Changes in SID leadership are announced. Jim Allen has resigned. There is a new SID chief of staff as well.

(Repost) Description of life in the tiny, remote tourist town of Alice Springs in Australia's outback.

(Repost) The author describes the natural beauty of Alaska and what it's like to live and work in Anchorage.

SIDtoday published two letters to the editor in response to a previous "Making SIGINT Sharable" article, about analysts giving customers direct access to raw SIGINT databases rather than writing reports. The letters express opposing views. In the first letter, the author is upset about how the rest of the "so called IC has been nibbling around NSA, trying to get more and more of our mission" and how giving customers this access is too far. The second letter is about how giving customers access to these databases "will make SIGINT far more efficient and effective."

The Korea Issue Management Team held a rock drill in Hawaii designed to test the cryptologic system's capabilities in a war on the Korean peninsula. The scenario was a North Korean attack on South Korea.

Outlines a number of changes for operations in "the first part of the 21st century." The NSA will increase the number of civilians at locations outside the Fort Meade complex, using the Denver Security Operations Center as a model.

Announcement of a seminar on tear-line reporting.

NSA closely monitored the 2004 spread of avian influenza in preparation for a possible pandemic. "As our IC colleagues have said, containing the threat of infectious disease comes down to 'detection, detection, detection. SIGINT is probably going to get it first,'" the author writes.

Three advertised openings at the National Military Joint Intelligence Center in the Pentagon come with temporary promotions and are close to "good food and great shopping."

A SIGINT Africa expert describes how an oil boom in West Africa will increase needs from SID customers to make security in the Gulf of Guinea a much higher priority.

The Customer Relationships Directorate is testing commercial customer relationship management software to coordinate and track visits to SID.

Training is required in order to pick up an escape hood.

Article lays out questions surrounding al Qaeda's involvement in the narcotics trade in Afghanistan. While there appear to be many low-level al Qaeda operatives involved in the drug trade, there is no intelligence indicating mid- or high-level operatives are involved.

The deputy director visited the Geospatial Exploitation Office, meeting with analysts and mission managers supporting the war on terror.

An employee who retired in 1997 after a 28-year NSA career returned to work after 9/11 as a "temporary employee during the national emergency."

A 90-day posting to the Iraq Survey Group in Baghdad requires knowledge of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Feedback on articles in SIDtoday includes some over-the-top positive comments.

Experts on Asia will lead an unclassified discussion titled "Northeast Asian Security: Moving Toward a Regional Security Framework?"

Readers comment on a previous story.

Anecdote about the author and his wife moving to Moscow to start a two-year intelligence tour. After a weekend spent exploring the city, they woke up Monday morning to a coup. Gorbachev was missing; Yeltsin rose to power.

The deputy director for Analysis and Production sends a message to the A&P workforce regarding upcoming efforts to strengthen language skills, manage space problems resulting from a large influx of new hires, and implement a career development board.

Personnel changes in SID Analysis and Production.

(Slightly modified repost) Description of the unique jargon used by SIGINT transcription experts, or "scribes."

Winners of the Fort Meade Language Center annual language competition are announced.

Nominations are solicited for the Sidney Award, which recognizes the most popular article published in SIDtoday's first year.

The 2004 SIGINT Development Conference opened with almost 640 delegates from around the world.

A reflection on SIDtoday, which started one year before with the prototype "SID Message of the Day."

Description of life in the tiny, remote tourist town of Alice Springs in Australia's outback.

Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz wants everyone in the DOD to apply the process of OPSEC to their daily work. The SID OPSEC Program Manager lists several upcoming trainings for personnel to attend.

The Oversight Training Webpage is on a new server and is now working.