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Profile: Tackling the NSA’s Innovation Challenge

Posted: February 6th, 2019

Innovation in Government isn’t generally a phrase that rolls off the tongue, but in a relatively unconstrained threat environment, innovation has become synonymous with survival.

A few years ago, the world’s most secretive signals intelligence agency underwent a significant reorganization effort that combined elements of the Agency’s offensive and defensive cyber components.  The NSA was looking to realign the organization so they could better integrate with their military component, the Central Security Service (CSS).  They also needed to better integrate with their contractor base and all of their partners.

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