Use this version. The agency might expand Groundbreaker to make it a global effort, and NSA will continue studying other areas for potential outsourcing, according to Harry Gatanas, the agency s senior acquisition executive. As the signals intelligence arm of the Pentagon s intelligence apparatus, NSA is responsible for intercepting and analyzing an array of foreign military and national security-related communications worldwide. It includes an online storage capacity equal to the Library of Congress and the computational power of the combined strength of BellSouth Corp. and Sprint.
Groundbreaker is truly big.
We re in source selection right now. Our publicized contract award date is July. We ll try to make that sooner, if possible. Eventually, we ll want to take Groundbreaker global. Gatanas could not discuss specifics but said the agency will study potentially outsourcing general support areas.