IA Responsibility

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII) tasked the National Security Agency with developing an end-to-end IA perspective for the GIG. The NSA established the GIG IA Special Program Office (SPO) to initiate efforts to develop an IA component of the GIG integrated architecture as well as a supporting set of IA guidance, standards, requirements, and policy.

NSA is staffing the GIG IA SPO to provide IA guidance to the major GIG programs as well as to NSA's internal cross-cutting IA initiatives that feed directly into the major GIG programs. In addition, the SPO will help steer NSA's IA research partnerships and industry outreach programs toward a common GIG vision to ensure seamless interoperation of products and to ensure that the GIG IA technology gaps are "plugged."