Utah will host new $1.9 billion NSA spy center

(DESERET NEWS) Psst: The super-secretive National Security Agency is about to build a huge, $1.9 billion data center at Camp Williams, Utah, to help spy on communications worldwide.

The planned work there is so sensitive and classified that Utah's congressional delegation is declining to talk about it, saying it doesn't want to accidentally step over any lines about what can and cannot be disclosed. They referred inquiries to the NSA, which provided only a brief statement confirming the center is coming to Utah.

Utah's National Guard (owner of Camp Williams) was equally mum, with spokesman Lt. Col. Hank McIntire simply divulging that the guard's extent of involvement is to provide the land for the center and be the NSA's "benevolent landlord." He said the project has been in the works for years.

But some interesting details are revealed in unclassified budget-request documents that the NSA sent to Congress.

For example, they say the facility will sit on 120 acres at Camp Williams. They add that the center's mission will be to deliver "responsive, reliable, effective and expert signals-intelligence and information-assurance products and services" to enable "network-warfare operations to gain a decisive information advantage for the nation and our allies under all circumstances."

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