On 11/22/14, 2:55 PM, Gregory Foster wrote:

United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia (~2011) - "A Proposal for the Creation of the Hampton Roads Telephone Intercept Sharing Network (HRTISN)" by Investigative Analyst Paul B. Swartz: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1364622-hampton-roads-usatty.html

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arstechnica (Nov 21) - "Feds proposed the secret phone database used by local Virginia cops" by @cfarivar: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/feds-proposed-the-secret-phone-da...

The hardware and software infrastructure recommended by the federal prosecutors office is called "Pen-Link" by Pen-Link, Ltd. (Lincoln, NE): https://www.penlink.com/ Here's a listing of 339 federal contract events with Pen-Link, Ltd.: https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull&templateName=1.4.4&s=FPDS&q=VENDOR_FULL_NAME%3A%22PEN-LINK%2C+LTD.%22&x=32&y=15 And here's a graphic analysis of expenditures on Pen-Link hardware, software, services, and training by year stacked by federal agency: http://jsfiddle.net/gregoryfoster/eb2zgre2/7/embedded/result/ There are some interesting signs in the data which suggest the manner in which familiarity with Pen-Link's capabilities spread throughout the USG, geographically across the US (see DEA data), and across the world (see State Department records - although Pen-Link, Ltd. also exports across the globe). The tripling of investment by the DEA in 2014 is noteworthy. GSA records over $50M USD worth of contract events dating back to an initial engagement in 1995 by the DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service. gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/