NSA ANNOUNCES POWER UPGRADES PROJECT
 
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:52:51 -0600 (CST)


NSA ANNOUNCES POWER UPGRADES PROJECT

The National Security Agency published a notice today describing
its Power Upgrades Project, which is intended to meet the Agency's
growing demand for electrical power and to replace aging electrical
infrastructure.

"The proposed utility upgrades would allow for 100 percent
self-contained redundancy, should off-site power sources fail,"

according to the January 2 Federal Register notice.

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2008/01/ftmeade.html

"The demand for electricity to operate its expanding intelligence
systems has left the high-tech eavesdropping agency on the verge
of exceeding its power supply," reported Siobhan Gorman in the
Baltimore Sun on August 6, 2006.

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