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 Encyclopedia: National Security Agency
Headquarters for the National Security Agency is at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, approximately ten miles (16 km) northeast of Washington, DC.
The AFSA was to be responsible for directing the communications and electronic intelligence activities of the military intelligence units - the Army Security Agency, Naval Security Group and the Air Force Security Service.
Its secure government communications brief has involved NSA in production of communications hardware and software, in the production of semiconductors (there is a chip fabrication plant at Ft. Meade), in cryptography research, and contracting with private industry for items, equipment, and research it is not itself prepared to develop or supply.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Security-Agency   (7344 words)

  
 Armed Forces Special Powers Act: A study in National Security tyranny (From the SAHRDC Resource Centre)
The AFSPA gives the armed forces wide powers to shoot, arrest and search, all in the name of "aiding civil power." It was first applied to the North Eastern states of Assam and Manipur and was amended in 1972 to extend to all the seven states in the north- eastern region of India.
The armed forces compelled people to leave their homes and dumped them on the roadside to set up new villages, so that the armed forces would be able to better control them.
Secondly, when the armed forces are tried in army courts, the public is not informed of the proceedings and the court martial judgments are not published.
www.hrdc.net /sahrdc/resources/armed_forces.htm   (11243 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Lithuania - National Security - Armed Forces Lithuanian Information Resource
The government, the minister of defense, and the chief of the armed forces are responsible to the Seimas for the management and leadership of the armed forces.
The chief of the Internal Security Agency insists that the agency--successor to some of the KGB's functions--has no security force, although he thinks that there ought to be a budget to establish a force to deal with criminal and subversive elements.
Total armed forces in 1994 numbered about 8,900, including a 4,300-member army, 350-member navy, 250-member air force, and 4,000-member border guard.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/lithuania/lithuania28.html   (1053 words)

  
 Developing mechanisms for Civilian Oversight over the Armed Forces - African Security Review Vol 7 No 5, 1998
The use of armed forces in internal situations, and the politics surrounding their deployment, should be understood against the background of the historical evolution of the armed forces in South Africa.
Additionally, it is assumed that the armed forces, to serve effectively, should divest themselves of political influence in order to serve the people of the society in all their political, cultural, religious and economic diversity.
The armed forces are only required to defend the constitutional order and the sovereignty of the state, which, put differently, means that they ought to defend the national interests of the state.
www.iss.co.za /Pubs/ASR/7No5/DevelopingMechanisims.html   (3901 words)

  
 Origins of the Army Security Agency and INSCOM
The SSA was reorganized as the Army Security Agency (ASA) at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, on 15 September 1945.
Since its mission was no longer exclusively identified with intelligence and security, ASA was withdrawn from G-2 control and resubordinated to the Army Chief of Staff as a field operating agency.
On 1 January 1977, Headquarters, U.S. Army Security agency, was redesignated as Headquarters, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
www.nsa.gov /vigilance/vigil00005.cfm   (3233 words)

  
 National Security Agency
The National Security Agency consists of a Director, a Headquarters, and such subordinate units, elements, facilities, and activities as are assigned to the National Security Agency by the Secretary of Defense as the executive agent of the Government for the conduct of SIGINT.
However the National Security Agency was only peripherally affected by the plan, under which the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence does not exercise the same degree of control, dir ection and authority over the National Security Agency as was instituted for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The National Security Agency is a unified organization structured to provide for the Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) mission of the United States and to insure secure communications systems for all departments and agencies of the US Government.
www.fas.org /irp/nsa/oldind.html   (11198 words)

  
 National Security Agency on Encyclopedia.com
The NSA includes the Central Security Service, established in 1972 to promote a full partnership between the NSA and the cryptological elements of the armed forces, and the National Cryptologic School.
The agency, which is headquartered in Fort Meade, Md., is the largest employer of mathematicians in the country.
American Red Cross and Homeland Security Co-Sponsor National Preparedness Month 2005.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NatlS1ecA1g.asp   (428 words)

  
 INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SURVEILLANCE AFFECTING AMERICANS
In effect, this meant that the Office of Security was a beneficiary of the vast communications intelligence apparatus of the entire Agency, a resource which is on an entirely different order of sophistication than the wiretapping capability of any police or security force in the nation.
These files were retained primarily as a reference source for security education purposes, as an aid to our personnel security process and to provide assessment regarding the vulnerability of this Agency to foreign intelligence activities and extremists activities which posed a threat to the NSA mission, functions and property.
The film, after exposure, will be delivered [to the office of a company vice-president], at which place an officer from the Signal Security Agency, in civilian clothes, will pick it up.
www.icdc.com /~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIj.htm   (18675 words)

