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http://www.govexec.com/magazine/features/2013/08/nsas-big-dig/67751/
Effective URL:
https://www.govexec.com/magazine/features/2013/08/nsas-big-dig/67751/
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IT’S NO SECRET THAT HARVEY DAVIS HAS A SENSITIVE JOB BUILDING MASSIVE SPY DATA
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He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees
construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times
the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and Jets. Long Island
native Harvey Davis, a top National Security Agency official, needs that
commanding presence. His role is to supervise infrastructure construction
worldwide for NSA, which is part of the Defense Department. That involves
tending to logistics, military installations, as well as power, space and
cooling for all NSA data centers. 

In May, crews broke ground on a $792 million computing center at the agency’s
headquarters near Baltimore that will complement the Utah site. Together the
Utah center and Maryland’s 28-acre computer farm span 228 acres—more than seven
times the size of the Pentagon. 

During an interview with Government Executive in June, amid the uproar over
leaked details of NSA’s domestic espionage activities, Davis describes the
200-acre Utah facility as very transparent: “Only brick and mortar.” A data
center just provides energy and chills machines, he says. 

About 6,500 contractors, along with more than 150 Army Corps of Engineers and
NSA workers, including some with special needs, are assigned to the project.
Davis perks up when he talks about the hundreds of individuals with disabilities
he has steered into NSA.

But ask him why the facility is so big and what’s inside, and he is less
forthcoming. “I think we’re crossing into content. It’s big because it’s
required to be big,” says Davis, a 30-year veteran of the spy agency.

At NSA, secrecy is not exclusive to intelligence analysts. Every civil servant
in the Installations and Logistics Directorate Davis leads has a security
clearance. He earned his in the early 1980s, entering the agency with a master’s
degree in business administration, experience managing inventory for a women’s
apparel chain, and a yearning for a higher calling than retail. 

For security reasons, some of the contractors erecting the data center don’t
even know its purpose, other than the equipment needed—nothing about snooping.
The 2010 public work solicitation called for a 65-megawatt center with a chiller
plant, fire suppression systems, electrical generators and an uninterruptible
power supply backup capacity.

Davis lets out that inside there will be supercomputers, or what NSA labels
“high performance computers.” These need “different cooling and different power
distributions as opposed to something you bought from Best Buy,” he says. The
machines, along with whatever other technology is tucked in the facility, are
slated to power on by Oct. 1.

Four years ago, the stated purpose of the megaplex near Salt Lake City was to
amass foreign intelligence and warnings about hackers.  Officials described it
as an extension of President George W. Bush’s 2008 Comprehensive National
Cybersecurity Initiative, a largely classified, cross-agency program to protect
U.S. computer networks against adversaries. Today, it is evident the data
plantation will not be linked to any one program. Instead, the systems inside
will warehouse counterterrorism information collected in aggregate, including
millions of Americans’ phone logs for five years and certain foreigners’ online
messages, NSA officials confirm. Spies at other locations will decipher what’s
accumulated to thwart terrorist attacks, cyber assaults, and weapons of mass
destruction.

The Utah effort is the largest ongoing Defense construction project in the
United States. Still, it is only three-quarters the size of the department’s
largest in the world—the Medical Center Replacement Project at Rhine Ordnance
Barracks, Germany.

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Davis is reluctant to discuss the ratio of contractors to civil service
employees in Utah—a week after The Guardian and The Washington Post have
reported an NSA contractor leaked Top Secret documents. Prosecutors are pursuing
former Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden for exposing files about
PRISM, the agency’s foreign Internet surveillance program, and domestic call
data-monitoring while he was administering NSA data systems in Hawaii. 

Compared with the 6,500 contract employees, “there is a smaller number of people
on my core project management team,” Davis says. An agency official in the room
adds: “We can talk in total numbers here . . . We can’t get into how many are
ours, how many are theirs.” 

A few days after the interview, when asked why NSA’s reliance on contractors is
hush-hush, agency officials released some figures.  Ten people are on Davis’
core team. About 150 employees from the Army Corps of Engineers, along with an
undisclosed number of employees from the 1,000-member Installations and
Logistics Directorate, are involved with the Utah project. NSA considers the
total sum of agency personnel staffed to certain construction projects
operational details and would not provide that statistic.  A small workforce of
up to 200 government and contract employees—building engineers, systems
administrators and maintenance workers—will stay permanently to keep the
facility running. 

Davis is more eager to discuss the quality than quantity of his employees.
Roughly 10 years ago, while working as an NSA human resources director, he
encountered an untapped talent pool that he now draws from regularly. “The
disabled population is just so thankful to have a job. They would just come in
here and you’d have to actually force them to go home,” Davis says. “I have
engineers that are hard of hearing, and our workforce all took sign language so
they could actually communicate with one another.”

