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	Government Communications Headquarters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GCHQ is the responsibility of the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
		The listening stations are at Cheltenham itself, GCHQ CSO Morwenstow, GCHQ CSO Ascension Island, with the Americans at Menwith Hill, and the Columbia Annex (CANX).
		GCHQ, in combination with the equivalent agencies in the United States(NSA), Canada (Communications Security Establishment) and Australia (Defence Signals Directorate) and otherwise known as the UKUSA group, is believed to be responsible for, among other things, the operation of the ECHELON system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GCHQ (734 words)

	gchq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GCHQ is the responsibility of the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary.
		GCHQ was established in 1946 as the successor to the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) which had been the government SIGINT organisation since 1919, running Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
		GCHQ is currently having a new 'doughnut' shaped HQ built in the second largest public sector building project in Europe with an estimated cost of just under £350 million.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /GCHQ.html (451 words)

	GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters - UK Intelligence Agencies
		GCHQ is a Civil Service Department under the Ministerial responsibility of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
		GCHQ provides Government Departments and Military Commands with signals intelligence (Sigint) in accordance with requirements laid upon it by the JIC (as for SIS) in support of HMG's security, defence, foreign and economic policies.
		GCHQ was established in 1946 as the post-War successor of the Government Code and Cipher School which had been the central Sigint organisation since 1919 and had made an outstanding contribution to the War effort at Bletchley Park, for example by decrypting German messages enciphered by the ENIGMA machine.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/uk/gchq (604 words)

	GCHQ
		A GCHQ spokesman said: 'Previous estimates of the cost, risk and timescale of a move were based on a feasability study conducted three-and-a-half years ago.
		The report also reveals that staff are to face rigirous mental health checks to prevent repeats of the embarrassing episode in which a drunken M16 agent left his laptop in the back of a cab.
		GCHQ announced in 1998 it was going to combine its two bases at Benhall and Oakley into a single office.
	www.ufos-aliens.co.uk /cosmicgchq.html (835 words)

	GCHQ wrong-footed by pace of IT change - ZDNet UK News
		GCHQ director Dr David Pepper told MPs on Monday that the cost of upgrading the agency's computer system had soared because those responsible didn't grasp the complexity of what was needed.
		GCHQ's new base in Cheltenham cost a total of £1.2bn, and plans for the move were first drawn up in the mid-1990s when the concept of intranets was not widely understood.
		GCHQ has acknowledged that the situation should have been better understood when the plans were first drawn up, but insists that the computer system that was eventually built is much better than the one in place before the move.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /business/management/0,39020654,39118261,00.htm (485 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - A1078355
		Although GCHQ had moved back to London, it was in temporary lodgings; it was decided that a long-term home would be needed for GCHQ away from London, so it didn't have to keep moving at times of war.
		GCHQ is still based in Cheltenham today, and continues in the same role as before, which can be broken in to two main areas.
		GCHQ is about to move again; it is staying in Cheltenham but is moving in to a purpose-built site on the original Benhall site.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1078355 (1756 words)

	Gensler: Press Room
		The new GCHQ has benefited from the maintenance and sustainability obligations imposed by the UK's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) regulations, a program that encourages private investment in major public building projects.
		The new GCHQ is believed to be the largest PFI project of its kind in Europe and, despite its complexity, was delivered three months ahead of schedule.
		Staff from GCHQ began moving into the new accommodation in early September 2003, and it will be fully occupied by early summer 2004.
	www.gensler.com /news/2004/03-25_gchq.htm (920 words)

	GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters - UK Intelligence Agencies
		In 1953, GCHQ moved to two sites on the outskirts of Cheltenham, where it continues to be based.
		GCHQ's annual budget is in the neighborhood of £400M-£500M.
		To reach GCHQ from M5 Junction 11 (northbound) motorway exit one takes the third exit off the roundabout signposted Cheltenham A40 to the third exit at the next roundabout staying on for A40.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/uk/gchq.htm (807 words)

	Design Build Network - Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham
		At a build cost of £337 million, a new innovative, environmentally sustainable 1,100,000ft² facility was completed early in 2004 and was officially opened by the Queen at the end of March 2004.
		IAS not only provided the GCHQ with the new building, but they will also make it secure, clean it, maintain it, and provide catering, telephony and other services for the next 30 years.
		Granite was used in areas of high wear, and the cooling towers used stainless steel tanks and trays instead of galvanised steel as this will extend their life by two decades.
	www.designbuild-network.com /projects/gchq (1091 words)