  
 Reason: Spy Watch: Behind closed doors at the National Security Agency
The NSA was formally established on October 24, 1952, to replace the shaky and ineffective Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA).
Instead, the armed forces services collected Sigint separately, and even when the AFSA was set up to combine these efforts, the services maintained control over their specific code breaking and intercept activities.
Though the agency reports to the secretary of defense, it became early on a semi-sovereign entity.
www.reason.com /0203/cr.my.spy.shtml   (1852 words)

  
 Naval Security Group
A closer alliance with Army and Air Force Cryptologists was formalized in 1949 with the establishment of the Armed Forces Security Agency.
In 1952, the National Security Agency was created from the Armed Forces Security Agency, strengthening the bonds among service cryptologic elements.
In 1956, the Naval Security Group Headquarters Activity was established, retaining the name until 1961 when it was redesignated the Naval Security Group Headquarters under the Director, Naval Security Group who assumed the title at the same time.
www.usspueblo.org /v2f/background/nsg.html   (664 words)

  
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Britannia Security Group (UK) Ltd. was setup over 15 years ago with our Head Office based in the North West and regional offices within the Midlands and London areas, allowing us to provide an effective UK nationwide service.
Security roller shutters, security window shutters, security doors - Britannia Security.
We provide a wide range of physical security equipment and services to secure all types of businesses including Commercial, Industrial, Council, Health Authorities, Police and Blue Chip Companies.
www.britanniasecuritygroup.com   (148 words)

  
 Agnes Meyer Driscoll - Enpsychlopedia
Driscoll was part of the navy contingent that joined the new national cryptologic agencies, first the Armed Forces Security Agency in 1949 and then the National Security Agency in 1957.
Driscoll died in 1971 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Agnes_Meyer_Driscoll   (539 words)

  
 Ground Truth: National Security Agency, Fort Meade
Before that he was Director of NSA's predecessor, the Armed Forces Security Agency.
The overriding requirement in all cases is that the individual had made outstanding contributions or performed heroic actions which contributed materially to the Agency's mission.
Wray had served with NSA and its predecessor agencies since 1942 and was awarded the Exceptional Civilian Service Award posthumously.
www.fas.org /irp/facility/nsaftmed.htm   (678 words)

  
 The Memory Hole > "The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940-1952"
This study traces the evolution of the military structures from the early 1930s to the establishment of a unique agency to deal with COMINT [communications intelligence] - the National Security Agency - in 1952.
"The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940-1952"
These factors, which we recognize as still powerful and in large measure still shaping operational and institutional development, are the same ones that brought about the birth of the NSA.
www.thememoryhole.org /nsa/origins_of_nsa.htm   (302 words)

  
 Digital National Security Archive, Introductions
Intelligence agencies which are strictly DOD organizations are the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center and the Defense Mapping Agency.
In theory, the AFSA directed the communications and electronic intelligence activities of the military services signals intelligence units (the Army Security Agency, the Naval Security Group and the Air Force Security Service).
The creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 1961 was one manifestation of the trend toward centralization that began under the Eisenhower administration and reached its peak in the Kennedy administration.
nsarchive.chadwyck.com /ipessayx.htm   (6726 words)

  
 U.S. Department of Defense Official Website - 11/07/2005 - Edition 1
Miller is assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Communications Squadron and Hannah is assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2005 – The secure environment in which Iraqis voted on a constitutional referendum Oct. 15 increased Iraqis' confidence in their security forces, a top official said today.
Michael Miller and Sean Hannah perform the "overs" maneuver while practicing for the Base Honor Guard at Balad Air Base, Iraq.
www.defenselink.mil   (385 words)

  
 Riverbank Labs
When this agency was supplanted by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1952, Friedman became chief technical consultant, and two years later, special assistant to the director.
In 1956 Friedman was awarded $100,000 in compensation by the government for profits he had been unable to realize due to security measures for nine cipher machines he had invented for the government from 1933 to 1944.
The center tube was supposed to spin and by sympathetic vibration cause the strings on the outer tube to vibrate.
www.geneva.il.us /riverbnk/riverpag.htm   (4804 words)

  
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 Dr David Wood's PhD Thesis
INFOSEC - Information Systems Security - The protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing or transit, and against the denial of service to authorized users or the provision of service to unauthorized users, including those measures necessary to detect, document, and counter such threats.
This includes ensuring the security of U.S. cryptosystems, the preventing electronic emissions from various communications equipment, and the physically protecting communications security equipment.
OPSEC - Operations Security - The process of denying potential adversaries any information about capabilities and/or intentions by identifying, controlling and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities.
www.staff.ncl.ac.uk /d.f.j.wood/thesis_app1.htm   (1460 words)

