The National Security Agency is about to launch its most ambitious reorganization in years, bringing together teams charged with gathering intelligence around the world with those tasked with defending U.S. secrets.
The plan, which the agency calls NSA21, is expected to be detailed publicly next week. A congressman who has been briefed and a former intelligence official described the outlines to The Baltimore Sun.
The new organization is to be called the Directorate of Operations. Combining the agency's offensive and defensive missions — formally called signals intelligence and information assurance — is designed to boost capabilities on both sides, pulling together information to supercharge eavesdropping efforts while helping to fend off hackers.
The plans already are drawing concern from privacy activists, who say documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden showed that attack routinely took priority over defense even under the old arrangement, potentially leaving Internet users vulnerable as the NSA leaves security flaws open so it can keep harvesting information.
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More News On The NSA Merging Their Offensive And Defensive Operations
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Here's Why the National Security Agency Is Overhauling its Spy Operations -- Jonathan Vanian, Fortune
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