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, is a nonprofit that networks with military, academia and industry involved in defense, cybersecurity and intelligence.“At NSA Texas, we are one of the largest employers in San Antonio — and we are growing,” she said. “But I go to a lot of places where people don’t know that you don’t have to live in Maryland or D.C. to support your country at the NSA. We have opportunities around the nation, really, but we’re recruiting heavily right now in Texas.
Corporate Office Properties Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust in Maryland, owns the San Antonio buildings and leases them to the NSA, according to property records and state corporate filings. The facilities are next to a Corporate Office Properties Trust-owned Amazon Web Services data center valued at $27.6 million last year, according to the appraisal district. Amazon filed plans with the state in 2020 to construct the center.
While offering a San Antonio tally, NSA declined to disclose the number of total staff across the nation. Beyond its size, NSA Texas’ impact is sizable in terms of “the synergy of this large talent pool with our city’s efforts to concentrate growth efforts in cybersecurity and military tech,” Heard said. The NSA’s “direct and indirect economic benefits to our city’s tech economy are substantial and key to our future growth.”
San Antonio leaders say that the city holds the largest number of cybersecurity employees in the U.S., outside of the Washington, D.C., area, leading them to a new marketing moniker: Cyber City USA.“Cybersecurity is a growing industry,” said Jeff Fair, a former NSA employee turned vice president of cybersecurity and economic development at the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
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