	UK National Audit Office press notice - Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ): New Accommodation Programme
		GCHQ was able to satisfy itself that the increase was reasonable.
		GCHQ houses one of Europes largest computer complexes and the new accommodation exhibits radical differences from most office building projects.
		In this case GCHQ failed to consider all the implications of the fact that it was relocating its entire business capability to a new building and that transition of its computer systems to the new premises was a major factor.
	www.nao.org.uk /pn/02-03/0203955.htm (592 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - GCHQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GCHQ is the UK government department that is responsible for monitoring communications intelligence relevant to the UK, and as such, they are one of the leading global exponents of signals intelligence (sigint).
		In recent years, the GCHQ has gained the reputation as the one of the world's leading signals intelligence and communications security experts, and this has been as a result of their investment in technology.
		The GCHQ as we know it today, was actually founded in 1946, but its basic structure and remit was based on the Government Code and Cipher School (GCandCS).
	www0.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/gchq.shtml (880 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The function of GCHQ
		GCHQ is part of the civil service and reports to the foreign secretary.
		GCHQ also has this responsibility to protect the IT systems of bodies responsible for the UK's critical national infrastructure, such as power, water and communications providers.
		GCHQ is accountable to Parliament and senior members of the judiciary and its activities are governed by the Intelligence Services Act 1994, amended most recently by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3486460.stm (449 words)

	Casewise : About us : Case studies : GCHQ
		GCHQ recently completed a $590 / £300m programme to move its 4500 staff to a new headquarters.
		It did not have a cohesive approach to managing its processes and process documentation was patchy and not standardized.Understanding of process management was not widespread and there were problems with ownership of issues crossing internal organizational boundaries.
		There was a real risk that the transition would affect the continuity of GCHQ’s nationally important work at one of the busiest times in the organization’s history.
	www.casewise.com /aboutus/casestudies/casestudy-gchq.php (398 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Yesterday, GCHQ was trying to put on a brave face, saying: "We have had an excellent response." However, the experts who monitor internet chatter for the Government could not resist a giggle at their colleagues.
		GCHQ reports to the Foreign Secretary and works closely with MI5 and MI6 but it also serves a wide range of other government departments.
		GCHQ was spawned from the code-breaking establisment at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, that cracked the German "Enigma" code in the Second World War.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/13/ngchq13.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/13/ixportal.html (604 words)

	GCHQ underestimates cost of relocating by £430m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the main reasons for underestimating the cost was that engineers at GCHQ had calculated on the basis of moving the hardware - shifting boxes one by one - ignoring the costs of relocating the technical and communications infrastructure.
		This was partly because GCHQ had mostly stand-alone systems and nobody spotted the complexities of the newly-emerging networking connections until about two years after the estimate, according to GCHQ’s evidence to the Public Accounts Committee.
		"GCHQ acknowledged the failure of its engineers to spot that a growing degree of networking of systems was going to complicate the process of doing the technical transition," said the report.
	www.computerweekly.com /articles/article.asp?liArticleID=131291&liFlavourID=1 (585 words)

	Cook ready to lift ban on unions at GCHQ
		GCHQ said yesterday that the new Foreign Secretary had already discussed the issue with David Omand, its director, and an announcement was expected "sooner rather than later".
		GCHQ monitors radio transmissions from around the world as part of joint Anglo-American intelligence agreement known as the UKUSA Accord.
		Mike Grindley, one of the first union members to be sacked from GCHQ and a leading light in the campaign to reverse the ban, said that about half of the 14 people sacked would want to return but he did not.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/05/06/nlab606.html (645 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - MPs attack costs of GCHQ transfer
		GCHQ entered into almost two years of exclusive negotiations before the contract was even signed.
		The committee said GCHQ made a "highly uncertain assumption" that a conventionally procured building would have over-run its budget by 24 per cent.
		The buildings themselves were ready last September, but costs are forcing GCHQ to carry out the transfer in stages, meaning it will occupy one of its old sites in Cheltenham for seven years longer than planned at an extra cost of £43m.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=681112004 (500 words)

	Guardian \| Case set to be dropped against GCHQ mole who blew whistle on US bugging
		Also damaging and politically threatening is her plan to seek the disclosure of the full advice from the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, on the legality of the war against Iraq.
		The long delay suggests that even then there was a fierce debate in government and GCHQ circles about the advisability of a secrets trial against an employee who said she acted out of conscience over an issue which divided the country.
		The NSA told GCHQ that the particular targets of an eavesdropping "surge" were the delegates from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, Guinea and Pakistan - the six crucial "swing votes" on the security council.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4862946-103690,00.html (711 words)

	GCHQ and the Patent Office
		In order to preserve its intelligence collection capabilities GCHQ has a vigorous policy of trying to undermine *ANY* RandD, implementation or use of cryptography that is either outside its control or not of strategic importance to its interests (and those of its larger cousin NSA).
		Moreover, by operating this policy as an unpublished one, it is not subject to the careful scrutiny and rigorous analysis that the Treasury rightly insists that all UK Government Departments conduct to show that their policies are cost effective, affordable and of clear overall benefit to the UK citizens who pay the bills.
		My view on this is that this GCHQ policy may or may not be justified (I suspect not) but what I consider totally unjustifiable and unethical is the expenditure of *huge* sums of UK taxpayer's money to sustain a hidden policy that is not subject to any effective scrutiny or accountability to Parliament.
	www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /pipermail/ukcrypto/1997-October/000604.html (1026 words)

