The NSA will pull together its offensive and defensive capabilities as part of the NSA21, or NSA in the 21st century, plan. NSA has two key missions: foreign intelligence-gathering and information assurance. One mission helps the other, as intelligence gathered by one side can be used by the other team to improve how government networks and private sector networks are protected. The NSA21 reorganization plan goes counter to recommendations made by a presidential panel in December 2013 that the NSA should concentrate on foreign intelligence.”]