DELTA Force

Delta Force in the National Security Context

A definition and brief description of Delta Force in relation to national security is as follows:Elite counter-terrorism group of the U.S. Army ™s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta. DES Digital Encryption Standard. In the late 1970s, the U.S. government defined a cipher algorithm for standard use by all government departments, available also to the public. This early algorithm, the Digital Encryption Standard, is today in the process of being replaced by a new algorithm, the Advanced Encryption Standard.