Australian Signals Directorate

ASD is Australia's foreign signals intelligence, cyber security and offensive cyber operations agency. Protecting Australia for 70 + years.
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Employee Count: 60
Keywords: defense & space manufacturing

Australian Signals Directorate is an Australian government foreign intelligence collection agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence and information security . ASD's role within UKUSA Agreement is to monitor SIGINT in South Asia and East Asia. The ASD also houses the Australian Cyber Security Centre. The unit was established in 1947 by executive order as the Defence Signals Bureau within the Department of Defence, and underwent several name changes until its current name ASD was adopted in 2013. ASD was converted to a statutory body by the Intelligence Services Act 2001. ASD is based in Canberra, at the Defence Department Headquarters at Russell Offices. OverviewThe principal functions of ASD are to collect and disseminate foreign signals intelligence and to provide information security products and services to the Australian Government and Australian Defence Force, its foreign partners and militaries. ASD operates at least three receiving stations: the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station, located at Kojarena, near Geraldton, Western Australia, the Shoal Bay Receiving Station, located at Shoal Bay, Northern Territory, and a small station on the Cocos Islands. ASD also maintains a workforce at Pine Gap in central Australia.