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(U//FOUO) Annual Joint Management Review Confirms Strength of
US-UK Relationship
FROM:
Country Desk Officer for the UK (DP15)
Run Date: 12/27/2006
(S//SI//REL) Counterterrorism, Computer Network Operations, and metadata policy top this
year's agenda.
(U//FOUO) From 3 - 5 October, DIRNSA and Director GCHQ co-chaired the annual NSA-GCHQ
Joint Management Review (JMR) at Chevening House. The meeting venue at Chevening is the
official country residence of the UK Foreign Secretary. It is set in 27 acres of gardens, within an
estate of 3,000 acres, located 23 miles south of London in the Kent countryside, and dates back
to 1630. Former UK Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, visited Chevening during the JMR and spoke
briefly with some of the JMR participants.
(U) View of the Chevening House formal gardens with palm trees.
(U//FOUO) The JMR can be considered the top-level annual strategic planning event between
NSA and GCHQ, and is complemented by a broad range of detailed UKUSA planning conferences
conducted by various mission and support staffs throughout the year. The JMR traditionally
opens with the Directors of GCHQ and NSA each offering an overview of their respective
strategic landscapes followed by 1 & 1/2 days of focused meetings on select strategic UKUSA
issues.
(U) Meeting venue in Chevening House library.
(S//SI//REL) This year seventeen senior leaders from across NSA and GCHQ participated -including DIRNSA and Director GCHQ, the mission directors for SIGINT and IA, senior general
counsels, and senior technology/capability providers. The conference focused on three main
areas: Counterterrorism, Computer Network Operations, and Metadata policy.
(C//REL) The JMR results can be characterized as broad agreement that the relationship remains
strong across SIGINT, IA, and enabling/support functions, and a need to focus efforts to
increase collaboration among SIGINT, HUMINT and Law Enforcement partners.
(U//FOUO) This article is reprinted from the Foreign Affairs Digest , November edition.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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