U.S. Army Contract for “Internet Awareness Services”
July 10th, 2008Via: Federal Business Opportunities:
STATEMENT OF WORK
The contractor shall conduct internet awareness services in support of the Governments activities to include Indications and Warning, Force Protection, and situational awareness.
The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest, and other contextual data relating to selected internet domains. The contractor will prioritize foreign language domains that relate to specific areas of concern.
The contractor will analyze various web pages, chat rooms, blogs and other internet domains to aggregate and assess data of interest to the Government. It will also identify new internet domains that directly relate to the Governments specific local requirements.
The contractor will include a principle cyber investigator, a locally specialized threat analyst, a foreign speaking analyst with cyber investigative skills, and a constant watch team. It will organize additional native language translations at the direction of the Governments designated Contracting Officers Representative (COR), following mutual agreement.
The deliverable product will consist of a written report, delivered weekly to the COR. The report will contain raw data and supporting analysis to add value to raw materials. The contractors sources will be captioned under alias to preserve access, but upon request, the contractor will consider releasing specific URLs on an as needed basis based on the Governments request, if explicit threat materials or imminent threat to personnel or facilities are discovered.
The contractor shall immediately contact via telephone and/or email the designated COR upon receipt of any and all stated or implied threats that contain timing and/or targeting information relating to personnel, facilities or activities, and to specifically designated areas of concern.
As part of this alerting, if the contractor identifies a stated or implied threat that contains timing, targeting or both, it will deliver the raw URL and any supporting URLs relating to the threat materials. It will also make an investigator available within 8 hours of request for analytic discussions regarding the threat.
If the Government receives a deliverable report and believe the materials contain threat information, the COR may make a request for the URL release 24 hours a day to the contractor. The contractor will consider the ad hoc request for URL and respond within 12 hours. On cases where someone other than the COR makes a request, the contractor will notify the COR and will inform him or her of its decision.
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What scares me the most is that they use the word “cyber” in the job descriptions. Authoritarian, sure, but anachronistically corny vernacular?
Well now, I’ll just have to get out some of my multi-gigabyte dummy files and saturate their system with 128 bit encrypted garbage with the occasional un encrypted “bait” headers mentioning tasty bits like “jihad” and other words that will give these goons “cyber erections.”
Maybe these new hires can set up honey pots that look a little more robust than this. HA!
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You have no idea how corny these people are. Pirate flags, skulls & crossbones, “Cyber Warfare”, the whole nine yards that no self-respecting IT and sci-fi geek could gaze upon without an involuntary shudder.
These folks could read William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and Neil Stephenson and Vernor Vinge all day long and just. not. get. it.
It surprised me just how un-literate and un-aware a lot of the folks are who do this shit for their day job, once I got hip-deep into it. I’d come home and tell my wife about what went on at work, and she’d look at me like I was employed by six-year-olds playing cowboys and Indians in the backyard. “Are you serious?” was the most frequent response.
And yes, they’re just as authoritarian as they are corny and tragically un-hip.