NSA chief Joshua M. Rudd wants five new departments created by mid-October, sources have told the newspaper<\/p>\n
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is launching its largest internal restructuring in at least a decade to focus on AI, China, and other pressing challenges, the Washington Post has reported, citing current and former officials.
\nThe NSA director, General Joshua M. Rudd, wants five additional organizations to be created within the agency by mid-October, with the goal that they reach full operational capacity in early 2027, the paper reported on Monday. Besides artificial intelligence and countering Beijing, they will deal with cybersecurity, combat support or warfighting, and global intelligence, according to Washington Post sources.
\nThe NSA is believed to be the largest US intelligence agency, reportedly employing some 30,000 people, both military and civilian, and specializing in digital espionage abroad and at home. It found itself in hot water in 2013 after whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a massive trove of files to the media detailing the agency\u2019s illicit surveillance of American citizens.<\/p>\n
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Since becoming NSA chief in March, Rudd has been actively integrating AI into its operations, with reports earlier this year claiming the agency had been using Anthropic\u2019s advanced Mythos model despite a federal ban and the Pentagon designating the firm a \u201csupply chain risk.\u201d
\nRudd, who also heads the US Cyber Command within the Pentagon, believes that the \u201caggressive\u201d overhaul is needed for the NSA to better suit its current and future priorities, officials said.
\nHowever, the director\u2019s announcement that the heads of the five new departments could be selected from outside the agency is \u201cunnerving NSA insiders,\u201d they noted. It\u2019s unclear if any appointments have been made so far, according to the sources.
\nThe Washington Post noted that the previous major restructuring at the spy-service, known as \u201cNSA 21,\u201d which was initiated in 2016 under then-Director Mike Rogers, has not yet been completed, despite plans to roll it out in two years.<\/p>\n
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One source said there is also no coherent plan for the current reorganization. Rudd \u201cadmitted that they don\u2019t know how they are going to do it, so they are going to rush into reversible decisions, in case it is wrong,\u201d the official stressed.
\nThe overhaul comes as Washington increasingly treats competition with China in artificial intelligence as a national security issue. Last week, the NSA, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency accused six Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek and Alibaba, of conducting \u201cindustrial-scale\u201d efforts to extract capabilities from leading US models.
\nThe US agencies acknowledged that the so-called \u2018distillation\u2019 technique is widely used in AI development, but claimed the Chinese firms had employed it to close the technology gap with their American competitors, while avoiding billions of dollars in research and computing costs. Beijing rejected the accusations as groundless and accused Washington of seeking a \u201cmonopoly of the AI industry,\u201d warning of \u201cresolute countermeasures\u201d if Chinese companies are targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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