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<p>The <b>Hawaii Cryptologic Center</b> (<b>HCC</b>) or <b>NSA Hawaii</b> is a U.S. <a href="National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (NSA) <a href="Central_Security_Service" title="Central Security Service">Central Security Service</a> (CSS) facility located near <a href="Wahiawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Wahiawa">Wahiawa</a> on the island of <a href="Oahu" class="mw-redirect" title="Oahu">Oahu</a>, <a href="Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nsa12_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nsa12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The facility opened on January 6, 2012, at a cost of $358 million.<sup id="cite_ref-nsa12_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nsa12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The center focuses on <a href="Signals_intelligence" title="Signals intelligence">signals intelligence</a> intercepts from <a href="Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>, and conducts <a href="Cybersecurity" class="mw-redirect" title="Cybersecurity">cybersecurity</a> and <a href="Cyberwarfare" title="Cyberwarfare">cyberwarfare</a> operations.<sup id="cite_ref-bamford12_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bamford12-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In May 2013, a worker at this facility, <a href="Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> took many classified documents and provided them to the press, revealing the existence of a number of top secret NSA <a href="Mass_surveillance" title="Mass surveillance">mass surveillance</a> programs.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt13_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt13-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Kunia_Regional_SIGINT_Operations_Center" title="Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center">Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center</a></li>
<li><a href="European_Cryptologic_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="European Cryptologic Center">European Cryptologic Center</a></li>
<li><a href="Colorado_Cryptologic_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorado Cryptologic Center">Colorado Cryptologic Center</a></li>
<li><a href="Georgia_Cryptologic_Center" title="Georgia Cryptologic Center">Georgia Cryptologic Center</a></li>
<li><a href="Texas_Cryptologic_Center" title="Texas Cryptologic Center">Texas Cryptologic Center</a></li>
<li><a href="Navy_Information_Operations_Command%2C_Hawaii" title="Navy Information Operations Command, Hawaii">Navy Information Operations Command, Hawaii</a></li></ul>
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</style><div id="National_Security_Agency141" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Alaska_Mission_Operations_Center" title="Alaska Mission Operations Center">Alaska Mission Operations Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Buckley_Space_Force_Base" title="Buckley Space Force Base">Colorado Cryptologic Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Consolidated_Intelligence_Center" title="Consolidated Intelligence Center">Consolidated Intelligence Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Special_Collection_Service" title="Special Collection Service">CSSG</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Dagger_Complex" title="Dagger Complex">European Cryptologic Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="European_Technical_Center" title="European Technical Center">European Technical Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Fort_Meade" title="Fort Meade">Fort Meade</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Friendship_Annex" title="Friendship Annex">Friendship Annex</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Georgia_Cryptologic_Center" title="Georgia Cryptologic Center">Georgia Cryptologic Center</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Interagency_Training_Center" title="Interagency Training Center">Interagency Training Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Kent_Island_Research_Facility" title="Kent Island Research Facility">Kent Island</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Misawa_Security_Operations_Center" title="Misawa Security Operations Center">Misawa Security Operations Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Multiprogram_Research_Facility" title="Multiprogram Research Facility">Multiprogram Research Facility</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Pine_Gap" title="Pine Gap">Pine Gap</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="RAF_Menwith_Hill" title="RAF Menwith Hill">RAF Menwith Hill</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Roaring_Creek_Station" title="Roaring Creek Station">Roaring Creek</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Room_641A" title="Room 641A">Room 641A</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Salt_Creek_Station" title="Salt Creek Station">Salt Creek</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Sugar_Grove_Station" title="Sugar Grove Station">Sugar Grove</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Texas_Cryptologic_Center" title="Texas Cryptologic Center">Texas Cryptologic Center</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Utah_Data_Center" title="Utah Data Center">Utah Data Center</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Director_of_the_National_Security_Agency" title="Director of the National Security Agency">Leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Ralph_Canine" title="Ralph Canine">Ralph Canine</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="John_A._Samford" title="John A. Samford">John A. Samford</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Laurence_Hugh_Frost" title="Laurence Hugh Frost">Laurence Hugh Frost</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Gordon_Blake" title="Gordon Blake">Gordon Blake</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Marshall_Carter" title="Marshall Carter">Marshall Carter</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Noel_Gayler" title="Noel Gayler">Noel Gayler</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Samuel_C._Phillips" title="Samuel C. Phillips">Samuel C. Phillips</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Lew_Allen" title="Lew Allen">Lew Allen</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Bobby_Ray_Inman" title="Bobby Ray Inman">Bobby Ray Inman</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Lincoln_D._Faurer" title="Lincoln D. Faurer">Lincoln D. Faurer</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="William_Eldridge_Odom" title="William Eldridge Odom">William Eldridge