Oh Noes! What wills they do?
Budget falling short at NSA
The Baltimore Sun
[...]
The money crunch comes despite a doubling of the NSA's budget since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to approximately $8 billion per year. The agency received essentially the same amount in this year's budget as last year, according to a senior intelligence official speaking on condition of anonymity because intelligence budgets are classified.
"There's this wet blanket over everything that says, `No new money,'" said a former congressional intelligence aide who requested anonymity.
[...] Alexander is seeking about $650 million more for the NSA's spy programs and an added $280 million or so to address the agency's looming power deficit and speed modernization of technology, current and former intelligence officials say. The exact figures are classified, and final amounts are under negotiation.
But here's the catch --
That news article was from Jan 2007 with respect to a 2008 NSA Budget shortfall.
No telling what they're asking for these days ... What with all their heighten PR spotlight lately, and don't forget the mountains of Hard Drives Parallel Redundantly-Mirrored Server Blade Farms they need just to keep pace with ... well Everyone!
No worries though, the NSA owns mountains ... they just need some Jetsons remodeling.
Post Haste, Congress. Giddy up.