Meet the contractors analyzing your private data
Booz Allen Hamilton
But once the data is downloaded  it has to be analyzed. And thatâs where  Booz  and the other contractors that surround the NSA come in.
 Booz Allen Hamilton  is one of the NSAâs most important and trusted contractors. Itâs involved in virtually every aspect of intelligence and surveillance  from advising top officials on how to integrate the 16 U.S. spy agencies to detailed analysis of signals intelligence  imagery and other critical collections technologies. I first introduced Boozâs intelligence business in a 2007 profile in Salon when President Bush appointed Michael McConnell  a Booz veteran and former NSA director  to be director of national intelligence ( he âs now back at  Booz ).
Among other secret projects   Booz  was deeply involved in âTotal Information Awareness â the controversial data-mining project run for the Bush administration by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter that was outlawed by Congress in 2003.
Another major presence at NSAâs Business Park is SAIC. Like  Booz   it stands like a private colossus across the whole intelligence industry. Of its 42 000 employees  more than 20 000 hold U.S. government security clearances  making it one of the largest private intelligence services in the world. âSAIC provides a full suite of intelligence  surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and cybersecurity solutions across a broad spectrum of national security programs â it claims on its website.
But once the data is downloaded  it has to be analyzed. And thatâs where  Booz  and the other contractors that surround the NSA come in.
  [TGT] is one of the NSAâs most important and trusted contractors.  [TGT]  involved in virtually every aspect of intelligence and surveillance  from advising top officials on how to integrate the 16 U.S. spy agencies to detailed analysis of signals intelligence  imagery and other critical collections technologies. I first introduced Boozâs intelligence business in a 2007 profile in Salon when President Bush appointed Michael McConnell  a Booz veteran and former NSA director  to be director of national intelligence ( he âs now back at  Booz ).
Among other secret projects   Booz  was deeply involved in âTotal Information Awareness â the controversial data-mining project run for the Bush administration by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter that was outlawed by Congress in 2003.
Another major presence at NSAâs Business Park is SAIC. Like  Booz   it stands like a private colossus across the whole intelligence industry. Of its 42 000 employees  more than 20 000 hold U.S. government security clearances  making it one of the largest private intelligence services in the world. âSAIC provides a full suite of intelligence  surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and cybersecurity solutions across a broad spectrum of national security programs â it claims on its website.