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Parent topics
- United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: The military forces of the United States and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Signals intelligence [r]: the practice of acquiring information through monitoring the electromagnetic signals deliberately trasmitted by an opponent, including communications (COMINT) and non-communications electronics such as radar (ELINT). [e]
- Information Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Director of National Intelligence [r]: The professional head of the United States Intelligence Community, reporting to the President, with Dennis Blair being replaced by James Clapper [e]
Subtopics
People
- Director, National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Friedman [r]: Possibly the greatest cryptologist in history, he pioneered the application of mathematics to cryptanalysis and built the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service technical base. [e]
Cryptographic systems
- Advanced Encryption Standard [r]: A US government standard issued in 2002 for a stronger block cipher to succeed the earlier Data Encryption Standard. [e]
- KG-13 [r]: A 1960s-vintage bulk encryption device, a key generator designed by the National Security Agency, for low-speed data streams; codenamed PONTUS [e]
- KIV-7 [r]: A National Security Agency link and packet encryption device for two 100 Mbps serial interfaces [e]
- SKIPJACK [r]: Add brief definition or description
- FASTLANE [r]: A family of U.S. National Security Agency approved encryption devices for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) transmission systems [e]
- TACLANE [r]: A family, designated TSEC/KG-175, of bulk encryption devices specified by the National Security Agency, which work with high-speed IEEE 802.3/Ethernet interfaces [e]
Communications
- JWICS [r]: A military and intelligence communications system approved for classified information designated collateral TOP SECRET, as well as any information in a compartmented control system such as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Access Program (SAP) [e]
- TROJAN SPIRIT [r]: A U.S. military communications system for handling the most highly classified intelligence information in field headquarters, which also provides field units with connectivity to worldwide high-security networks [e]
Operations
- National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: U.S. signals intelligence and communications security activity prior to major ground commitments [e]
- AN- [r]: U.S. military nomenclature for electronic equipment, following the Joint Electronics Type Designation System [e]
- C.A. Ruppersberger [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Maryland); Appropriations Committee: Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Homeland Security, Legislative Branch; House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Chairman,Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence (National Security Agency is in his district), Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations [e]
- Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. [e]
- Compartmented control system [r]: A set of controls, in addition to a regular national security classifications, that adds additional security restrictions to especially sensitive information [e]
- Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR [e]
- Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Communications Security Establishment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Government Communications Headquarters [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Government Communications Security Bureau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Information operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence collection management [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Reconnaissance Office [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operations security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Signals intelligence from 1990 to the present [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Traffic analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Warrantless surveillance [r]: Add brief definition or description