After two years, the NSA finished rebidding its “Groundbreaker” program and is beginning work on a secretive new set of communications contracts.
The National Security Agency is quietly beginning work on a new series of three communications contracts valued at $6.7 billion.
Details are sparse because the classified contracts—collectively called Greenway—were secretly awarded to telecommunications giant AT&T and defense contractors General Dynamics and ManTech International over the past year. Redacted legal documents following a protest of one of the contracts in March indicate the NSA’s goal is to “technically evolve” its IT environment.
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WNU editor: I am not sure if this decision to outsource the agency’s IT operations to industry is the right move. Past NSA's leaks came from people who work in private sector, and they have been incredibly damaging (i.e. Edward Snowden). And while I do understand the cost saving measures and the need to focus on what is your core mission (in the NSA's case it is signal intelligence and protecting America), I am not convinced that when it comes to national security measures this is the policy that should be followed.
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I have experience in this type of thing, NSA will make the decisions and their employees will still be involved. Contractors will run the equipment, network with NSA oversight.
Good to know Stephen. Thank you for your input.
There's several ways to reduce spying efforts. One is ofc oversight and use NSA personnel. The other is to finally get serious about penalties. We give death penalty to people who do far less than Chinese spies stealing trillions from us. Do you know how many hospitals can be run and lives saved with the money Chinese spies steal from us every year? It equates to tends of thousands of lives. Every single one of those spies should get decades in prison..but no, we let them out early, only for them to return to China where they live on a hero's pension. This must stop. I hope Trump gets serious about spying and theft and the damage they do to our economy. Think about it, and write to your congressmen and senators. We gotta take this more seriously.
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