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AURORAGOLD project overview (2011)
Dec. 4, 2014
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
(S//SI//REL) Project Overview: The mission of the AURORAGOLD (AG) project is to maintain
data about international GSM/UMTS networks for the Wireless Portfolio Program Office
(WPMO), the Target Technology Trends Center (T3C/SSG4), and their customers. Analysis of this
data supports:
a) An understanding of the current state,
b) Trending, or time-series analysis, from the past through to the future, and
c) Forecasting of the evolution of global GSM/UMTS-based networks.
This analysis and developmental activity is currently focusing only on GSM/UMTS infrastructure,
voice-data convergence, UMTS technology migration, and UMTS technology deployments.
Coincident beneficiaries of this mission are, among others, other NSA SIGDEV elements, protocol
exploitation elements, and Five-Eyes Partner SIGDEV organizations.
(C//REL) Alignment: Supports NSA’s and SID’s imperative to “Know the Future.”
(C//REL) Sponsors: WPMO/S3W
(C//REL) Customers: WPMO/S3W; T3C/SSG4; Various S3 collections organizations;
numerous IC organizations
(C//REL) Architecture and Infrastructure: Custom-built application based on OZONE
framework, using GOLDENCARRIAGE corporate servers for all application and data
storage
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
(S//SI//REL) Project Overview: The mission of the AURORAGOLD (AG) project is to maintain
data about international GSM/UMTS networks for the Wireless Portfolio Program Office
(WPMO), the Target Technology Trends Center (T3C/SSG4), and their customers. Analysis of this
data supports:
a) An understanding of the current state,
b) Trending, or time-series analysis, from the past through to the future, and
c) Forecasting of the evolution of global GSM/UMTS-based networks.
This analysis and developmental activity is currently focusing only on GSM/UMTS infrastructure,
voice-data convergence, UMTS technology migration, and UMTS technology deployments.
Coincident beneficiaries of this mission are, among others, other NSA SIGDEV elements, protocol
exploitation elements, and Five-Eyes Partner SIGDEV organizations.
(C//REL) Alignment: Supports NSA’s and SID’s imperative to “Know the Future.”
(C//REL) Sponsors: WPMO/S3W
(C//REL) Customers: WPMO/S3W; T3C/SSG4; Various S3 collections organizations;
numerous IC organizations
(C//REL) Architecture and Infrastructure: Custom-built application based on OZONE
framework, using GOLDENCARRIAGE corporate servers for all application and data
storage
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
(S//SI//REL) Corpus:
Will contain:
• Unclassified: Complete replica of Informa Telecoms and Media’s World Cellular Information Service
(WCIS) queryable database to eventually compare data against that collected from SIGINT
• Classified: SIGINT-collected IR.21 (International Roaming agreements) documents from around the
world, parsed of their information, analyzed, and giving users the ability to trend this information
over time (time-series analysis). In addition, e-mail selectors from within IR.21s and from SIGINT
metadata captured, analyzed and managed back into the SIGINT system for enhanced collection
(C//REL) Content:
• Portion of the WCIS data available via NSANet GUI; remainder to be completed within 2-3 months
• Currently, Phase 1 contains a small database of worldwide wireless networks being compared
against IR.21s from SIGINT to establish our “baseline”
(C//REL) Capabilities:
• Soon, complete WCIS repository to be copied to NSANet for querying by all NSA and 2P
Partners
• Later, agile querying through entire IR.21 and WCIS databases, with capability to perform timeseries analysis via visualization application
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
(S//SI//REL) Corpus:
Will contain:
• Unclassified: Complete replica of Informa Telecoms and Media’s World Cellular Information Service
(WCIS) queryable database to eventually compare data against that collected from SIGINT
• Classified: SIGINT-collected IR.21 (International Roaming agreements) documents from around the
world, parsed of their information, analyzed, and giving users the ability to trend this information
over time (time-series analysis). In addition, e-mail selectors from within IR.21s and from SIGINT
metadata captured, analyzed and managed back into the SIGINT system for enhanced collection
(C//REL) Content:
• Portion of the WCIS data available via NSANet GUI; remainder to be completed within 2-3 months
• Currently, Phase 1 contains a small database of worldwide wireless networks being compared
against IR.21s from SIGINT to establish our “baseline”
(C//REL) Capabilities:
• Soon, complete WCIS repository to be copied to NSANet for querying by all NSA and 2P
Partners
• Later, agile querying through entire IR.21 and WCIS databases, with capability to perform timeseries analysis via visualization application
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD Repository
License Spectrum
Network Features
Handsets & Devices
Networks & Suppliers
License
Network Coverage
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD Repository
License Spectrum
Network Features
Handsets & Devices
Networks & Suppliers
License
Network Coverage
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
(C//REL) Demonstration Script
• (Only capability currently available is basic querying against small portion of WCIS database)
• Go to
• Click on any of the brown boxes
• Select your search criteria
• Select your query result criteria
• Click “Submit”
• View the results
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
(C//REL) Demonstration Script
• (Only capability currently available is basic querying against small portion of WCIS database)
• Go to
• Click on any of the brown boxes
• Select your search criteria
• Select your query result criteria
• Click “Submit”
• View the results
CONFIDENTIAL//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL