August 2008
24 posts
The Other Brother: Corporate Data Storage and...
“It may surprise you to know that, since the mid-1990s, Lockheed Martin has been the single largest IT provider to the federal government.” – Vance D. Coffman, Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation(1)
In 1949, George Orwell wrote a dystopian novel that has molded the vision of a surveillance state in the collective conscious of Western Civilization. A novel which featured a dictator called...
DefenseLink News Article: DoD First to Transfer... →
Never to be outdone, the Department of Defense is also one of the first to transfer its electronic records to NARA.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Challenges in Implementing... →
Statement of Linda Koontz, Director Information Management Issues before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
U.S. Department of State Electronic Records... →
The State Department’s records will be some of the first records to be stored in the new ERA system.
Successful Test for First Phase of National... →
Despite less than stellar reviews from the OMB, the White House released this press release celebrating the ERA program.
ExpectMore.gov: National Archives and Records... →
ExpectMore.gov is a service of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and the federal agencies being assessed. It offers assessments of many federal programs, giving a rating based upon its performance.
“ERA is the National Archives and Records Administration’s strategic...”
– The National Archives Electronic Records Archives (ERA
National Archives Announces Completion of Major... →
This is announcement that the National Archives’ new Electronic Records Archives system (built by Lockheed Martin) had almost reached a readiness point to begin recieving information from federal agencies.
Confidentiality, Privacy & Security Workgroup:... →
This subgroup of the American Health Information Community (AHIC), an advisory committee to the Department of Health and Human Services, accepted testimony from potential contractors looking to be involved in building a national electronic health records system.
In this Lockheed Martin were not awarded a contract to build such a system, but it is interesting to see their responses to privacy...
Interior Awards Lockheed Martin Pilot Contract For... →
“IMARS will allow all of our law enforcement officers, including field personnel, to collect, store, analyze and share information across department, federal, state and local levels,” said Larry Parkinson, Interior’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement and Security. “The system will provide the comprehensive data that is needed to identify problems, recognize trends, prioritize threats,...
News from Lockheed Martin UK →
“Our new system must anticipate the risks and challenges of the future and still achieve the highest data accuracy,” emphasized Julie Dunlap, Lockheed Martin’s 2010 DRIS program director.
2010 Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS)... →
“The 2010 DRIS contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin Corporation on October 5, 2005.”
Lockheed Martin is conducting the U.S. Census. More data in private hands….
2007 Report to Congress on the Impact of Data... →
The Deparment of Homeland Security comes clean about their Data Mining Activities.
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Here is a report from the Department of Homeland Security regarding the transfer of JetBlue’s passenger data into TSA’s new passenger tracking system, CAPPS II.
"Balancing Privacy and Security: The Privacy... →
While Lockheed Martin is not mentioned by name during this hearing, one of the projects discussed is the TSA’s system built by Lockheed Martin. This hearing directly addresses the privacy concerns related to data mining practices.
TSA Selects Lockheed Martin Management and Data... →
InfraGard - Public Private Partnership -Federal... →
PARTNERSHIPS PROTECTING AMERICA InfraGard: FBI and... →
This press release from the FBI encourages private companies to join the FBI’s counterintelligence efforts. In FBI director Mueller’s testimony to the Senate discusing this program (linked below), his singles out Lockheed as one of the early participants in this program.
"Able Danger and Intelligence Information Sharing... →
This hearing before the Senate Committee of the Judiciary discusses the Able Danger program in length— it is of note that this is some of fuel that fires 9/11 conspiracy theorists, who claim that Able Danger identified Mohammed Atta as a threat before the attack.
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
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Federal... →
This is the PIA produced by the Department of Justice discussing the potential impact on privacy of the NGI system being developed by Lockheed for the FBI.
STATEMENT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN CHARGE MICHAEL... →
Mentions the capabilities of the FBI’s “INTEGRATED AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM” (or “IAFIS”), developed in part by Lockheed Martin. The FBI later named Lockheed as their contractor of choice to develop the newer, more comprehensive “Next Generation Identification System”.
Testimony of Erik Kleinsmith to the Senate... →
This breif statement by a Lockheed Martin employee discusses a program called, “Able Danger” — a data mining program comissioned by the U.S. Army Intelligence from LM.
It interesting to note that Mr. Kleinsmith’s work at Lockheed Martin is to, “manage an intelligence analysis training team of about 28 instructors that specialize in integrating counterterrorism and...
STATEMENT OF
ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR OF... →
At this hearing, Mueller provides and update on the Lockheed Martin contract to build, “Sentinal”, the FBI’s new case-management computer system.
Testimony of Robert S. Mueller, III
Director,... →
In this hearing, the Director Mueller discusses the FBI’s efforts to form partnerships with several U.S. Corporations at the executive level, including Lockheed Martin, as part of their Counterintelligence strategy.
July 2008
7 posts
TSA: Covenant/Lockheed Team to Assume Screening... →
Here is a press release from the TSA discussing Lockheed’s screening of airline passengers.
FOIA →
USA Services, a web site maintianed by the General Services Administration (GSA),
From Wikipedia: an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops...
FOIA within the EOP →
Defense News →
This publication shows the top Defense Contractors in the United States. Lockheed Martin is number one currently.
Public reading facilities and policy on contractor... →
Here’s a link to the DOE’s policy via the GPO. It is interesting that each agency may interpret contractor records differently as whether they are subject to FOIA requests.
Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC § 552 →
Here is a link via the Department of Justice web site to the Freedom of Information Act as ammended in 2002
Dr. Nicolas Dominguez, Case No. VFA-0377, March... →
Here is an example where although Lockheed’s contract states: “Except as is provided in paragraph (b) of this clause, all records acquired or generated by the Contractor in its performance of this contract shall be the property of the Government …”
However, that information is filtered as such: “Contract No. DE-AC05-960R22464, Section H.22 (a). Paragraph (b)(4) of...