Nsa's Organizational Designations

(Updated: Dec 29, 2018)

After providing lists of NSA-related codenames, abbreviations as well as SIGADs, nosotros similar a shot issue a listing of the designations of the numerous divisions as well as units of the NSA organisation itself.

Unlike other intelligence agencies such every bit CIA or DIA, NSA never disclosed its internal organizational structure. The next overview has been reconstructed based upon information which over the years became available from diverse sources, including many documents from the Snowden-leaks.

This listing solely gives the alphanumeric designations, the official call and, if available, the logo of NSA branches. For a description of what the most of import divisions do, click the links inward the listing or see the websites mentioned nether Links as well as Sources.

In 2013, the next numbers of people worked for NSA/CSS:
- NSA: ca. 21,500 civilian personnel as well as ca. 13,500 military machine personnel
- CSS (tactical SIGINT collection units): ca. 12,000 military machine personnel

> Update: In 2016, a major internal reorganization of NSA was initiated

Go to the directorate designated by: D E F I K L M Q R S T V X

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA)

D: Office of the Director

D0: Director's Staff

D01: Director’s Operation Group (DOG)
D05: Director’s Secretariat
D07: Office of Protocol
D08: Homeland Security Support Office (HSSO)

D1: Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

D14: ?

D2: Office of the General Counsel (OGC)

D21: Intelligence Law
D22: Legislation
D23: Administrative Law as well as Ethics
D24: ?
...
D28: Litigation as well as Management

D4: Office of the Director of Compliance (ODOC)

D5: Corporate Assessments Office

D5T: Technology Test as well as Evaluation
D6: Office of Equal Employment Oppertunity

D7: Central Security Service (CSS)

D709: CSS Staff as well as Resources
D7D: Cryptologic Doctrine Office
D7P: Office of Military Personnel
D7R: Director's Reserve Forces Advisor

D8: Community ELINT Management Office (CEMO)

D9 : ?

DA: Directorate of Acquisition/Senior Acquisition Executive (SAE)

DB: Corporate Strategy

DC: Director’s Chief of Staff

DC0: Support
DC3: Policy

DC31: Corporate Policy
DC32: Information Policy

DC321: Freedom of Information Act as well as Privacy Act (FOIA/PA)
DC322: Information Security as well as Records Management

DC3221: Information Security Policy
DC3223: Records Management Policy
DC323: Automated Declassification Services
DC33: Technology Security, Export, as well as Encryption Policy
DC4: Corporate Strategic Planning as well as Performance
DC6: External Relations & Communications
DC8: Corporate Management Services

DE: Unified Cryptologic Architecture Office (OCAO)
DF: Chief Financial Manager (CFM)
DJ: Policy as well as Records Office

DJ4: Freedom of Information as well as Privacy Office
...
DJP2: Information Security Policy

DK: Chief Information Officer (CIO)
DL: Legislative Affairs Office (LAO)
DN: NSA Public Affairs Office (PAO)

DN1: ?

DP: Foreign Affairs Directorate (FAD)

DP0: ?

DP09: FAD Staff

DP1: Special Advisor for Foreign Partner Strategies

DP11: Second Party Affairs Office
DP13: Central/Eastern Europe Office
...
DP16: NATO Affairs Office

DP2: ?

DP21: Information Assurance?

DT: Office of the Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

E: Associate Directorate for Education as well as Training (ADET)

El: Educational Services as well as Staff
E2: Educational Technology Integration
E3: Language
E4: Intelligence Analysis as well as Information Assurance
E5: Signals Analysis, Cryptanalysis, as well as Math
E6: ?

E63: ?

E9: ?

E92: ?

EL: Center for Leadership as well as Professional Development

F: Field sites

F1: Cryptologic Services Groups (CSGs)

F1C: ?

F1CA: Cryptologic Services Group USSTRATCOM
F1CD: Life Cycle Logistics

F1CD1: Technical Services Group

F1I: ?

F1I2: Joint Interagency Task Force South
F1T: ?

F1T1: Cryptologic Services Group USSOCOM
F1Z: Cryptologic Services Group CENTCOM

F1Z2: Deputy Chief, CSG CENTCOM

F2: NSA/CSS Europe as well as Africa (NCEUR)

F20: ?

F202: NSA unit of measurement inward Stuttgart Vaihingen, Germany
F204: Support to Military Operations for AFRICOM
F22: European Cryptologic Center (ECC) close Darmstadt, Germany
F23: NCER Mons, Belgium

F25: European Technical Center (ETC) inward Wiesbaden, Germany

F28: Special U.S. of A. Liaison Activity FRG (SUSLAG) inward Bad Aibling, Germany

F3: ?

F313: Combined Group FRG (CGG) inward Augsburg, Germany

F32: ?

F321: Liaison Officer at Digby SIGINT Operations Centre

F33: SUSLO Canberra

F4: ?

F411: Military Operations Branch

F412: ?

F41221: NSA/CSS Representative Nihon (NCRJ)

F5: Liaison Support Groups

F51: Liaison Support Group at CIA

F6: Special Collection Service (SCS)

F61: Field Operations Office/SCS
...
F66: ?

F666E: (SCS unit of measurement inward the U.S. of A. diplomatic mission inward Berlin?)

F7: ?

F74: Meade Operations Center (MOC)

F741: Deployments & Training Division
F74?: Special Operations Readiness Cell (SORC)

F77: Menwith Hill Station (MHS)

F77F: Menwith Hill unit of measurement

F78: Australian Mission Ground Station (AMGS, Pine Gap)

F79: Misawa Security Operations Center (MSOC)

F79F: Misawa unit

F7A: Alaska Mission Operations Center (AMOC)

F7U: Utah Regional Operations Center (UROC)

F8: ?

F81: Bad Aibling Station, FRG (-2004)

F83: RAF Menwith Hill (1966-present)

F9: ?

F91: ?

FC: NSA/CSS Colorado (NSAC)

FCS: Signals Intelligence Department, Colorado

FG: NSA/CSS Georgia (NSAG)

FGD: Director, Georgia
FGS: Signals Intelligence Department, Georgia

FGS2F: SW Asia Narcotics

FGS3: Transnational issues group
FG32: ?

FG3223: Media Exploitation & Analysis

FGS2E3: Middle East/North Africa shop

FGT3322: ISR Support Team

FGT342: ISR Support Team

FGV: Threat Operations Center, Georgia

FH: NSA/CSS Hawaii (NSAH)

FHQ: Security Department, Hawaii

FHS: Signals Intelligence Department, Hawaii

FHS2I: Counter-Terrorism (CT) Product Line

FHS2I2: Sunni Extremism

FHS32: Network Development Department

FHT: Technology Department, Hawaii

FHT322: Office of Information Sharing
FHT332: information technology Customer Solutions

FHV: Threat Operations Center, Hawaii

FHX: ?

FHX4: ?

FT: NSA/CSS Texas (NSAT)

FTS: Signals Intelligence Department, Texas

FTS2: Analysis as well as Production

FTS2F1: "Southern Arc"
FTS2F2: Transnational Crime as well as Narcotics (TCN)

FTS3: Data Acquisition

FTS32: Tailored Access Operations

FTS327: Requirements & targeting

FTV: Threat Operations Center, Texas

I: INFORMATION ASSURANCE DIRECTORATE (IAD)
(ca. 3000 employees)

I0: Chief of Staff

I01: Office of Policy

I01C: Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS)

I2: Trusted Engineering Solutions

I209: Support Staff
I21: Architecture
I22: Engineering
I23: ?

I231: HAIPE Program Management Office (PMO)
I2N: National Nuclear Command Capabilities (N2C2) Mission
I3: Operations

I31: Current Operations
I33: Remote & Deployed Operations
I3?: Mission Integration Office
I3?: Technical Security Evaluations
I3?: Red Cell
I3?: Blue Cell
I3?: Advanced Adversary Network Penetration Cell
I3?: Joint Communications Security Monitoring
I4: Fusion, Analysis as well as Mitigation

I4 ?

