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Date: 1999-12-15
Die NSA wird modernisiert-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- technologisch angeblich von der modernen Zeit überrollt worden ist. Besonders zu Herzen gehend: die Aussagen eines anonymen NSA-Spooks. post/scrypt: Das Thränen/fläschchen, bitte! -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- The National Security Agency, the U.S. spy outfit that eavesdrops on conversations overseas to monitor threats, is trying to shake its image of falling behind in the new high- tech information age. At the same time the ultra-secret NSA, initials which some jokingly have suggested stand for "No Such Agency," is taking a look at how to carry out its mission in the post-Cold War era. NSA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden on Nov. 15 declared "100 days of change" for the agency that uses spy satellites, listening posts and other methods to collect foreign signals intelligence. .. But nearly a decade after the Soviet Union collapsed, the NSA, like its intelligence sibling the CIA, finds itself needing to adapt to a new world order in which the one main U.S. adversary is gone and has been replaced by a variety of "rogue" states and terrorist groups. ... "We're trying to hold ourselves up to the light and look at what it is we do in a very objective way, and decide which of the habits that have gotten us here ... are still useful for now and for the future, and which need to be adjusted," Hayden said in an interview at NSA headquarters. ... Lawmakers have been pushing the NSA to modernise. The NSA received a more than 10 percent budget increase in fiscal year 1999 over 1998, and another smaller rise in fiscal 2000 which started Oct. 1, a U.S. official said. The actual budget amount is classified. CIA Director George Tenet who oversees U.S. intelligence operations, was expected to ask for more money for NSA in next year's budget, an intelligence official said. .. Hayden "knows what's expected and we are awaiting a very comprehensive plan from him on how he is going to deal with the twin problems he has -- how to service today's needs and how to do the research and development for tomorrow's needs," House of Representatives Intelligence Committee chief Porter Goss said. "It's an old ship and it's a different sea. We need a new design, and on the other hand we've still got a little sailing to do in the old sea," the Florida Republican said. It used to be that U.S. spy agencies would use a particular method to collect a certain type of communication, but "today you have no idea where that information is being routed," an intelligence official said. "You may have somebody talking on a telephone over a land line and the other person talking to them on a cell phone over a satellite," the official, on condition of anonymity, said. "You don't know how it's being routed, it's going through all kinds of switches, the information is not where you think it is, and that's what has created the complexity and that's what we have to figure out how to deal with," the official said ... One criticism of NSA is an entrenched workforce that needs more of the young computer wizards that have taken Silicon Valley by storm. The average civilian age at NSA is 43. In the current fiscal year, NSA plans to triple or quadruple the amount of hiring done the prior year, with a priority on linguists, intelligence analysts and computer experts. The number of employees at NSA is classified. "They have a problem, technology has leapfrogged over them, and some of them are trying to figure out how to deal with that," said Mark Lowenthal, senior principal at consulting firm SRA International Inc., and a former House Intelligence Committee staff director. ... Source Reuters -.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1999-12-15 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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