2005/03/13: NSA Archive: Transition 2001 re****t
This do***ent, prepared for the incoming administration of George W. Bush,
was intended to
provide a background on NSA's organization and mission, as well as of the
issues facing NSA
in the years ahead. Its main sections include those devoted to management,
external process,
budget, and personnel, policy/issues.
In the discussion of major policy issues, the do***ent notes the changing
environment in which
the "analog world of point-to-point communications carried along discrete,
dedicated voice
channels" is being replaced by communications that are "mostly digital,
carry billions of bits of
data, and contain voice, data and multimedia." In addition, it states that
"global networks leave
US critical information infrastructure more vulnerable to foreign
intelligence operations and to
compromise by a host of non-state entities." The creation of global
networks also requires,
according to the transition book, that "senior leader****p understand that
today's and
tomorrow's mission will demand a powerful, permanent presence on a global
telecommunications network that will host the 'protected' communications
of Americans as well
as targeted communications of adversaries."
[...]
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB24/index.htm>
<regards>
-het
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