After two years, the NSA finished rebidding its “Groundbreaker” program and is beginning work on a secretive new set of communications contracts.
The National Security Agency is quietly beginning work on a new series of three communications contracts valued at $6.7 billion.
Details are sparse because the classified contracts—collectively called Greenway—were secretly awarded to telecommunications giant AT&T and defense contractors General Dynamics and ManTech International over the past year. Redacted legal documents following a protest of one of the contracts in March indicate the NSA’s goal is to “technically evolve” its IT environment.
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WNU editor: I am not sure if this decision to outsource the agency’s IT operations to industry is the right move. Past NSA's leaks came from people who work in private sector, and they have been incredibly damaging (i.e. Edward Snowden). And while I do understand the cost saving measures and the need to focus on what is your core mission (in the NSA's case it is signal intelligence and protecting America), I am not convinced that when it comes to national security measures this is the policy that should be followed.