I412: ?

I5: ?

I54: ?

I542: ?
I543: ?

I7: ?

I73: ?

I735: ?

I8: ?

I82: ?

I823: ?

I8231: Microelectronics Anti-Tamper Solutions

I85: ?

I853: Cryptographic Engines, Modules, as well as Tokens

IE: Engagement
IS: Strategy
IC: Cyber Integration
IV: Oversight as well as Compliance

K: National Security Operations Center (NSOC)

K?: SIGINT Mission Management (SMM)

K??: [...] SIGINT Mission Management (APSMM)
K??: [...] SIGINT Mission Management (CRSMM)
K?: Counter-Terrorism Mission Management Center (CTMMC)
K9: Capabilities as well as Sustaining Systems (CASS)

K92: Current Capabilities for Mission Management (C2M2)

L: Associate Directorate for Installations as well as Logistics (ADIL)

L0: I&L Staff
LF: Facilities Services

LFl: Space Management as well as Facilities Planning
LF2: ?
LF3: Operations, Maintenance as well as Utilities
LF4: ?
LF5: Program Management
LL: Logistics Services

LL1: Material Management
LL2: Transportation, Asset, as well as Disposition Services

LL22: Passport Services Team

LL3: Employee Morale Services
LL4: ?

LL42: Corporate Travel Services

M: Associate Directorate for Human Resource Services (ADHRS)

MA: Office of Workforce Strategies
MB: Office of Recruitment as well as Staffing
MC: Office of Diversity Management (ODM)
MD: Office of Human Resource Program Management & Service
ME: Office of Occupational Health, Environmental & Safety Services (OHESS)
MG: Office of Global Human Resource Services
M2: Office of Military Personnel
M3: Office of Civilian Personnel
M4: ?

M43: Information Policy Division
MJ: ?

MJ1: HR operations/global personnel SA

Q: Associate Directorate for Security as well as Counterintelligence (ADS&CI)

Q0: Staff

Q05: Security Operations Center (SOC)
Q07: NSA Counterintelligence Center (NSACC)
Q09: Security Support Staff
Q1: Office of Physical Security

Q123: ?

Q2: Office of Personnel Security

Q223: Counterintelligence Awareness

Q3: Investigations Division

Q31: ?

Q311: Counterintelligence Investigations
Q312: Compromise Investigations Branch

Q5: Office of Security

Q509: Security Policy Staff
Q51: Physical Security Division
Q52: Field Security Division
Q55: NSA CCAO
Q56: Security Awareness
Q57: Polygraph
Q7: Counterintelligence

QJ: Joint Program Security Office

R: Research Associate Directorate (RAD or RD)

R1: Math & Research
R2: Trusted Systems Research

R21: Cryptographic IA Research

R211: ?
...
R213: High Confidence Software as well as Systems (HCSS)?

R22: IA Engineering Research

R222: ?
R223: Research Integration
R224: ?
R225: ?

R23: Defense Computing Research

R3: Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS)
R4: Laboratory for Telecom Services (LTS)
R5: Language Study
R6: Computer Information as well as Science

R63: Innovative Exploration Techniques
R64: ?
R66E: Human Language Technology Research
R66F: JHU
R67: Human Language Technology
R6?: Coping amongst Information Overload Office
R6?: Disruptive Technologies Office (DTO)

RX: Special Access Research
RV: Oversight as well as Compliance

S: SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE (SID)
(ca. 24.000 employees)

S0: SID Staff

S01: Deputy for Integrated Planning

S012: ?

S0121: SID Communications

S01X: SIGINT Planning, Programming as well as Execution

S01X1: Technical Support Program Management Office (TSPMO)

S02: Communications as well as Support Operations

S0231: SID Policy Staff
...
S0242: ?

S02L: ?

S02L1: SIGINT Policy

S1: CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS

S11: Customer Gateway

S111: (Desk for coordinating RFIs as well as responses)
S112: NATO/DEA/DoJ/DoC Representative

S12: Information Sharing Services Branch

S12?: Partnership Dissemination Cell (PDC)

S1213: SIGINT Post-Publication Services

S124: Staff Services Division

S12C1: Intelink as well as Interface Services
...
S12M2: Marketing as well as Communications Branch

S12R: SID Reporting Board

S13: ?

S1311: Blue Force Cell

S17: Strategic Intelligence/Economic as well as Global Issues
S1E: Electromagnetic Space Program Management Office
S1N: ?

S1N2: ?
S1N3: ?

S1P: Plans & Exercises Division

S1P2: EUCOM/NATO/SOUTHCOM/AFRICOM Branch

S2: ANALYSIS as well as PRODUCTION (A & P)

S20: A&P Staff

S202B: Analytic Technologies for the Enterprise
S203A: Access Interface Portfolio

S21: ?

S211: Advanced Analysis Lab
S212: ?

S21212: Content Analysis Services

S214: Center for Executive Protection
...
S21T: TRAILBLAZER Mission Element

S22: ?
S23: Human Language Technology (HLT)
S24: ?

S2413: Center for Time-Sensitive Information

S2A: Southern Asia Product Line

...

S2A21: Sudan/North Africa team

S2A4: Pakistan
S2A5: (South-Asia)

S2A51: S-A Language Analysis Branch
S2A52: S-A Reporting Branch

S2B: China, Korea, Taiwan Product Line

S2B33: Office of Red People's Republic of China as well as Korea

S2C: International Security Issues (ISI) Product Line

S2C13: Strategic Partnerships & Energy SIGDEV
...
S2C21: ?
...
S2C32: European States Branch
...
S2C41: Mexico Leadership Team
S2C42: Brazilian Leadership Team
...
S2C51: ?
S2C52: (United Nations?)*

S2D: Counter Intelligence as well as HUMINT Support

S2D1: Central Eurasia Division
...
S2D31: Support to HUMINT operations

S2E: Middle East as well as Africa (MEA) Product Line

S2E22: Republic of Iraq branch
...
S2E3: Near East Division

S2E32: North African Branch

S2E4: Iran? Division

S2E41: Islamic Republic of Iran Government Branch
S2E43: Islamic Republic of Iran Leadership Branch

S2F: International Crime & Narcotics (ICN) Product Line

S2F1: ("Southern Arc"?)

S2F214: Money laundering?

S2G: Counter Proliferation (CP) Product Line

S2G21: Office of Proliferation as well as Arms Control
...
S2G6: Office of Combating Proliferation

S2H: Russian Federation Product Line
S2I: Counter-Terrorism (CT) Product Line

S2I11: Al-Qa'ida Leadership as well as Target Pursuit Branch
S2I12: ?
S2I13: Global Jihad Support Network Branch

S2I2: Middle East as well as Republic of Iraq Division
S2I3: ?

S2I35: ? (related to RC-135U?)
S2I4: Homeland Security Analysis Center (HSAC)

S2I41: Branch Management
S2I42: Hezbollah Team
S2I43: NOM Team

S2I5: Advanced Analysis Division (AAD)

S2I51: ?
S2I?: Metadata Analysis Center (MAC)
S2IX: Special CT Operations
S2J: Weapons as well as Space Product Line
S2T: Current Threats
S2S: ?

S2S1: Metadata Analysis Center (MAC)
Communications Event Analysis Center (CEAC)

S3: DATA ACQUISITION

S31: Cryptanalysis as well as Exploitation Services (CES)

S310: ?

S31091: Military Operations Branch

S311: Office of Target Pursuit (OTP)

S31122: ?

S31131: Exploitation branche
S31133: Exploitation branche
S31142: Exploitation branche
S31143: Exploitation branche

S3117: Cryptanalytic Exploitation & Discovery

S31171: PRC, N-Korea, SE Asia, Japan
S31172: Iran, Hamas, Iraqu, Saudi Arabia
S31173: Africa, Levant, Latin America, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
S31174: Russia, Counter-Intek, Europe, FTM
S31175: Cross-Target Support Branch
S31176: Custom Thread Development for Network Encryption
S31177: TRANSGRESSION

S31??: Technical Exploitation Center (TEC)
...
S312: ?

