WATCHFUL AND WISE
The NSA OIG's logo is designed to communicate its role in advancing the Agency’s mission through independent oversight.
Featuring the image of an owl – associated for centuries with watchfulness and wisdom, key traits for an OIG – it reflects the office’s core values:
- Oversight,
- Integrity,
- Independence, and
- Transparency.
The owl holds in its talons a lightning key, representing the Agency’s combined signals intelligence and cybersecurity missions.