·oENTIAL 

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 

WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 

Serial: N 0315 

l ~ .li\f'J 1961 

CONf'iDEN'ffAL 

MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR FOR COMMUNICATIONSELECTRONICS, JOINT STAFF 

SUBJECT: Communications-Electronics Technological Projection 

and Plans (U) 

l. Reference is made to the United States Communications 

Security Plan, promulgated 16 June 1960. A significant part of the 

plan is the statement of National Cryptographic Equipment Requirements (NCER) and their subdivisions. The NCERs are based, however, upon a projection of how the Military Departments and Federal 

Agencies will be communicating through 1975 from the standpoint of 

both systems concepts and technological implementation. It is apparent that the NCERs, and consequently our ability to fulfill future 

operational communications security requirements, can be no better 

than the communications-electronic projection upon which they are 

based. 

2. The establishment of NCERs, their revision, and their updating is principally the responsibility of the Director, National 

Security Agency. The projection of the communications-electronic 

environment and the formulation of communications-electronic plans 

is the responsibility of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Military 

Departments in the Department of Defense. 

3. The National Security Agency has initiated a review of the 

NCERs which are set forth in the reference. For this to be done on a 

sound basis, an essential prerequisite is the receipt of consolidated, 

~p-to-date communications-electronic technological projections and 

communications plans of the Department of Defense and the Military 

departments. It is, therefore, requested that this information be 

provided for the period covering 1960 to 1975. To ensure timely revision of the NCERs in the United States Communications Security 

Plan, this information should be forwarded to ~.:./: !"} l May 1961. 

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L. H .. FROST 

Vice Admiral, USN 

Director 

eclassified and approved for release 

y NSA on 10-24-2013 pursuant to 

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CSEC-04 

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ENG 

CSEC-06 

Serial: 'N 0315 

M/R: As pa.rt of the work required to formulate the United States 

OOMSEC Plan, it was necessary to formulate ·a technological a.rid 'communications ple.nning projection of U. S. cammunications. Considerable 

time was spent. by :NSA in discussing these matters w:L th a large number 

of mill~ and civilian establishments and in prepa.r:l.ng this proje~-. 

tion. 

To be a usefUl. document, the C<H3EC Plan must be kept up to date. 

'1'he process of reviewing the document and revising it bas been 

initiated. As part of this work, the· commun1cations-~lectron1c 

projection must be renewed and &rJ¥ necessary revisions Diaa.e. . Al.though NSA. of necessity- did all of the ape.de work and preparation 

ot the first projection, it is considered advisable to request that 

the elements of the Department of Defense responsible for this V:pe 

of prc;>jection, namely the Joint Staff and the M:l.li tar;y Departments 1 

be requested ~ provide this information. HBA could then devote its 

effort to determining ~ chanps necessa.r,r to the National Crn>tographic Equipnent Requirements (:NCEB"s) in light of tbe communications-electronic projection. Tb.is memorandum explains the part such 

a projection plays in the CCl4SEC Pla.n and requests .tbat such inf'omation be forwarded to RSA. · ·· 

Coordinated w1 th Lt. Col Anderson, CSEC-04, on 6 Janua.r.y 1961,. 

and with ·Mr. Wolfand, STED, on 9 January .196J.. · · 

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Added WR: Corrected and retyped in D/DIR's office at the request 

of Dr. Tordella. 

IC. Peterson, D/DIR's office, 3222, 19Janl961 

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