Odom</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Bill_Studeman" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Studeman">Bill Studeman</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="John_Michael_McConnell" class="mw-redirect" title="John Michael McConnell">John Michael McConnell</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Kenneth_Minihan" title="Kenneth Minihan">Kenneth Minihan</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Michael_Hayden_(general)" title="Michael Hayden (general)">Michael Hayden</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Keith_B._Alexander" title="Keith B. Alexander">Keith B. Alexander</a> </span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Michael_S._Rogers" title="Michael S. Rogers">Michael S. Rogers</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Paul_Nakasone" title="Paul Nakasone">Paul Nakasone</a></span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Central_Security_Service" title="Central Security Service">CSS</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Special_Collection_Service" title="Special Collection Service">Special Collection Service</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Special_Source_Operations" title="Special Source Operations">SSO</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Tailored_Access_Operations" title="Tailored Access Operations">TAO</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="National_Security_Operations_Center" title="National Security Operations Center">NSOC</a></span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="ANT_catalog" title="ANT catalog">ANT catalog</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="FROSTBURG" title="FROSTBURG">FROSTBURG</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="IBM_7950_Harvest" title="IBM 7950 Harvest">HARVEST</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Secure_Terminal_Equipment" title="Secure Terminal Equipment">Secure Terminal Equipment (STE)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="STU-I" title="STU-I">STU-I</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="STU-II" title="STU-II">STU-II</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="STU-III" title="STU-III">STU-III</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="WARRIOR_PRIDE" title="WARRIOR PRIDE">WARRIOR PRIDE</a></span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures" title="2010s global surveillance disclosures">2010s global surveillance disclosures</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Church_Committee" title="Church Committee">Church Committee</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="LOVEINT" title="LOVEINT">LOVEINT</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="James_Bamford" title="James Bamford">James Bamford</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%932007)" title="NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)">NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence">Pike Committee</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Russ_Tice" title="Russ Tice">Russ Tice</a> </span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Thomas_Andrews_Drake" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Andrews Drake">Thomas Andrews Drake</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Thomas_Tamm" title="Thomas Tamm">Thomas Tamm</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Matthew_Aid" title="Matthew Aid">Matthew Aid</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Boundless_Informant" title="Boundless Informant">Boundless Informant</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Dropmire" title="Dropmire">Dropmire</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Echelon_(signals_intelligence)" class="mw-redirect" title="Echelon (signals intelligence)">ECHELON</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Fairview_(surveillance_program)" title="Fairview (surveillance program)">Fairview</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Insider_Threat_Program" title="Insider Threat Program">Insider Threat Program</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="MUSCULAR" title="MUSCULAR">MUSCULAR</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="MYSTIC_(surveillance_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="MYSTIC (surveillance program)">MYSTIC</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="PRISM" title="PRISM">PRISM</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Real_Time_Regional_Gateway" title="Real Time Regional Gateway">Real Time Regional Gateway</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Stellar_Wind" title="Stellar Wind">Stellar Wind</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Trailblazer_Project" title="Trailblazer Project">TRAILBLAZER</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Turbulence_(NSA)" title="Turbulence (NSA)">Turbulence</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Upstream_collection" title="Upstream collection">Upstream</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="XKeyscore" title="XKeyscore">XKeyscore</a></span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="DISHFIRE" class="mw-redirect" title="DISHFIRE">DISHFIRE</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Main_Core" title="Main Core">Main Core</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="MAINWAY" title="MAINWAY">MAINWAY</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="MARINA" title="MARINA">MARINA</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="PINWALE" class="mw-redirect" title="PINWALE">PINWALE</a></span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Dundee_Society" title="Dundee Society">Dundee Society</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Institute_for_Defense_Analyses" title="Institute for Defense Analyses">Institute for Defense Analyses</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="National_Cryptologic_Museum" title="National Cryptologic Museum">National Cryptologic Museum</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="National_Cryptologic_School" class="mw-redirect" title="National Cryptologic School">National Cryptologic School</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="National_Vigilance_Park" title="National Vigilance Park">National Vigilance Park</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="NSA_Hall_of_Honor" title="NSA Hall of Honor">NSA Hall of Honor</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Venona_project" title="Venona project">VENONA</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Vulnerabilities_Equities_Process" title="Vulnerabilities Equities Process">Vulnerabilities Equities Process</a></span></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Zendian_Problem" class="mw-redirect" title="Zendian Problem">Zendian Problem</a></span></li></ul>
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