"On This Date in Cryptologic History" Calendar
1945: Signal Security Agency becomes ASA
15 September 1945: The Signal Security Agency reorganized as the Army Security Agency.
Excerpt from "Origins of the Army Security Agency" on NSA.gov.
"The SSA was reorganized as the Army Security Agency (ASA) at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, on 15 September 1945. Operating under the command of the Director of Military Intelligence, the new agency had a sweeping charter. It exercised control functions through a vertical command structure. ASA established a worldwide chain of fixed sites - "field stations" - while maintaining large theater headquarters in the Far East and in Europe.
In 1949, all three military cryptologic services were centralized under the new Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), the precursor of today's National Security Agency." ....see link below for a collection of historical publications about the ASA.
