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The Center for Communications and Computing of the IDA is a nonprofit research entity founded in the 1950s. They perform research in support of the National Security Agency's cryptology mission. This includes foreign signals intelligence and the protection of the communications of the United States Government. They have offices in Princeton, New Jersey; La Jolla, California; and the Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland.
The Center for Communications and Computing is divided into the Communications Research Division and the Center for Computing Sciences. The Communications Research Division was founded in 1959 to work on problems in cryptography, cryptanalysis, algorithms, high-performance computing, information processing, signal processing, and network security. This includes related areas of pure and applied mathematics.
The Center for Computing Sciences was founded in 1985. Their focus is on solving intelligence-related problems, tackling problem sets of interest to computational science, and the development and use of high-end computing. This work includes computing for cryptography, network security, cyber issues, signal processing, and emerging algorithmic and mathematical techniques for complex data sets.