S31213: Network Security Products
...
S31241: Attack Services
S31243: LONGHAUL/C2DP?

S313: Requirements as well as Thread Management (or Exploitation Solutions Office)

S3132: Protocol Exploitation as well as Dissemination

S31322: Digital Network Crypt Applications (DNCA)
S31323: ?

S314: ?

S316: Target Reconaissance as well as Survey

S3161: Special Deployments Division

S32: Tailored Access Operations (TAO)

S321: Remote Operations Center (ROC)

S321?: Network Ops Center (NOC)
S321?: Oper. Readiness Division (ORD)
S321?: Interactive Ops Division (IOD)
S321?: Production Ops Division (POD)
S321?: Access Ops Division (AOD)
S322: Advanced Network Technology (ANT)

S3221: (persistence software)
S3222: (software implants)

S32221: ?
S32222: (routers, servers, etc.)
S3223: (hardware implants)
S3224: ?

S32241: ?
S32242: (GSM cell)
S32243: (radar retro-refl.)

S323: Data Network Technologies (DNT)

S32354: STDP (FASHIONCLEFT)
...
S32361: ?

S324: Telecomm. Network Technologies (TNT)

S32423: ?

S325: Mission Infrastructure Technologies (MIT)
S327: Requirements & Targeting (R&T)
S326: Access Operations

S3261: Access as well as Target Development

S328: Access Technologies & Operations (ATO)

S3283: Expeditionary Access Operations (EAO)
...
S3285: Persistance POLITERAIN team

S32P: TAO Program Planning Integration
S32?: Network Warfare Team (NWT)
S32X: ?

S33: Global Access Operations (GAO) (or Link Access Programs)

S331: FORNSAT?

S3311: Radio Exploitation

S33113: HF Mission Management
...
S33123: Mobile Satellite Services/FALLOWHAUNT team
...
S33141: Airborne Collection Management

S332: Terrestrial SIGINT

S33221: ?
S33223: Processing Systems Engineering as well as Integration Sector
...
S3323: Global Operations Management Division

S333: Overhead SIGINT

S333?: Overhead Collection Management Center (OCMC)
S33P: Portfolio Management Office (PMO)

S33P1: ?
S33P2: Technology Integration Division
S33P3: Tactical SIGINT Technology Office
S33?: CROSSHAIR Network Management Center (CNMC)
S34: Target Strategies as well as Mission Integration (TSMI)

S342: Collection Coordination as well as Strategies

S3421: ?
S3422: Geographical Regions
S3423: Technical Services
S343: Targeting as well as Mission Management
S344: Partnership as well as Enterprise Management

S35: Special Source Operations (SSO)

S350: ?

S35093: Target Exploitation Program

S351: Program Management Division

S3511: Terrestrial RF Division
...
S3516: JUBILEECORONA?

S352: Engineering & Technical Services Division

S3520: Office of Target Reconaissance as well as Survey (OTRS)
S3521: Special Signal Collection unit of measurement (MUSKETEER)

S353: Operations & Discovery Division

S3531: PRISM? Mission Management
S3532: PRINTAURA?

S35324: OAKSTAR Program Office

S3533: ?

S35333: PRISM Collection Management

S35??: Environmental Analysis Branch

S35P: Portfolio Management Office

S35P2: Technical Integration Division
S35P3: Capabilities Integration Division

S3C: Collection Strategies as well as Requirements Center (CSRC)

S3C32: Collection Forwarding & Outages
S3C33: Initial Flow Management branch

S3M2: (Media Leaks Task Force?)

S3T: ?

S3T1: ?

S3W: Wireless Portfolio Management Office (WPMO)

S4: ?

S44: ?

S444: Special Operational Support

SSG: SIGDEV Strategy as well as Governance

SSG1: ?

SSG11: ?
...
SSG13: ?

SSG2: ?

