National Security Agency Building $896.5 Million Supercomputing Center

[Marenco]

The National Security Agency is designing a new $895.6 million supercomputing center that will be constructed at its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters over the next several years, Department of Defense budget documents reveal.

The NSA's new High Performance Computing Center, slated to be complete by December 2015, will be designed to with energy efficiency, security, and lots of "state-of-the-art" computing horsepower in mind, according to unclassified specs found in the documents, which detail numerous military construction project budgets, including several NSA efforts.

http://www.informationweek.com/articles/229402009?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

[AdamT]

Just what we need. Nearly a Billion spent erasing the 4th Amendment and every shred of privacy.

[Romulus]

no where to run, no where to hide

[tangent4ronpaul]

Supercomputers are for code breaking - silly!

[politicsNproverbs]

no where to run, no where to hide

You got that right. In January PBS began airing a mini-series in collaboration with the two-years-long investigation by The Washington Post entitled, TOP SECRET AMERICA. The PBS coverage of the ***MASSIVE*** (& hugely expensive) buildings (plural!) the Feds are erecting in several places for just such purposes was spine-chilling. Below are snips & links I collected in January for my blog about that series, FWIW:


... investigative series by The Washington Post, "TOP SECRET AMERICA," which ... will air on PBS.org's FRONTLINE program Tuesday 1/18/11 @ 9pm.

FRONTLINE: Are We Safer? - Video - PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/are-we-safer/?utm_campaign=AreWeSafer...
(...)
...explores the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers, battlefield technologies, AND DATA COLLECTING into the lives of ordinary Americans.
(...)

I had only read two articles in the WaPo series so far, but these below two quotes jumped out... they reminded me of the ongoing iPhone "Mystery Data Usage" (& data harvesting) thread at the Apple Support Forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2450738
(...)
"Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency INTERCEPT and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications. The NSA sorts a fraction of those into 70 separate databases."
(...)
"Across the street, in the chocolate-brown blocks, is Carahsoft**, an intelligence agency contractor specializing in mapping, speech analysis and DATA HARVESTING."
(...)

Above two quotes from:

7/19/10: "A hidden world, growing beyond control" - washingtonpost.com:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world...
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All of the above from an investigative series by The Washinton Post entitled: "TOP SECRET AMERICA":

Homepage:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

"A note on this project" - washingtonpost.com:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/editors-note/

"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
(...)
Within a responsible framework, our objective is to provide as much information as possible, so readers gain a real, granular understanding of the scale and breadth of the top-secret world we are describing. We look forward to your feedback and can be reached at: topsecretamerica@washpost.com

"TALK TO US: Want to contribute to this ongoing project?":
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/tip/articles/editors-note/
(...)

More info you will find at the WaPo Top Secret America homepage:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

PART 1: JULY 19, 2010
A hidden world, growing beyond control
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world...

Photo gallery: An alternative geography
July 18, 2010

DECEMBER 20, 2010
Monitoring America
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-ame...

Photo gallery: Counterterrorism on Main Street
Dec. 20, 2010

PART 2: JULY 20, 2010
National Security Inc.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/national-secur...

Photo gallery: The role of private contractors
July 20, 2010

PART 3: JULY 21, 2010
The secrets next door
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/secrets-next-d...


Etc. Etc.