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This document is an article from SIDToday, an internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate division. It is a part of the series titled "Ask Zelda", an advice column. This article describes how supervisors can promote an…

This is an NSA document from the internal newsletter SIDtoday. It is written by Teresa H. Shea, Director, Signal Intelligene Directorate, and gives general congratulations to the 'SIGINT Enterprise' for a successful 2011, with a focus on their work…

This docuument is a memo prepared by an official within the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate. It raises the possibility that SID's existing SIGINT storage capacities are suitable for the amount of data being retrieved across different SIGINT…

This document is a memo created by an official within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. In it, the author describes "analysis paralysis", a situation where over analysis hinders developing coherent action. The article then goes…

This document is a memo prepared by an official within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. It describes analysts' temptations to succumb to "summit fever", the drive to invest more and more resources into an already failed…

This document is an article from an internal NSA newsletter. It contains an NSA analyst's reminiscences about working at the European Technical Center (ETC) in Stuttgart, Germany.

This document is also known as United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18. It prescribes policies and procedures, and assigns responsibilities to ensure that the NSA's signals intelligence activities are aligned with the U.S. Constitution's 4th…

This report was prepared by an official in the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. It criticizes some commonly held philosophical viewpoints within the administration of the NSA.

This document is a memo prepared by an official in the NSA. It describes the "channel capacity" of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). This capacity refers to the divisions ability to meaningfully analzye the amounts of data that it…

This document is a memo prepared by the Signals Intelligence Division (SID) of the NSA. It describes the impact of Information Management and Storage (IM&S) systems providing long term access to various repositories of electronic intelligence…