Nobody waters down security clearance exercises to facilitate special needs
applicants, he adds. “Somebody who was deaf, we would do polygraph in sign
language,” Davis says. “What we look for is qualifications first. We have
someone developing software—working on the computers—that is blind. There is
really no limitation that we have found as long we can find the skill match.” At
least a dozen engineers who have disabilities work in his directorate. Grounds
maintenance and snow removal contractors in Utah will be hired through
SourceAmerica (formerly NISH), a nonprofit organization that fits agency needs
with the skills of job seekers with disabilities.

“He has integrated this into the fabric of the company,” says Joyce A. Bender,
past chair of the board of the American Association of People with Disabilities,
who met Davis when he decided NSA needed more diversity. “What makes this work
at any company is a passionate leader, someone in leadership, whether it’s in
the private sector or a federal agency,” says Bender, a Pittsburgh-based
consultant who recruits people with disabilities for work in government and
industry.

Her firm refers to NSA about 200 individuals annually for positions in finance,
linguistics, math and other specialties. Since 2010, about 550 candidates have
been hired. “If he says, ‘I’m going to do something,’ you can count on it that
he is going to do it,” Bender says of Davis. “He doesn’t sugarcoat anything.
He’s very direct and to the point.” 

A Leak During Construction

No matter their background or how they came to NSA, civil servants and contract
employees alike all serve in silence. “That’s really the culture of this agency,
and we’re really not looking for big accolades,” Davis says. “What really makes
the people satisfied here is that they did the job and they did it right and
they’re doing things within the appropriate manner.” The mentality is that NSA
operates in the dark for the safety of Americans. Some citizens, however, argue
it should operate in the sunshine a little more for the safety of democracy. 

The secrecy dispute is “a distraction and a weakness that has been presented by
this guy,” Snowden, who should not have seen such sensitive information in the
first place, says one former NSA official. “They’ve got to do some internal
homework about how to keep that data separate,” the ex-official says, adding
that technical controls are not very difficult to configure. “How the heck did
this guy in Hawaii gain access to all that?”

Some human rights advocates are grateful for the exposure of the agency’s
surveillance methods. “Communications about millions of innocent Americans are
being stored for five years in a government database—whether or not there is any
reason to search our call records, and I don’t think our Constitution allows
that,” says Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s
National Security Project.

Even some former Pentagon officials say citizens should know NSA’s intentions
for the Utah data center. “When you have this much centralization of
capabilities, which in government terms can translate into real power—that and
resources—it’s important that the public be able to look at these things and
figure out what they are doing,” says a cyber official who recently left Defense
and now works as a private contractor. The official is not involved in the
project and was not authorized to speak on behalf of the department.

A 2012 article in Wired reported that NSA needs the megaplex partially because
the Pentagon wants to expand the military global communications network to
manage yottabytes of data. “A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no
one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude,” the article said.
“Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it
would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of
text.” NSA officials told Government Executive, however, they do not discuss
such operational details.  

An Open House

The contents of the NSA computer fortress might be a mystery to the public, but
Davis says his project has been open to congressional and industry scrutiny.

“The military construction process by design is a very, very transparent
process. We work through the Corps of Engineers,” he says. “It’s a public
discourse. When we give out our request for proposal, that’s through
FedBizOpps.gov.” But on the website, many of the work descriptions for that
project are locked behind a firewall. NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines says the
documents are restricted because “they must be accounted for and are only for
cleared defense contractors.”

Davis acknowledges the controversy over his project has taken an emotional toll.
“We’ve been pressured to disclose what’s been going in the Utah Data Center for
quite a while independent of the current events,” he says. “My workforce and the
workforce that I work with here [in Utah] take our jobs and our responsibility
very, very seriously, and for somebody to say that we’re doing something
untoward is a pretty big hit on the morale here.”

No matter the outcome of the debate, the Utah computers are expected to go
online within two months. This is where the MBA comes in. From choosing a site,
to convincing Congress to agree with blueprints to surmounting a
late-in-the-game budget chop, balancing the books is key. “Utah is a wonderful
place with abundant and inexpensive power,” Davis says. “Plenty of sources of
water for cooling.” NSA applied a mathematical model to select the location. The
surrounding environment simplified construction. “Utah, because of the facility
and the utilities, just came out far and ahead of everywhere else,” he says.
“Lots of good roads. We could get the steel in. We could get the concrete in. We
have lots of sand pits nearby,” he says. “We built our own cement slabs in that
area. It’s pretty well offset from the road for the security that we need for
the data center.”

The price tag for the project is in line with industry standards, according to
NSA. “It’s actually relatively cheap and I came in under cost,” Davis says,
referring to $100 million in savings gained partly by refusing to let
contractors adjust the plan. Penny-pinching became mandatory when governmentwide
spending cuts, known as sequestration, kicked in this year.

“One of the biggest cost drivers on a project this size is something called an
engineering change proposal. They really number in the tens to hundreds in a
project of this size,” but one could “count on a couple of hands the numbers of
change orders that we allowed to happen,” he says. “We spent a lot of time
honing the requirements tightly up front, making sure we knew what we were
building, building it, and not going back and changing it later.” That’s the New
York strong arm talking. 

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