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In reply to the discussion: Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)60. More on them (one bit from 2001):
http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/
They are working on the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (which helps get broadband access to communities across the US)
More from a gov site search:
just google Booz-Allen site .gov
April 2001:
NSA PRESS RELEASE
2 April 2001
For further information contact:
NSA Public and Media Affairs, 301-688-6524
National Security Agency Awards Concept Studies for TRAILBLAZER
The National Security Agency (NSA) awarded three prime contracts on 29 March for concept studies, launching the Agency's transformation efforts. The studies will define the architecture, cost, and acquisition approach for TRAILBLAZER 1, the NSA program to develop analytic capabilities to meet the challenge of rapidly evolving, modern telecommunications. The prime contracts were awarded to Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (Annapolis Junction, MD), Lockheed Martin Corporation (Hanover, MD), and TRW (Systems & Information Technology Group, Columbia, MD). These prime contractors will have over thirty industry partners, in total, associated with their efforts.
The award of these contracts culminates a process that began last August when over 130 potential industry partners participated in a TRAILBLAZER Industry Day at NSA Headquarters. Suggestions from industry, together with definition of the Agency's requirements, led to the subsequent release in October of a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) to obtain detailed industry inputs. The final RFP was released in early December and proposals were submitted in January. The NSA Program Office completed this initial phase with the evaluation of seven proposals from a very broad cross-section of industry, including over 100 enterprises in the sectors of defense and intelligence, advanced information technology, internet dotcoms, commercial business process re-engineering, and academia.
The evaluation of the proposals reflected the Agency's emphasis on innovation to rapidly apply commercial information technology while at the same time providing overall program management through a disciplined acquisition process. The evaluation of this best value procurement took a few weeks longer than planned, due to the complexity of the proposals and the large response from industry. These contracts include a base period of performance and an option for analysis and integration of the results of the studies from all three contracts and other on-going NSA programs and architecture efforts.
The kick-off for these studies will be conducted in early April and subsequent analyses and deliverables will be focused on preparing for a limited production decision in 2002.
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2001/trailblazer.shtml
They are working on the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (which helps get broadband access to communities across the US)
More from a gov site search:
just google Booz-Allen site .gov
April 2001:
NSA PRESS RELEASE
2 April 2001
For further information contact:
NSA Public and Media Affairs, 301-688-6524
National Security Agency Awards Concept Studies for TRAILBLAZER
The National Security Agency (NSA) awarded three prime contracts on 29 March for concept studies, launching the Agency's transformation efforts. The studies will define the architecture, cost, and acquisition approach for TRAILBLAZER 1, the NSA program to develop analytic capabilities to meet the challenge of rapidly evolving, modern telecommunications. The prime contracts were awarded to Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (Annapolis Junction, MD), Lockheed Martin Corporation (Hanover, MD), and TRW (Systems & Information Technology Group, Columbia, MD). These prime contractors will have over thirty industry partners, in total, associated with their efforts.
The award of these contracts culminates a process that began last August when over 130 potential industry partners participated in a TRAILBLAZER Industry Day at NSA Headquarters. Suggestions from industry, together with definition of the Agency's requirements, led to the subsequent release in October of a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) to obtain detailed industry inputs. The final RFP was released in early December and proposals were submitted in January. The NSA Program Office completed this initial phase with the evaluation of seven proposals from a very broad cross-section of industry, including over 100 enterprises in the sectors of defense and intelligence, advanced information technology, internet dotcoms, commercial business process re-engineering, and academia.
The evaluation of the proposals reflected the Agency's emphasis on innovation to rapidly apply commercial information technology while at the same time providing overall program management through a disciplined acquisition process. The evaluation of this best value procurement took a few weeks longer than planned, due to the complexity of the proposals and the large response from industry. These contracts include a base period of performance and an option for analysis and integration of the results of the studies from all three contracts and other on-going NSA programs and architecture efforts.
The kick-off for these studies will be conducted in early April and subsequent analyses and deliverables will be focused on preparing for a limited production decision in 2002.
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2001/trailblazer.shtml
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Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
OP
Precisely. Abramoff was an amateur compared to what was happening at Booz Allen is my GUESS.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#52
This is the important article: 2 DNIs were Booz Allen Hamilton VPs before the govt job
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2013
#61
I'd call it a huge elephant turd from our chewed up tax dollars. Yeah, you'd think Congress
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#11
This is why so many have the agenda of making it all about Snowden and Greenwald
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#15
LOL! Snowden made it about himself when he decided to leak info to foreign countries. He could have
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#50
Where did you get the info that he actually gave data to foreign countries? nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#66
Unless I missed it, I don't think you can mention The Carlyle Group w/o naming the Bush clan.
byeya
Jul 2013
#23
This is from the Center for Global Research from 2003...can't vouch for them but I remember
byeya
Jul 2013
#42
Just because you have TS security doent mean you are allowed to access a ton of data.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#69
Because their employees are screened by a hedge fund, that's why. It would create all kinds of
silvershadow
Jul 2013
#26
How can anyone be surprised that "lower level employees had access . . . . [to] a very large amount
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#49
That makes me feel so much better knowing he was intended to have that kind of access.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#53
No. It really isn't intended to defend anything just to make an observation.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#54
I've had the highest level access to companies assets for many years now
Cronus Protagonist
Jul 2013
#57