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October 08, 2005
SOCOM moves to rebuild Able Danger capabilities
From the uncannily well-informed Paul De La Garza at the Saint Petersburg Times:
The Pentagon is establishing a secret facility in St. Petersburg to help Special Operations Command better process intelligence.Because the project is classified, details remain sketchy. But Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, confirmed the basic outline late Friday.
He said Blackbird Technologies of Virginia was awarded the $27-million contract to operate a Joint Intelligence Operations Center on behalf of SOCom, which is based at MacDill Air Force Base....
The center - to operate out of a building at 9th Street N and Gandy Boulevard - is intended to help National Intelligence Director John Negroponte "remodel" military intelligence at SOCom....
He added: "The SOCom upgrade will look at better data management capabilities that include the use of open source information, emergency backup and retrieval systems and visualization tools."
...Open source intelligence, or "OSINT" - the kind of work that will be conducted out of the center - refers to intelligence-gathering based on information collected from open sources, such as information available to the general public.
That includes newspapers, the Internet, books, phone books, scientific journals, radio broadcasts, television and other sources.
Posted by Mike at October 8, 2005 03:27 PM
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