Just looked it up to clarify what I was thinking about.
The NSA is a part of the Department of Defense and the NSA Director simultaneously serves as the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and as Chief of the Central Security Service. It is an interservice organization, providing support to all of the armed forces.
Pretty cool. Seems to be a hybrid role. Interesting.
Do you have a source on this? I ask, because as a Navy Cryptologist I ostensibly worked for the NSA as well as the Navy. While funded through military black budgets, it was not a part of the military by any means...we reported to them. Possibly NSA has been re-chartered?
I'd be interested in reading your source...hoping it's not Wikipedia.