article_snippet: The incident sparked terrorism fears at the heavily secured area on Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, on Monday morning.
article_snippet: The Washington Post reported that the shooting - which resulted in the president being briefed - was linked to the robbery at the Jessup hotel in the morning, less than five miles from the NSA.
article_snippet: The NSA checkpoint where the shooting - which resulted in the president being briefed - occurred is directly off the busy Highway 295 between Washington, DC, and Baltimore .
article_snippet: This diagram shows where the shooting - which resulted in the president being briefed - took place - just outside a gate at Fort Meade in Maryland .
article_snippet: Fort Meade in Maryland is home to several highly sensitive government agencies, including the NSA - the spy agency responsible for controversial mass surveillance programs - and the US military Cyber Command, which is responsible for military cyber-warfare and defense.
article_snippet: The base is home to more than 11,000 military personnel and 29,000 civilian employees.