Tuesday, September 12, 2017

NSA Is Spending Money On New Tech

NextGov: NSA Quietly Awarded a Classified $2.4 Billion Tech Contract With More to Come

The National Security Agency has awarded tech firm CSRA the first of three portions of its classified Groundbreaker contract, which could potentially be worth as much as $2.4 billion over the next decade if all options are exercised.

CSRA announced the award through a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, where it acknowledged the value and duration of the contract without naming the customer agency or the contract’s name. Neither CSRA nor NSA offered comment to Nextgov for this story.

Details on Groundbreaker are sparse, but the NSA program dates back to a 2001 effort to outsource its IT operations.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

We had 3 chances and we blew them all.

Operation Darkheart was ran form Tampa Florida.

The CIA didn't talk to the FBI. The Gorelick Wall

Then there is Thinread.

www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/09/a-good-american-review-nsa-whistleblower-william-binney-911-world-trade-centre

www.imdb.com/title/tt4065414/

http://agoodamerican.org/

www.agoodamerican.net/trailer/

https://www.facebook.com/agoodamerican

www.netflix.com/title/80170189

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_American

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelligence_official%29