NSA's organizational designations

After providing lists of NSA-related codenames, abbreviations and SIGADs, we now publish a list of the designations of the numerous divisions and units of the NSA organization itself, which has an estimated 40,000 employees.

This list only gives the alphanumeric designations and the official name of NSA branches. For a description of what the most important divisions do, click the links in the list or visit the websites mentioned under Links and Sources.

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA)

D: Office of the Director

D0: ?
D01: Director’s Operations Group
D05: Director’s Secretariat
D07: Office of Protocol
D08: Homeland Security Support Office
D1: Inspector General
D2: General Counsel
D5: Corporate Assessments Office
D6: Office of Equal Employment Oppertunity
D7: Deputy Chief, Central Security Service (CSS)
D7P: CSS Office of Military Personnel
D8: Community ELINT Management Office
DA: Senior Acquisition Executive
DB: Corporate Strategy
DC: Director’s Chief of Staff

E: Directorate for Education and Training

F: Field units

F1: ?
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
F20: ?
F204: Support to Military Operations for AFRICOM
F22: European Cryptologic Center (ECC)
F23: NCER Mons, Belgium
F3: ?

F4: ?
F411: Military Operations Branch
F5: ?

F6: Special Collection Service (SCS)
F666E: (SCS unit in the US embassy in Berlin?)
F7: ?
F74: Meade Operations Center (MOC)
F741: Deployments & Training Division
F77: ?
F77F: Menwith Hill
F79: ?
F79F: Misawa Security Operations Center (MSOC)
F91: ?
FC: NSA/CSS Colorado

FG: NSA/CSS Georgia
FGD: Director, Georgia
FGS: SID, Georgia
FGS3: Transnational issues group
FG32: ?
FG3223 - Media Exploitation & Analysis
FH: NSA/CSS Hawaii
FHS: Signals Intelligence Department, Hawaii
FT: NSA/CSS Texas
FTS: Signals Intelligence Department, Texas
FTS2: Analysis and Production
FTS2F1 - "Southern Arc"
FTS3: Data Acquisition
FTS32: Tailored Access Operations
FTS327: Requirements & targeting

I: Information Assurance Directorate (IAD)

I1: ?
I2: Trusted Engineering Solutions
I21: Architecture
I22: Engineering
I2N: National Nuclear Command Capabilities (NC2) Mission
I3: Information Assurance 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, and Mitigations
IC: Cyber Integration Division
IE: Engagement Division

J: ?

J2: Cryptologic Intelligence Unit

K: National Security Operations Center (NSOC)

L: Installation and Logistics

M: Human Resources

M2: Office of Military Personnel
M3: Office of Civilian Personnel
M4: ?
M43: Information Policy Division
MJ: ?
MJ1: HR operations/global personnel SA

Q: Security and Counterintelligence

Q123: ?
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

R: Research Directorate (RD)

R0: ?
R05: Center for Advanced Study of Languages
R1: Math Research
R2: Trusted Systems Research
R3: Lab for Physical Sciences (LPS)
R4: Lab for Telecom Sciences (LTS)
R5: ?
R6: Computer and Information Sciences
RX: Special Access Research

S: Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID)

S0: SID Staff
S01: Deputy for Integrated Planning
S012: ?
S02: Deputy for Communications and Support Operations
S1: Customer Relations
S11: Customer Gateway
S111: (Desk for coordinating RFIs and responses)
S12: Information Sharing and Services Branch
S12?: Partnership Dissemination Cell (PDC)
S124: Staff Services Division
S17: Strategic Intelligence Issues
S1E: Electromagnetic Space Program Management Office
S1P: Plans & Exercises Division
S1P2: EUCOM/NATO/SOUTHCOM/AFRICOM Branch
S2: Analysis and Production
S2A: South Asia Product Line
...
S2A4: Pakistan
S2A5: (South-Asia)
S2A51: S-A Language Analysis Branch
S2A52: S-A Reporting Branch
S2B: China and Korea Product Line
S2C: International Security Product Line
S2C32: European States Branch
...
S2C41: Mexico Leadership Team
S2C42: Brazilian Leadership Team
S2D: Counter-intelligence Product Line
S2E: Middle East/Asia Product Line
S2F: International Crime Product Line
S2F1: ("Southern Arc"?)
S2G: Combating Proliferation & Arms Control Product Line
S2H: Russia Product Line
S2I: Counter-Terrorism Product Line
S2I4: Homeland Mission Center (HMC)
S2I42: Hezbollah Team
S2I43: NOM Team
S2I5: Advanced Analysis Division (AAD)
S2I?: Metadata Analysis Center (MAC)
S2IX: Special CT Operations
S2J: Weapons and Space Product Line
S2T: Current Threats
S2T3: NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC)?
S3: Data Acquisition
S31: Cryptologic Exploitation Services (CES)
S3132: Protocol Exploitation and Dissemination
S31091: Military Operations Branch
S31174: Office of Target Pursuit
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)
S324: Telecomm. Network Technologies (TNT)
S325: Mission Infrastructure Technologies (MIT)
S327: Requirements & Targeting (R&T)
S326: ?
S328: Access Technologies Operations (ATO)
S32?: Network Warfare Team (NWT)
S33: Global Access Operations (GAO)
S331: FORNSAT?

S332: Terrestrial SIGINT
S33223: Processing Systems Engineering and Integration Sector
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 and Mission Integration (TSMI)
S342: Collection Coordination and Strategies
S3421: ?
S3422: Geographical Regions
S3423: Technical Services
S343: Targeting and Mission Management
S344: Partnership and Enterprise Management
S35: Special Source Operations (SSO)
S351: ?

S352: ?
S3520: Office of Target Reconaissance and Survey (OTRS)
S3521: Special Signal Collection unit (MUSKETEER)
S353: ?
S3532: PRINTAURA
S3533: ?
S35333: PRISM Collection Management
S35P: Portfolio Management Office
S35P2: Technical Integration Division
S35P3: Capabilities Integration Division
SE: SIGINT & Electronic Warfare

SV: Oversight and Compliance
SV4: Special FISA Oversight and Processing

T: Technology Directorate

T1: Mission Capabilities
T132: Scissors team
T1?: Strategic SATCOM Security Engineering Office
T2: Business Capabilities
T3: Enterprise IT Services
T3221: Transport Field Services
T332: Global Enterprise Command Center
T334: National Signals Processing Center
T335: Deployable Communications Operations
T5: High Performance Computing Center (CARILLON)
T6: Technical SIGINT and ground capabilities
TE: Enterprise Systems Engineering and Architecture
TS: Information Systems and Security
TT: Independent Test and Evaluation