  
 GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information
UK Genera, Iraq & Referendum Security AFPS 04 Nov 2005 -- The environment in which Iraqis voted on Oct. 15 increased their confidence in their security forces
Iraq Ops Update AFPS 04 Nov 2005 -- A soldier assigned to the 43rd MP Brigade was killed in action by an IED in the vicinity of Baqubah, Iraq, Nov. 3
EU, Rights Groups & Reports Of Secret CIA Prisons RFE/RL 04 Nov 2005 -- Tensions are rising over allegations the CIA set up secret jails in E Europe
www.globalsecurity.org   (748 words)

  
 U.S. Goverment Agency Acronyms
DCSOPS - DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR OPERATIONS AND PLANS (AIR FORCE)
ATIC - AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER (AIR FORCE)
DDO - DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (AIR FORCE)
www.unexplainable.net /articles/acronymns.html   (195 words)

  
 Sectra displays products for secure tele and data
Sectra has been cooperating closely with the Swedish Defence Matériel Administration (FMV) since the late 1980s in the new development of cryptographic equipment and currently accounts for about 85% of the advanced security systems procured by the Swedish Armed Forces.
MILINF 2000 is arranged jointly by the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Defence Matériel Administration (FMV), the Swedish Defence Research Establishment (FOA), Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning (ÖCB), the National Post and Telecom Agency and industry.
The Norwegian Armed Forces have ordered a new-generation of Tiger and a commercial version has been ordered by several companies in the private sector.
www.sectra.se /global/news/press_releases/security/2000-2001/2000-09-04.html   (575 words)

  
 Introduction
Swedish Armed Forces are in the midst of a major re-orientation from a structure based on an invasion threat to a structure of more compatible with the new era and the new security policy.
The task of the Swedish National Defence College is to contribute to national and international security through research and education.
Defence Gaming is an initiative from Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and Swedish National Defence College (FHS) to study, research and explore the conjunction of computer and video games world and the military.
www.defencegaming.org /introduction.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Security forces realign under air and space operations
However, the Air Force Security Forces Center, which also has the Force Protection Battlelab and the 820th Security Forces Group, changes to a field operating agency from a direct reporting unit.
Security forces is the physical arm of force protection, which includes many other specialties including, intelligence, logistics, medical and civil engineering.
Security forces and operations officials say the realignment allows for increased support of the force protection mission and enhance the expeditionary aerospace force concept.
www.fas.org /irp/news/1998/09/n19980929_981482.html   (258 words)

  
 UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - WHO WE ARE
NSA sponsors employees for bachelor and graduate studies at the Nation's top universities and colleges, and selected Agency employees attend the various war colleges of the U.S. Armed Forces.
NSA has been a premier information agency of the industrial age, and, through ongoing modernization and cutting edge research, will continue to be a premiere knowledge agency of the information age.
NSA was established by Presidential directive in 1952 to provide signals intelligence and communications security activities of the Government.
www.intelligence.gov /1-members_nsa.shtml   (930 words)

  
 ARMED FORCES JOURNAL
The organizational descendents of the militia forces hired by the Central Intelligence Agency and trained by SF troops in late 2001 and early 2002, the ASF function as the security force for the A-teams at their firebases and on some combat missions.
Their aim, the SF officers say, is to convince U.S. commanders and their political masters that the Taliban no longer poses a major threat to stability in Afghanistan and that it’s time to withdraw U.S. forces from the country.
Already, Special Forces officers have had to beat back a proposal to reduce the size of their contingent in Afghanistan, according to an Army officer.
www.armedforcesjournal.com /story.php?F=1404902_0206   (6325 words)

  
 National Security Agency. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The NSA includes the Central Security Service, established in 1972 to promote a full partnership between the NSA and the cryptological elements of the armed forces, and the National Cryptologic School.
The agency, which is headquartered in Fort Meade, Md., is the largest employer of mathematicians in the country.
For many years the NSA was the most hidden of U.S. intelligence agencies; its large budget was secret and its existence barely acknowledged.
www.bartleby.com /65/na/NatlSecAg.html   (194 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Defense Security Cooperation Agency
The agency said in a June 1 press release that the sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that has been and continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.
Major General Ali Baz gave a comprehensive presentation on the present and future defense equipment requirements of the Armed Forces of Pakistan being funded through the foreign military sale program of the United States.
"These radars will assist the recipient to identify and detect ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and air breathing target threats," the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement.
gov.surfwax.com /files/Defense_Security_Cooperation_Agency.html   (194 words)

  
 U.S. Department of Defense Official Website - 03/10/2006 - Final Edition
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2006 – The leaders of several grassroots organizations associated with the Pentagon's America Supports You program met today at the White House to discuss their efforts to support the men and women of the U.S. armed forces with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush.
Henry A. Obering III, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, said here yesterday before the House Armed Services Committee.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2006 – The proliferation of ballistic missile technology threatens the security of the United States, Air Force Lt. Gen.
www.defenselink.mil   (471 words)

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