The BYEMAN Control System, or simply BYEMAN (designated BYE, or B), was a security control system put in place to protect information about the National Reconnaissance Office and its operations.
Discussions regarding BCS retirement were held as early as 2003. NRO Director Peter B. Teets spoke at a 2003 NRO Town Hall meeting, mentioning that retiring the BCS would remove barriers that prevented the NRO and U.S. Intelligence Community from working together as a team.[1]
The use of BCS was so prevalent throughout the U.S. Intelligence Community, that a handful of websites were set up to direct users through the retirement process.[2]
Origin of nameedit
An individual inside the CIA's Special Security Center chose the name from a random list of four words drawn from the CIA's codeword file. A byeman is a man who works underground; it is unknown if the individual knew the word's meaning before its selection.[3]
Programs within BYEMANedit
This is a small list of the publicly acknowledged programs that were held within the BCS:
While many other NRO programs resided within the BCS, their codenames have not been made public through proper disclosure or official declassification.
In the 1998 blockbuster movie Armageddon, a misspelling of the word, (i.e. "BYMAN") is used on a cover sheet protecting photos of the incoming asteroid. (the correct spelling, BYEMAN, was still classified "Confidential" at that time.)
Referencesedit
^National Reconnaissance Office: "DNRO Town Hall reviews NRO successes for 2003," The Recon, 12 December 2003
^National Reconnaissance Office: "New website invites questions about BYEMAN retirement," The Recon, 26 March 2004
^National Security Archive: "The Retirement of BYEMAN"
^ abc(PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^National Reconnaissance Office: "BYE Control System Retirement Executive Level Overview"
^National Reconnaissance Office: "The ONE Book - Implementation Guidance for Retiring the BYE Control System"
January 01, 1970
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