[131352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHS and NSA getting married?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Fri Oct 22 11:30:44 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:17:32 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/21/2010 10:46 PM, George Bonser wrote:
> Among other things, a senior DHS cyber official and other DHS employees
> will move to the NSA to be closer to the heart of the military's cyber
> defense capability. Closer collaboration provides "an opportunity to
> look at new ways that we can do national cyber incident response, he
> said.
>
> http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4939254&c=AME&s=TOP
Okay, so the Feds have set up a way to not duplicate effort (and waste
money at the same) between agencies.
Don't really see the downside here.
Full disclosure: Assigned to Army TCAE at Ft. Meade in the NSA compound
for a couple years in the late 90s - assigned for awhile with the unit
that is probably now associated with this.
--
Jeff Shultz
