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(S//SI//REL) Collaboration in Overdrive: A CNE Success
FROM: multiple authors in International Security Issues (S2C)
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Run Date: 11/13/2006
(TS//SI//REL) First-ever Computer Network Exploitation success against Turkish leadership is
achieved.
(TS//SI//REL) Two heads are better than one, right? Well SIGINT development (SIGDEV) is
living proof that collaboration really is efficient! SIGDEV analysts and target office elements
(TOPI) within International Security Issues (ISI), with lots of help from their friends in SIGINT
Strategy and Governance (SSG) and the Tailored Access Office (TAO), did something they'd
never accomplished before; they achieved their first-ever computer network exploitation success
against Turkish leadership! This successful process will serve as the prototype for future SIGINT
target development efforts in ISI.
(S//SI//REL) The process of target development seems obvious enough, but this group added
extreme collaboration to target templating and ended up with a winning combination. The ISI
SIGDEV/TOPI effort focused development by identifying a 90-day surge team comprising
SIGDEV, TOPI, SSG analysts (templating) and TAO. The team then employed target templating
methodology to create a strategic action plan. This methodology served to focus exploitation
efforts, research, analysis and collection planning. The data-visualization tool, CMAP, facilitated
collaboration across organizations and was used to document the team's analytic efforts, target
information, and foster an environment of analytic exchange and data sharing.
(TS//SI//REL) See the Turkish Surge Project Plan .
(C//SI//REL) The result was success in collecting communications-of-interest within 180 days
from the implementation of the action plan to actual collection of the intended target and
reporting of intelligence information! Because of the detailed nature of the documentation
produced through this methodology, all pertinent players were able to carry out their role
efficiently and to great effect.
(U//FOUO) Authors:
ISI Operations Staff (S2C09)
Europe, Strategic Partnerships & Energy SIGINT Development (S2C13)
(S2C13)
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