National Security Operations Center

National Security Operations Center (NSOC) in 2012

The National Security Operations Center (NSOC) or Directorate K is the part of the United States National Security Agency responsible for current operations and time-sensitive signals intelligence (SIGINT) reporting for the United States SIGINT System (USSS).[1] It is one of two centers watching; the other being Directorate V or the NTOC which assesses threats.

  1. ^ Cryptologic Spectrum: "The National SIGINT Operations Center", Summer 1979 - Vol. 9, No. 3 Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine