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Colonel, USAF 

Deputy Di.rector, 

CODlre.unications Securi~J 

Declassified and approved for release by NSA on 01-30-2014 pursuantto E.O. 1352a 

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SEGRET 

THE 

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MATERIEL PROGRAM 

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PART I - Current Equipments and Mid - Rc1nge 

Development 

PART II - Current Cryptomaterial Production 

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SECRET 

THE 

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COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY 

" MATERIEL PROGRAM 

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PART I - Current Equipments and Mid - Range 

Development 

PART II - Current Cryptomaterial Production 

SEPTEMBER 1954 

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 

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September 1954 

FOREWORD 

The Th.rector, National Security Agency, has the responsibility for 

formulating, for consideration by the Board, integrated programs for 

the research, development, production, and procurement necessary to 

meet the requirements of the departments and agencies for cryptoequipments and materials. 

In accordance with this responsibility, the program contained herein has been compiled by NSA and approved by the USCSB as a basis 

upon which to construct detailed implementation plans. For practical 

reasons, this 1mbal statement 1s the current NSA program and does 

not reflect all of the special reqmrements of the c1v1l agencies nor the 

production capacity of any agency other than NSA. Future statements 

of the program will be more comprehensive. 

Comments and suggestions on the program content and presentation 

are welcome at any time. 

s E c 

RALPH J. CANINE 

Lieutenant General, US Army 

Director 

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INTRODUCTION 

1 This program shows the prmcipal requirements of the government for communications security materials, the NSA product10n 

capabibties available to meet them, and outlmes the eqmpments available m production or under development to fulfill existmg and projected 

needs 

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The program consists of three parts as follows 

Current Equipments and Mid-Range Development (1954-1959) 

Current NSA Cryptomaterial Product10n (1954-1956) 

Long Range Commumcat10ns Security Eqmpment Plan (1954-

The portion presented here consists of Parts I and II Part 

III is m preparation and will be submitted when completed 

3 The program is based upon the assumptions that peacetime 

condit10ns will prevail, that the government will contmue its present 

high level of mternahonal ach vity, support of mternahonal forces, and 

assistance to those countries opposed to communism, and that no sigmflcant change will be reqmred m operations to absorb the m1hal impact of war 

4 The ob3echves of the program are 

a To assure the product10n of the cryptomaterial required 

(1) By departments and agencies for operatmg their coms E c R E 
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mun1cahons security programs. 

(2) To meet the U S share of mternahonal communications security requirements (NATO, U K , etc ) 

b To build a reserve of both produced material and production capacity sufficient to meet the impact of full mob1l1zat10n. 

c To develop or m1hate the development of a mm1mum of 

one communications security equipment for each of the 

important methods of communication 

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PART I - CURRENT EQUIPMENTS AND MID- RANGE DEVELOPMENT 

1 Communications security equipments are, of course, basic to 

NSA's program for prov1dmg overall support to the national communications security effort. The types of eqmpment currently m use and the 

extent of that usage determme directly the type and volume of keymg 

material which must be procured S1m1lar ly, the types of eqmpment 

currently under development determme the trend which that production 

will take m the future 

2 The current equipment and mid-range development program is 

shown m the followmg Chart I It covers the prmc1pal equipments now 

m use and under development It has been hm1ted to equipments conceivably of use to both c1v1l and military Federal agencies and departments The chart, which is organized on the basis of the maJor communication fields m which security is needed, shows the eqmpment available or under development to fill the need, the prmc1pal types of 

usmg agencies, the echelons of usage, and its status durmg the 5-year 

per10d. 

3 The detail of a typical program, and one of the prmc1pal current ones, for gettmg new equipment mto use is shown m Chart II This 

shows the planned rates for the production and d1str1buhon of new hteral electro-mechanical crypto-eqmpments for all echelons (AFSAM 7 

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and AFSAM 47B) and the rotors used m them. Similar detailed charts 

will be added to the program as equipments progress from development 

to production. 

