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| Massive NSA Facility Being Built In Utah |
| 2011-01-06 |
| Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Administration(sic) data center. Officially named the Utah Data Center, the facility's role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname "Spy Center." Its really long moniker is the Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center — the first in the nation's intelligence community. A White House document identifies the Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative as addressing "one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government or as a country are not adequately prepared to counter." The center is designed to be capable of generating all of its own power through backup electrical generators and will have both fuel and water storage. That's National Security Agency. In addition to gathering and collating data from different agencies, it has been suggested that this center will be in charge of Internet defense and warfare. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #2 Wonder if they'll be doing any work on the sequel to Stuxnet? Hmmmm. Interesting. But then, where will they buy hardware that isn't made in China? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-01-06 12:27 |
| #1 Just googled Camp Williams, and the physical site isn't particularly impressive from an OPSEC perspective, not at all remote from a suburban environment. However, proximity to the best linguistic base with high confidence in U.S. allegience couldn't be better. All those Mormons and their worldwide missions give the NSA a perfect recruiting base of trustworthy linguists. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2011-01-06 11:53 |