INSIDE THE NSA - RON P MILIONE   28 September 2013 NSA IDA Cryptologic Research Centers https://www.ida.org/aboutus/organization/centers.php Center for Communications and Computing For nearly 50 years IDA has played a key role in the research endeavors of the National Security Agency, providing cutting-edge research in those areas of mathematics and computer science that are fundamental to the NSA missions of protecting our national security information systems against exploitation, and providing the United States with effective foreign signals intelligence. The program has two intertwined research areas: communications research, and computing research. Communications Research The IDA Center for Communications Research (CCR) in Princeton, New Jersey, and La Jolla, California, perform mathematical research that supports the NSA’s two missions: protecting the information and communications of the U.S. government, and deriving foreign signals intelligence. Computing Research While high-end computing is an important part of the research program at the Center for Computing Sciences (CCS), its mission has broadened over the years to reflect global political and technological changes to include not only high-performance computing for cryptography, but also cryptography itself, network security, signal processing, and computational/mathematical techniques for mining and “understanding” very large data sets. Princeton, NJ: http://www.idaccr.org/ Center for Communications Research - Princeton 805 Bunn Drive Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Our Mission The Center for Communications Research in Princeton performs applied mathematical and computational research in cryptology and related disciplines. Mathematics CCR-P conducts mathematical research supporting the twin tasks facing cryptologists: cryptography and cryptanalysis. Mathematics remains the fundamental science used to create and analyze the complex algorithms used to encipher vulnerable communications. Virtually every branch of pure and applied mathematics has proved to be useful in these efforts. For example, techniques from the geometry of algebraic curves provide better methods for detecting and correcting errors in data transmission. Even where no explicit mathematics is involved, the mathematical mode of thinking seems to be ideally suited to cryptologic problems. It is critical that we recruit the very best new mathematical talent. This requires that we foster amd maintain close ties with the academic mathematical world. On occasion graduate students and renowned professors are brought in to work closely with regular CCR-P staff and other mathematicians on difficult and important problems. Speech and Signals As the modes and means of modern communications become more complex, we have expanded our research into other areas including speech, the processing of signals to remove noise and distortion, and network security. La Jolla, CA: http://www.ccrwest.org/ Center for Communications Research 4320 Westerra Court San Diego, California 92121-1969 Telephone: (858) 622-8600 FAX: (858) 622-8601 NSA IDA Cryptologic Research Centers Center for Communications Research - Princeton 805 Bunn Drive Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Center for Communications Research 4320 Westerra Court San Diego, California 92121-1969 Institute for Defense Analyses 4850 Mark Center Drive Alexandria, Virginia 22311-1882 703.845.2000