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National Security Agency

National Security Operations Center (NSOC)

• is the NSA's current operations center and focal point for time-sensitive SIGINT reporting for the United States SIGINT System (USSS). This center was established in 1968 as the National SIGINT Watch Center (NSWC) and renamed into National SIGINT Operations Center (NSOC) in 1973. This "nerve center of the NSA" got its current name in 1996.[84]

NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC)

• is the primary NSA/CSS partner for Department of Homeland Security response to cyber incidents. The NTOC establishes real-time network awareness and threat characterization capabilities to forecast, alert, and attribute malicious activity and enable the coordination of Computer Network Operations. The NTOC was established in 2004 as a joint Information Assurance and Signals Intelligence project.[85]

F Digital Warfare Directorate (?)

G Image Intelligence Directorate

I Information Assurance Directorate

J Cryptologic Directorate

L Installation and Logistics

M Human Resources

Q Security and Counter Intelligence

R Research Directorate

S Signals Intelligence Directorate

S1 Customer Relations

S2 Analysis and Production Centers

S2A South Asia

S2B China and Korea

S2C International Security

S2E Middle East/Asia

S2F International Crime

S2G Counter-proliferation

S2H Russia

S2I Counter-terrorism

S2J Weapons and Space

S2T Current Threats

S3 Data Acquisition

S31 Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services (CES)

S32 - Tailored Access Operations (TAO)

• hacks into foreign computers to conduct cyber-espionage and reportedly is "the largest and arguably the most important component of the NSA's huge Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) Directorate, consisting of over 1,000 military and civilian computer hackers, intelligence analysts, targeting specialists, computer hardware and software designers, and electrical engineers."[78]

S33 Global Access Operations (GAO)

• is responsible for intercepts from satellites and other international SIGINT platforms.[79] A tool which details and maps the information collected by this unit is code-named Boundless Informant.

S34 Collections Strategies and Requirements Center

S35 Special Source Operations (SSO)

• is responsible for domestic and compartmented collection programs, like for example the PRISM program.[79] Special Source Operations is also mentioned in connection to the FAIRVIEW collection program.[80]

T Technical Directorate

Directorate for Education and Training

Directorate for Corporate Leadership

Foreign Affairs Directorate

• acts as liaison with foreign intelligence services, counter-intelligence centers and the UKUSA-partners.

Acquisitions and Procurement Directorate