June 2006, the desks respectively have been renamed TSSC-Colorado
and TSSC-NSOC.
(S//REL) While some duties are interchangeable...
TSSC-Colorado tends to focus on operational support to military customers and
has the additional duty of representing NSA Colorado (NSAC) 24/7;
TSSC-NSOC tends to support our national customers, is NSAC's TechSIGINT
representative in NSOC and serves as NSOC's liaison to the Defense Special
Missile and Aerospace Center (DEFSMAC).
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108