CIA, FBI developing intelligence supercomputer

After months of criticism that they do not work well together, the CIA and FBI have begun jointly developing a new supercomputer system designed to improve their ability to both cull and share information.

FEBRUARY 12, 2002

https://www.govexec.com/defense/2002/02/cia-fbi-developing-intelligence-supercomputer/11050/

Utilizing the types of supercomputers already used by private industry to conduct marketing research, the CIA, FBI and other investigative agencies should be able to move beyond Counterintelligence-21–an information-sharing system now being used but already considered outdated, analysts said. The new system would take advantage of a faster, more comprehensive database, they said.

The new system under development should "meet the needs of all the consumers," the U.S. official said. "A lot of it is driven by [Homeland Security Director] Tom Ridge's office. It's something [CIA and FBI officials are] working on continuously. They're continuously meeting, discussing and designing the new database."

"It's been the topic of discussion" during meetings between Ridge and President Bush, Johndroe said.

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https://news.clearancejobs.com/2013/03/04/top-5-intelligence-agency-supercomputers-2/

VESUVIUS

The most powerful computer of them all is located at a $2 billion complex in the middle of the Utah desert. The exact details of what can be found at the NSA’s Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center are hazy, though whatever is in there is really big. The facility consumes a staggering 65 megawatts of electricity—about half as much as the Hadron Super Collider—and since the NSA isn’t in the particle acceleration business, that probably means raw computing power. Reportedly, the data center houses a supercomputer codenamed Vesuvius, which might well be a quantum computer. Such a machine would be able to execute 100 undecillion (that’s a one with 38 zeroes behind it) calculations at once, which means it’s almost powerful enough to run the video game Crysis at maximum detail settings. It also means it could theoretically brute force PGP, a data encryption system with no known vulnerabilities. (Even with the most theoretically powerful conventional supercomputer, it would take right at 10 trillion years to break PGP. For sake of comparison, the universe itself is only 13 billion years old.)

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ThinThread Whistleblowers

Thomas Drake, William Binney, and J. Kirk Wiebe

https://whistleblower.org/whistleblower-profiles/thinthread-whistleblowers/

Former United States National Security Agency (NSA) workers William Binney, Thomas Drake, Ed Loomis, and J. Kirk Wiebe believed ThinThread, an in-house electronic surveillance data collection system, which was both cost-effective and protective of American citizens’ privacy rights, was wrongly rejected in favor of Trailblazer, a conceptually similar program created by NSA contractors for billions of dollars. Loomis, Wiebe, and Binney led the design of ThinThread at a mere $3.2 million cost. But they were all also concerned that the NSA’s umbrella mass surveillance program, STELLARWIND, would violate constitutional protections. Drake also raised concerns about massive 9/11 intelligence failures. After lodging individual internal complaints, testifying to Congressional committees, and drafting collective motions, members of the group protested resignations and leaked unclassified information to media. A May 2006 article in The Baltimore Sun (primarily sourced by Drake) detailed the failings of the NSA and Trailblazer.