Darla Trigger

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NSA Readiness Process

• Darla Trigger
• NSA Corporate Readiness Assessment Chief
• 30 March 2010

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AGENDA

• Deficiency Status
• Readiness Process Automated
• Mitigation Process
• CSART Finding
• AMETL revision
• Measures and Standards

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AGENDA

• Status of JFRR Submitted Deficiency
• Shortages in Manpower/Adequately skilled
  personnel
• Being Briefed up to Congress

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Readiness Process

• Created a Readiness Assessment Tool on NSANet
• Accessible by all 31 Readiness Contributors who
• submit their Quarterly Readiness Assessment
  report
• rate their AMETs
• enter their Deficiencies and Concerns
• Accessible by all 8 NSA Investment Portfolio
  Managers who
• review all Readiness Deficiencies and Concerns
• provide mitigations to contributors via tool
• Data in tool allows the Readiness Office to
  summarize ratings and deficiencies and concerns
  for the JFRR

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Mitigation Process
1 Apr Send out Tasker to IPs to adjudiacte
Deficiencies and Concerns
1 Feb Send out RA Tasker to Readiness Reporting
Organization
BR
1 Mar Document Deficiencies and Concerns
Mitigation Responses Viewable in RA Tool and BR4
Webpage
Contributors
30 Apr Adjudicate Deficiencies and Concerns
Investment Portfolios
2010
February
March
April
May
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AMET Changes

• CSART Finding 7
• NSA/CSS AMETL not granualar enough
• Developing a new AMETL relative to AMET 1
• Scheduled to complete for 01-11 RA Cycle
• Measures and Standards continue to be a push

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Questions