Outsourcing Big Brother

By Adam Mayle and Alex Knott

WASHINGTON, December 17, 2002 — The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon research program that aims to gather and

Excerpts from this story referencing "DARPA":

"… ublic Integrity has learned.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which oversees the Total Information Awareness System (TIA), awarded 13 …"

"… sed by an employee of a private contractor. John Poindexter, who worked on DARPA projects for Syntek, an Arlington, Va.-based technical and engineering ser …"

"… —Visual Analytics, Inc., a Poolesville, Md.-based software developer and DARPA contractor, has applied for a trademark for the phrase.In addition, the Ce …"

"… gram, Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization.“DARPA doesn’t do any of its own research,” Jan Walker, a spokeswoman for the …"

Commentary — Total information awareness: A chance encounter raises questions

By Charles Lewis

WASHINGTON, December 17, 2002 — It happened late on a Friday night, at my third airport of the day. As American Airlines Flight 3028 from St

Excerpts from this story referencing "DARPA":

"… ess program, part of the Defense Advanced Research and Development Agency (DARPA), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tried unreassuringly to reassure us, …"

"… 11th, 2001, via private contracts to companies and universities issued by DARPA to research and develop highly-sophisticated computer systems to attempt t …"

"… y called Syntek, has been involved in this sensitive, highly controversial DARPA-funded work actually since 1995 — and no one in this country even notice …"

"… gram did not officially begin until January 2002, the various pre-existing DARPA-funded information-gathering “modules” can all be searched and compreh …"