What is SHELLTRUMPET?
Document Date:
December 31, 2012
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata
Internal NSA memo celebrates SHELLTRUMPET's processing of its one trillionth record. Initiated in 2007 as a metadata analyzer, SHELLTRUMPET is used by the NSA for performance monitoring, direct email tip alerting, and TRAFFICTHIEF tipping. The program prcesses two billion communication events per day and will be expanding its reach into additional systems.