	Naivety led to GCHQ IT crisis - Information World Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Moving the headquarters of the GCHQ government communications centre cost more than seven times the original estimate because no one had understood the complexity of IT operations, MPs were told this week.
		GCHQ director David Pepper admitted that when plans were drawn up in the 1990s to move to a £1.2bn headquarters in Cheltenham, it was not understood how much networking there would be between computer systems.
		Sir David Omand, the Cabinet Office intelligence and security co-ordinator who was GCHQ director from 1996 to 1997, said: 'I cannot excuse the failure to recognise these issues earlier.
	www.iwr.co.uk /computing/news/2070401/naivety-led-gchq-crisis (372 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - GCHQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The systems used at GCHQ are updated regularly and conform to the latest available technology, either devised by themselves or acquire from manufacturers long before they hit the shops.
		Like the SIS and the Security Service, the activities of the GCHQ remained largely covert until the latter quarter of the 20th century.
		Parliament finally acknowledged the existence of the GCHQ in 1983, and set about creating legislation that would join their working practices with the other intelligence agencies under the 1994 Intelligence Service Act.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/gchq.shtml (880 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Whitehall \| GCHQ worker held after leak
		It is severely embarrassing to GCHQ and to Tony Blair at a time of widespread doubts about the morality of an invasion of Iraq.
		If GCHQ acted on the memo - by eavesdropping on targets simply to strengthen the US and British governments' negotiating position in the UN, on an issue itself disputed on legal grounds - it could be found in breach of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act.
		Grave doubts about the morality of their instructions were expressed privately by GCHQ officials during the 1956 Suez crisis, when they were asked to provide intelligence for an invasion of Egypt, whose highly questionable morality was compounded by secret collusion with Israel.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /whitehall/story/0,9061,911099,00.html (605 words)

	GCHQ Organizational Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GCHQ's role is officially described in recruiting literature as being responsible for ‘ensuring the security of British official and military communications...
		The GCHQ ensures planning and the supervision, the coordination and the exploitation of SIGINT of all the bodies of the Ministry for Defense (RAF, Royal Navy and Army) in metropolis and overseas.
		GCHQ says the reorganization is not along geographical lines, so it may simply affect internal sections, reflecting the increased importance of such targets as nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime and economic intelligence.
	members.aol.com /IrishInnerCircle/gchqorg.html (5958 words)

	Zircon - UK Eyes Alpha
		One of the GCHQ officers who liaised with NSA recalls, 'We had to negotiate very hard to get it moved, and then only for limited periods.' During these spells of a few hours each, the satellite's listening dish was reorientated towards the south Atlantic in order to help Cheltenham.
		Although GCHQ was grateful for NSA's help, and learnt a good deal from the occasional use of its satellite, the senior officers in Cheltenham, notably the then Director, Brian Tovey, drew certain conclusions.
		Despite Menwith's usefulness to the NSA, GCHQ officers felt that the quantity of material coming from these new satellites was tilting the sigint relationship so far in the USA's favour that there was a danger of the British contribution becoming insignificant.
	www.fas.org /irp/eprint/alpha/zircon.htm (5128 words)

	MPs slam spiralling IT costs of new GCHQ spy centre - Government & Law - Breaking Business and Technology News at ...
		GCHQ decided to do the IT and technical transfer itself for security reasons but a report out today by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) reveals experts massively underestimated the cost.
		The technical transition had originally been estimated in 1997 at £41m but it was only after extensive Y2K work that GCHQ fully understood the complexity of its systems and in 1999 a revised estimate put the bill at £450m.
		The PAC report said: "GCHQ acknowledged the failure of its engineers to spot that a growing degree of networking of systems was going to complicate the process of doing the technical transition.
	management.silicon.com /government/0,39024677,39121362,00.htm (503 words)

	GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters, Cheltenham UK
		Having met and spoken with numerous people who have a close connection with GCHQ, Robin is perhaps better placed than most to comment on speculation that the intelligence and defense services continue to express more than a passive interest in the UFO phenomena.
		In a fascinating and comprehensive report entitled GCHQ and the UFO Cover Up, Robin offers a detailed background as to the role of GCHQ, the various intelligence agencies that operate therein, and to whom they are ultimately accountable.
		Robin was prompted to undertake an in-depth study of GCHQ following a chance remark made to him on 16 October 1996 by an acquaintance who he knew had a close association with the facility.
	members.fortunecity.com /groom51/gchq.html (874 words)

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