Laboratory Information:
National Security Agency
9800 Savage Road
Suite 6541
Ft. Meade, MD 20755-6541
Website: http://www.nsa.gov/
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/index.shtml
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense
Region: Mid-Atlantic
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Ms. Marian Roche
Phone: 443-479-9569
Fax: 301-688-2930
Email: mtroche@nsa.gov
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The National
Security Agency/Central Security Service is America's
cryptologic organization. It coordinates, directs, and
performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S.
government information systems and produce foreign signals
intelligence information. A high technology organization, NSA
is on the frontiers of communications and data processing. It
is also one of the most important centers of foreign language
analysis and research within the government.
Mission of the Laboratory:
The ability to
understand the secret communications of our foreign
adversaries while protecting our own communications -- a
capability in which the United States leads the world --
gives our nation a unique advantage. Executive Order 12333,
dated 4 December 1981, describes the responsibility of the
National Security Agency and the Central Security Service
(NSA/CSS) in more detail. The resources of NSA/CSS are
organized for the accomplishment of two national missions:
The Information Assurance mission provides the solutions,
products, and services, and conducts defensive information
operations, to achieve information assurance for information
infrastructures critical to U.S. national security interests.
The foreign signals intelligence or SIGINT mission allows for
an effective, unified organization and control of all the
foreign signals collection and processing activities of the
United States. NSA is authorized to produce SIGINT in
accordance with objectives, requirements, and priorities
established by the Director of Central Intelligence with the
advice of the National Foreign Intelligence
Board.
Facilities:
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- High Performance Computing
- Information Operations/Defensive Information Operations
- Information Processing
- knowledge discovery
- Language Analysis and Translation
- Advanced Computing
- Advanced Mathematics
- Advanced Mathematics
- Biometrics (Security)
- Communications and Networking
- Computer Sciences
- computer system security
- Cryptanalysis
- Cyber Security/Information Assurance
- Electrical Engineering
- Facilities Maintenance and Rehab
- Graphics
- Microelectronics
- nanotechnologies
- networking technologies
- Physical sciences
- Research
- Secure Communications
- Signal processing
- Systems Engineering
- Technical and Non-Technical Training
- Telecommunications