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IMPLEMENTATION OF ADONIS/POLLUX PROGRAM 

CHART II 

Equipments Red Rotors 

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equipments to using units 

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by Services to d1stnbute processed rotors 

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PART II - CURRENT CRYPTOMATERIAL PRODUCTION 

1 PRODUCTION - The production of cryptomaterial to support 

the government's commumcahons security activities constitutes a ma3or segment of this program The types of cryptomatenal which constitute the bulk of the production activity are one-time tapes (Chart III) 

one-time pads (Chart IV), rotors (Chart V), key list (Chart VI), codes 

(Chart VII), and mstruct10nal documents (Chart VIII) 

2 Summarized, the situat10n is 

a All operatmg requirements placed on NSA are met from 

product10n capacity currently available to NSA 

b Cryptomatenal for mobihzabon reserve requirements 

placed on NSA is bemg produced by NSA and will be mamtamed durmg 

the 5-year per10d to meet varymg requirements Increases m production capacity are planned mamly by improvements m methods and production equipment, and m utihzat10n of plant capacity 

NOTE 1 Operatmg requirements mcluded m the followmg charts 

mdicate that material requested of NSA to meet the current needs of the var10us U S Departments and Agencies 

as well as those mternational requirements for which 

NSA is responsible 

2 The Mobilization Reserve requirement is based on the 

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mob1hzat10n needs of the users and the ab1hty of NSA to 

meet these needs, 1 e , a stock-pile of keying material 

to assure a contmual supply of materials from M-Day to 

P-Day (P-Day bemg "product10n day" or that time when 

it is anticipated that war time needs can be met on a current basis) Mob1hzat10n reserves of cryptomaterials 

produced differ m each case due to operating requirements, planned rate of supersess10n, and probability of 

compromise The Mobihzahon Reserve requirement, 

together with the Operatmg reqmrement, comprises the 

Total requirement mdicated on the charts. 

3 The Planned Production indicated is based on a gradual 

buildup m those areas where a mob1hzation reserve is 

considered necessary with a goal of attammg this pomt 

at the earliest practicable date and, from there on, mamtammg a level of production to provide the needs of the 

consumers on a current basis 

These charts cover those reqmrements for cryptomaterial requested of NSA and the NSA production available to meet them. 

However, a detailed survey of all US requirements for cryptomaterial, as well as all production capacity available to the U S , 

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is bemg made The next rev1s10n of the program will md1cate 

total requirements and total U S production capacity available 

It is planned, to then prepare, for nat10nal emergency use, a 

method for utihzmg any production capacity which is m excess 

of a user's mternal reqmrements 

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ESTIMATED TOT.AL REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED 

NSA PRODUCTION OF ONE-TIME T.APES 

(Expressed In Terms Of 3" Rolls) 

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NSA FY-54 PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF ONE-TIME TAPES 

(Expressed In Terms Of 3" Rolls) 

CHART III B 

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ESTIMATED TOTAL REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED NSA PRODUCTION 

OF ONE-TIME PADS (ALL TYPES) 

CHART IV A 

Pads 

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NSA FY-1954 PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF 

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ESTIMATED TOTAL REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED NSA PRODUCTION 

OF ROTORS (ALL TYPES) 

CHART VA 

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NSA FY-54 PERCENTAGE DIS'mIBUTION OF ROTORS 

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ESTIMATED TOTAL REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED NSA PRODUCTION OF KEY LISTS 

(Expressed in Terms of 3 Page Documents) 

CHART VI A 

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NSA FY-1954 PERCENTAGE DIS'mIBUTIOJf OF KEY LISTS 

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I EST~~ATED TOTAL REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED NSA PRODUCTION OF CODES 

(Expressed in Terms of 16 Page Documents) 

CHART VII A I 

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NSA FY-54 PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION 

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ESTIMATED Tar AL REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED NSA PRODUCTION 

OF GENERAL INSTRUCTIONAL DOCUMENTS 

(Expressed in Terms of .'.32 Page Documents) 

CHART VIII A 

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NSA FY-1954 PERCENTAGE DISl'RIBl1.rION 

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