The NSA operates massive data centers like the $2 billion Utah Data Center to process vast amounts of intelligence. It contracts companies like Cray to build supercomputers that have increased in speed from 320 million words per second in the 1970s to petaflop speeds today. The document then discusses naval capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese air force bases, and the composition and organization of the Chinese air force and air defense divisions. It concludes by mentioning the U-2 spy plane, South Korea, and South Korean air force bases.
7. This massive data digestion is made possible by Cray’s astonishing speeds, having
progressed from the 1970s supercomputer limit of 320 million words per second to
today’s petaflop speed of a thousand trillion operations per second. Bamford reported on
the advacements in a Wired piece last year, describing the NSA’s cyber expansion – which
includes the $2 billion Utah Data Center, due to open in September, and its $3 billion
addition at Fort Meade. Under a NSA contract, Cray has upgraded its Oak Ridge operation
to a warehouse-sized supercomputer called the Jaguar. It clocked in at 1.75 petaflops,
officially becoming the world’s fastest computer in 2009
8. “In the meantime,” Bamford wrote, “Cray is working on the next step for the NSA, funded in
part by a $250 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
[America’s cybercop]. It’s a massively parallel supercomputer called Cascade, a prototype of
which is due at the end of 2012 [but has been delayed]. Its development will run largely in
parallel with the unclassified effort for the DOE [Energy] and other partner agencies. That
project, due in 2013, will upgrade the Jaguar XT5 into an XK6, codenamed Titan, upping its
speed to 10 to 20 petaflops.”
13. Pacific Submarine Order of Battle
Source: “Combat Fleets of the World 2014-2015”, Naval Institute Press
TAIWAN
4
SINGAPORE
4
RUSSIA
31
IRAN
3
AUSTRALIA
6
SOUTH KOREA
15
NORTH KOREA
84
JAPAN
17
INDONESIA
2
PAKISTAN
10
INDIA
17
CHINA
65+
Over 250 Submarines in the AOR
16. The People’s Liberation Air Force
• As of 2015 the PLA Air Force had a
total strength of approximately
370,000, organized into 45 air
divisions. Among them are five
bomber divisions, 32 fighter divisions,
six attack divisions, two transport
divisions, 17 air defense divisions
[with 220,000 troops], and one
airborne army comprising three
airborne divisions with 20,000
airborne troops.
