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

V: NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC)

V3: NTOC Operations

V34: Next Generation Wireless Exploitation Program

? Foreign Affairs Directorate (FA)


? Acquisitions and Procurement Directorate



Links and Sources
- TheWeek.com: The NSA's org chart
- MatthewAid.com: Updated NSA Order of Battle
- William M. Arkin Online: NSA Tailored Access Operations
- Independent.co.uk: Inside the NSA: Peeling back the curtain on America's intelligence agency