The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency.
NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications by laws.
Headquarters for the National Security Agency is set apart from but is technically inside Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, on 350 acres.
The NSA, which has about 42,000 1⃣government and contract workers.
NSA's mission, is set forth in Executive Order 12333, it is to collect information that constitutes "foreign intelligence or counterintelligence".
NSA/CSS provides intelligence products and services to the White House, executive agencies (such as CIA and the State Department), the Chairman and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), military combatant commanders and component commands, military departments, multinational forces, and U.S. allies. In addition, we provide Information Assurance products and services to users of national security information systems and to government contractors, as required.
As of 2012, NSA collected intelligence from four geostationary satellites.
Satellite receivers were at Roaring Creek station in Catawissa, Pennsylvania and Salt Creek in Arbuckle, California.[37] It operated ten to twenty taps on U.S. telecom switches. NSA had installations in several U.S. states and from them observed intercepts from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and Asia.2⃣
The NSA has an electronic monitoring station in RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The base covered 562 acres.
They are building at FORT MEADE, Md. a new High Performance Computing Center-2, an NSA-run facility .The 600,000-square-foot center will include 70,000 square feet of computer space.
It has a $8-10 billion annual budget.
1⃣ Bloomberg June 2013 .
2⃣ Wikipedia
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