National Security Operations Center Floor in 2012. Wikipedia
NSA Growth Fueled By Need To Target Terrorists -- Washington Post
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a larger workforce and more powerful computers. Already bigger than the Pentagon in square footage, the NSA’s footprint will grow by an additional 50 percent when construction is complete in a decade.
And that’s just at its headquarters at Fort Meade, Md.
The nation’s technical spying agency has enlarged all its major domestic sites — in Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Texas and Utah — as well as those in Australia and Britain.
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, its civilian and military workforce has grown by one-third, to about 33,000, according to the NSA. Its budget has roughly doubled, and the number of private companies it depends on has more than tripled, from 150 to close to 500, according to a 2010 Washington Post count.
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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS
US Secret Court Renews Phone Surveillance Program -- Voice of America
UN Warns on Mobile Cybersecurity Bugs to Prevent Attacks -- Voice of America
Protest rally at suspected German NSA site-- AP
Spying Scandal Piles Pressure on Merkel Over Extent of NSA Links -- Bloomberg
Russia Announces a Naval Buildup in the Pacific -- The Diplomat
Iran’s army armed with new generation of ballistic missile -- Trend
Taiwan a 'testing ground' for Chinese cyber army -- Reuters
Russian Armed Forces Complete Combat Readiness Snap Check -- RIA Novosti
North Korea criticizes military drill -- UPI
Soviet-era weaponry found hidden on North Korean freighter -- Washington Post
Afghan parliament sacks interior minister over security issues -- Reuters
Army to have Apache attack choppers in Mountain Strike Corps -- Business Standard
Canada Refuses To Accept Sikorsky Helos -- Defense News
Soldier deaths: Brecon Beacons church service pays tributes -- BBC
US Navy consider salvaging bombs from Barrier Reef -- The Telegraph
KC-46 critical design review nearing completion -- US Air Force
Future Carriers Built to Carry Drone Fleets -- Defense Tech
Navy Develops New Class of Oilers -- DoD Buzz
LCS Freedom Suffers Propulsion Loss at Sea -- Defense News
Greenert Defends LCS Survivability -- DoD Buzz
Navy chief on surge capability: ‘We’re not where we need to be’ -- Washington Times
US Navy will have fewer reinforcements in a crisis -- Space War/AFP
Pentagon chief can't offer hope in budget cuts -- AP
Doubts Loom Over Hagel's Plan to Cut Staff -- Defense News
Military Sexual Assault Bill Would Reassign Authority -- NPR
Strain on military families affects young children, report says -- Washington Post
Air Force program has offered Stars and Stripes flown on drones -- Washington Post
Supervisor says she suspected Bradley Manning was a spy -- Stars and Stripes/Tribune Washington Bureau
Pentagon Signs $31K Contract for Oil Portrait of Leon Panetta -- Weekly Standard
The U.S. Does Not Need New Theater Missiles -- David W. Kearn, Huffington Post
Trident missiles are useless (unless we're prepared to point them at Brussels) -- Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail
Rise of the Warrior Cop: Is it time to reconsider the militarization of American policing? -- Radley, Wall Street Journal
Editorial: Mapping Europe's Defense Future -- Defense News
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