Report on Analytic Modernization Outreach Campaign's Success

Document Date: April 13, 2012
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Agency: Press
Document Type: Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Legal Authority: Executive Order 12333
Records Collected: Internet Metadata, Internet Content

NSA memo detailing the success of the Analytic Modernization Outreach Campaign, an XKEYSCORE (XKS) training program designed to expose analysts to one-on-one sessions in a circuit-training program. XKEYSCORE gives the NSA the widest-reaching collection of online data (emails, social media, and browsing history) without prior authorization for searches. The training aims to increase student proficiency on basic queries, metadata setup and manipulation, and content and manipulation results while also moving beyond traditional targeting where analysts had to sift through wide nets of data. The training allows analysts to take XKS to the next level and "do with [it] whatever [they] like".