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Director-General ASD speech to ASPI Artificial Intelligence Master Class

Director ASD speech to ACSC Conference 2018

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Establishment of a signals intelligence organisation post Second World War

On 23 July 1946, the Australian Government approved in principle the establishment of the Signals Intelligence Centre in Melbourne as part of the British Commonwealth Signals Intelligence Organisation.

Who we are

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Role and effectiveness of signals intelligence during World War II

This series of short narratives demonstrates the important role and level of effectiveness of SIGINT for the Allies during World War II.

AUM 352 ARDF Section: Air/Ground Comms, and ARDF Plotting Board Jan 1969

547 Signal Troop in Vietnam, 1966 to 1971

In 1966, Prime Minister Harold Holt announced an increase in Australia’s contribution to the defence of South Vietnam.

ASD Decoded

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No 3 Telecommunication Unit (3TU)

No 3 Telecommunication Unit (3TU) was a RAAF unit which, in its 45 years of operation, received little publicity or acknowledgement. The unit performed specialist communications tasks in strategic and tactical support to the ADF both in Australia and overseas.

Special telegraphists outside Central Bureau HQ (AWM P00123.001)

ASD’s origin story

ASD can trace its origins back to the Second World War, when Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force personnel were brought together to support General MacArthur’s South-West Pacific campaign by intercepting and decoding Japanese radio signals. 1942 saw the formation of two key organisations: Fleet Radio Unit, Melbourne (FRUMEL) and Central Bureau.

Nyrambla (State Library of Queensland, Neg 67869)

The Garage Girls

At the rear of Nyrambla, Central Bureau’s headquarters, there was a garage from which personnel from the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) operated. Nicknamed the ‘Garage Girls’ for the location of their operations, these women used TypeX machines, British cipher machines that were adapted from the German Enigma machines, to send and receive encrypted communications between Allied forces.