NSA News & Highlights

Frincke

Dec. 17, 2019

NSA Research Director Named As First NSA ACM Fellows Recipient

FT. MEADE, Md. — The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, names NSA Research Director Dr. Deborah Frincke as a 2019 ACM Fellow. She is the first NSA employee to receive the honor.

HackGT

Dec. 16, 2019

NSA Georgia Research Raises the Stakes at HackGT

ATLANTA — For the first time, NSA presented challenges and awarded prizes at HackGT, an annual 36 hour hackathon with more than 1,000 students from more than 80 universities in October 2019, located at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Brookdale Community College was among the academic institutions recognized during the November 2019 NICE conference. Left to right - Diane M. Janosek, Dr. David Stout - President, Brookdale Community College, Michael Quissaunee - Chair and Professor, Engineering and Technology Department, and Keith Holternmann, Chief Learning Officer, Cybersecurity an Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA/DHS).

Dec. 13, 2019

NSA congratulates Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE)

FORT MEADE, Md. — Article about NSA celebrating the designation and re-designation of 58 academic institutions as Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) at the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) conference in Phoenix, Arizona on 20 November 2019.

Dec. 12, 2019

NSA Statement on NSA Inspector General Special Study

FORT MEADE, Md. — NSA Statement on NSA Inspector General Special Study of NSA Controls to Comply with Signals Intelligence Retention Requirements (12 December 2019).

2019 R&D 100 Winner

Dec. 5, 2019

Ghidra Roars into World Recognition!

FT. MEADE, Md. — The open source version of Ghidra, the NSA Research-developed software reverse engineering (SRE) framework, was awarded the highly-acclaimed 2019 R&D 100 Award! Ghidra was created in the late 1990s and has been a longstanding contributor to NSA’s Cybersecurity mission. With its public release, Ghidra’s sphere of influence has dramatically increased.

Navy cruiser gun crews

Nov. 27, 2019

History highlight: World War II cryptologist serving in the Women's Army Corps

FT. MEADE, Md. — President Trump recently declared November as National Veterans and Military Families month. This month, the National Security Agency has featured a short history series that highlights the contributions of some lesser known cryptologic heroes. This week is the final segment in our three-part series. This week's edition features the story of a World War II cryptologist serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC).

Photo of U.S. Army Major Major Clarence Yamagata, pictured here while he was a lieutenant.

Nov. 19, 2019

History highlight: A living language resource

FORT MEADE, Md. — National Veterans and Military Families month article about World War II linguist Clarence Yamagata.

Sarah Eddy

Nov. 14, 2019

NSA Inspires the Girl Scouts on Their Way to the Moon

FT. MEADE, Md. — On 19 October, more than 250 Girl Scouts gathered in Hunt Valley, Md. to put their leadership and cybersecurity skills to the test at the inaugural Girl Scouts Cyber Challenge. Their quest was clear: The world’s first moon colony had been hacked, and now they must form an incident response team to determine who hacked their systems and how to stop them. 

Field intercept operator, World War I (National Archives)

Nov. 13, 2019

History highlight: Not a job for a nervous man

FORT MEADE, Md. — Article highlighting the story of a World War I radio intercept operator in honor of National Veterans and Military Families month 2019.

NSA Cryptologic Hall of Honor 2019

Nov. 13, 2019

Four Celebrated in Cryptologic Hall of Honor Ceremony

FORT MEADE, Md. — The National Security Agency celebrated its 67th birthday Monday, November 4 by honoring four