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(C) TICKETWINDOW: Second Party Collection Sharing
FROM:
Chief of the Collection Forwarding & Outages (S3C32) and Initial Flow
Management (S3C33) Branches
Run Date: 11/07/2003
(S//SI//REL USA, CAN, GBR, AUS, NZL) How much data is shared
SERIES:
with our Partners? How productive is the sharing? When Data
(U//FOUO) Second Party
Acquisition researched these questions, they learned that NSA
SIGINT Cooperation
collects much data that is not shared with partners due to security
classifications. This inhibited the amount of reporting Partners were
able to generate on their targets of interest, and put additional
1. SIGINT Directors Set
stress on NSA reporters to generate reports on these targets.
Strategic Direction
TICKETWINDOW was developed to enable analysts/reporters to
for 5-Eyes SIGINT
evaluate all traffic on their targets.
Enterprise
2. Communications
(U//FOUO) What is TICKETWINDOW? Simply put, TICKETWINDOW
Security
is the sharing of sensitive-source collection with Partners; the
Establishment (CSE)
exchange of sensitive source data that had not been shared with
- Our Good Neighbor
Partners under normal circumstances. This project has made
to the North
excellent SIGINT available to the International Intelligence
3. JESI: Don't Lose
Community, enabling many product reports to be written that
That Number!
would not have been otherwise available.
4. How SIGINT's Done
Down Under!
(S//SI//REL USA, CAN, GBR, AUS, NZL) Data Acquisition
5. SIGINT Directors to
established TICKETWINDOW in 1999 to enable reciprocal data
Collaborate Virtually
sharing with our Second Party partners without revealing sensitive
6. SID 's Antipodal
collection sources and methods. In August of that year, NSAW
Colleagues
began sharing sensitive source voice data with GCHQ and has since
7. TICKETWINDOW:
expanded the sharing to all Second Party Partners and increased
Second Party
the data types exchanged. NSA also receives TICKETWINDOW
Collection Sharing
collection from Second Parties that are able to participate at this
8. The Kiwi Connection
time. (Each partner has indicated a willingness to participate once
- Fellowship of the
capabilities are developed.) All Second Party Partners are not
Ring?
sharing as much with NSA, but the exchanges continue to expand.
Many Partners also have bi-lateral agreements with other Partners
for mutual exchanges, making TICKETWINDOW truly an
international effort!
(S//SI//REL USA, CAN, GBR, AUS, NZL) TICKETWINDOW is a data
sharing success story. Each Second Party Partner has been able to
increase the number of intelligence products written each month
because of TICKETWINDOW traffic. New sources from our Partners
have helped NSA be more productive, while DSD reports that more
than 40% of their product reporting is now from TICKETWINDOW
collection, particularly from NSA collection. Both GCHQ and CSE
have doubled their output of TICKETWINDOW-based reports in the
last year. This increased production is the result of improved
tasking awareness made possible through the TICKETWINDOW
partnerships. Continued sharing will yield even greater rewards.
(U) Organizational Roles :
(S//SI) The Current Operations Division and the Data Flow &
Collection Division of the Collection Strategies and Requirements
Center (CSRC) perform the tasking and data flow functions of the
project.
The Current Operations Division performs cross-program
management for TICKETWINDOW, assuring that all US sources,
including sensitive collection sources, are considered for satisfying
partner requirements, in addition to responding to partner
questions regarding US requirements being satisfied using their
resources.
The Data Flow & Collection Forwarding Division ensures that
proper data review is maintained for each data type shared, to
ensure that sensitive sources and methods are not revealed.
(S//SI) The Partners are considering the of use a similar model to
manage their TICKETWINDOW exchanges.
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without the consent of S0121 (DL sid comms)."
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