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Top dog and CIO of the super secret NSA, Lonny Anderson, spoke with Federal News Radio about NSA's mission and how it will use the cloud and new crypto centers to modernize the shadowy eyes and ears responsible for global eavesdropping and America's national defense.
How could the super secret spook agency stockpile that much surveillance every day? Think along the lines of 75,000 men and women eavesdropping on the world by way of 12 satellites circling the globe, 50 aircraft modified to electronically eavesdrop, and every U.S. attack submarine having NSA intercept personnel onboard to make the most of electronic surveillance. According to author and historian Matthew Aid, "The USS Jimmy Carter submarine works exclusively for NSA tapping cables under the water." In an interview with 60 Minutes, Aid explained more about how the NSA electronically collects intelligence.
NSA's chief information officer (CIO) Lonny Anderson talked with Federal News Radio's Jason Miller about the NSA's mission, the three new state-of-the-art NSA cryptological centers in Hawaii, Georgia and Texas, as well as how efficiencies in IT with the cloud will help modernize the secretive intelligence agency.
NSA's massive 65 megawatt data center is on 240-acres at the National Guard facility in Camp Williams, Utah. The self sustaining complex will have 1 million square feet of enclosed space with 100,000 square feet of working computer space. It will have its own "water and wastewater treatment plants, power, gas supply, battery backup, visitor-control facilities, vehicle inspection station and perimeter security." It is supposed to be capable of storing staggering amounts of surveillance data, yottabytes of data . In case your mind does not automatically compute just how mega huge that is, CrunchGear described it as, "There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. Are you paranoid yet?"
Anderson said the Utah data center will support the Obama administration's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) as well as support the Intelligence Community (IC). It will have new tech and very efficient tech, designed with NSA's future needs in mind. It will be used to assist Homeland Security, but Anderson said the NSA only helps DHS when asked. The massive data center will help focus on cyber threats to make certain national security networks are protected. All intelligence will "feed" from the data center, meaning the data will be stored in that single data center which will help discover threats in a "near real-time environment."
Anderson wears two hats, CIO and tech director, but said NSA has a two-prong mission, two sides of the same coin. On one side is signal intelligence sources (SIGINT) which provide the military and policy makers with foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence to insure national defense and to advance global interest. On the Information Assurance (IA) side, NSA IA and network warfare professionals go to "great lengths" to insure protection of classified and sensitive information.
[Not always so recently, apparently, according to WiKiLEAKI…Not so much in the past either—SEE: ‘Code Name Catastrophe,’ by William Scott Malone and William Cran, Washington Post, 24 January 1989.]
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