SSG21: Net Pursuit Network Analysis Center
SSG22: Network Analysis Center (NAC)
...
SSG??: Target Analysis Center (TAC)

SSG4: Target Technology Trends Center (T3C)

SE: SIGINT & Electronic Warfare

SV: Oversight as well as Compliance

SV2: Training

SV21: Access Oversight Training as well as Strategic Guidance

SV3: Compliance Verification

SV4: FISA Authorities Division

SV41: ?
SV42: Special FISA Oversight as well as Processing
SV43: ?

T: TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE

TE: Enterprise Systems
TS: Information as well as Systems Security
TT: Independent Test as well as Evaluation

T1: Mission Capabilities

T1?: Strategic SATCOM Security Engineering Office
T11: ?

T111: TUTELAGE
T112: TURMOIL
T113: TUMULT

T12: Analytic Capabilities

T121: ?

T1211: ?
...

T122: Knowledge Services

T1221: Center for Content Extraction (CCE)
T1222: Enrichment Center/Operations

T13: ?

T132: Structured Repositories

T14: ?

T1412: (TURBINE team?)
...
T1422: Identifier Scoreboard
...
T1442: ?

T2: Business Capabilities

T3: Enterprise information technology Services

T314: End User Solutions

T32: ?

T3212: Workflow, Standards as well as Support
...
T3221: Transport Field Services (TFS)

T332: Global Enterprise Command Center (GECC)

T332?: Data as well as Network Operations
T332?: NSA Communications Center
T332?: NISIRT (contains CERT as well as CSIRT)
T333: ?

T3332: Data Operations Center (DOC)

T334: National Signals Processing Center (NSPC)
T335: Deployable Communications Operations (DCO)
T33?: National Intelligence as well as Tactical Operations (NITO)
T5: High Performance Computing (HPC) Center

T53: HPC Integration as well as Production

T532: CA Databases

T5323: LONGHAUL team

T6: Ground Systems Program Office

T9: ?

T99: ?

TV: Office of compliance

V: NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC)

V07: ?
V2: Office of Analysis

V22: ?

V222: ?
V225: ?

V23: ?
V24: ?
V25: Malicious Activity Discovery-Characterization

V252: ?

V26: ?

V3: Office of Operations

V32: Defensive Network Operations
V33: ?
V34: Next Generation Wireless Exploitation Program
V35: ?

V4: Technology Development Support

V43: Cyper Profiling as well as Operations Support
...
V45: Office of Technology Development
V46: Technology Planning as well as Assessment
V47: Technology Development

VS: ?

VV: NTOC Oversight as well as Compliance (NOC)

X: ?

X3: ?

X31: ?

X312: Planning & Management
X32: ?

? Associate Directorate for Policy as well as Records (ADPR)

? NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC)

The 2000 reorganization

In the yr 2000, as well as hence managing director Michael Hayden reorganized much of NSA's organizational structure. For this the NSA Transformation Office (NTO) was established as well as the directorates of Operations as well as of Technology were merged into the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID).

Also novel officers were appointed, similar a Chief Financial manager, a Chief Information Officer (CIO), a Senior Acquisition Executive (SAE) as well as a Transformation Officer. Around the same time, many NSA divisions as well as units got novel designations.

Also inward 2000, a Senior Leadership squad was formed, consisting of the Director (DIRNSA), the Deputy Director as well as the Directors of the Signals Intelligence (SID), the Information Assurance (IAD) as well as the Technology Directorate (TD). The chiefs of other main NSA divisions became Associate Directors of the Senior Leadership team.

The 2016 reorganization

In 2016, NSA managing director Michael Rogers initiated a reorganization nether the call NSA21, which has to gear upward the way for "cyber" challenges. One of the most of import changes volition endure to supervene upon the Signals Intelligence (SID) as well as Information Assurance (IAD) directorates past times a novel Directorate of Operations that combines the operational elements of each. The hacking sectionalization Tailored Access Operations (TAO) has been renamed into Computer Network Operations.

Also the other existing branches volition endure reorganized into the next half dozen novel directorates:

- Workforce as well as Support Activities
- Business Management as well as Acquisition
- Engagement as well as Policy
- Operations
- Capabilities
- Research