26 December 2009. Thanks to A.

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The Modern Spook's Data Retention Wish List (Part One)

The Modern Spook's Wish List Part Two

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Part Three

Featuring a grim Lady, last known rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force; and showing how generously "The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center" has been sponsoring the FBI concerning CALEA surveillance in telco, packet cable and mobile networks; further displaying how a "total small business" called Tridea Works could win DoD contracts of over 22 million USD in five years and can expect 33 million more over the next few years.

Let us start the third part of this series where part two ended: Scrutinizing the attendees list of the ETSI surveillance group SA3 LI. There are Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Motorola, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, BT and Vodafone staffers - the industry group. Vendors are there to sell new surveillance equipment, the said telco giants operate multinational networks, surveillance is overall cheaper when standardized.

Entrance of the grim Lady

The three spooks already identified are in SA 3 LI following much of their core business: watching all others. As we have seen in Part Two, they are not allowed to spy on other delegates during the SA3 LI sessions.

Add a handful of bureaucrats from French, German and Austrian telco regulations offices - and that is SA3 LI? Not really. This grim lady materialized in the working group early in 2008 and has since become a regular to SA3 LI.

Hi-rez

"Cobra Gold"

This DoD photograph portrays Major Jean Trakinat during the joint exercise of US and Thai forces called "Cobra Gold" at Khao Na Ting, Thailand in 1996. Mme poses with a PRC-90 VHF emergency radio used by pilots who have to leave their aircraft before grounding them properly.

Mme Trakinat knows about that, for she was Commander to the 613th Air Communications Squadron, Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Last known Rank: Lieutenant Colonel.

The Mystery of Tridea

In ETSI Mme Trakinat is listed representing an entity called "TPS", see below. But the documents she produces are ascribed to a company named Tridea Works LLC. According to the corporate website Tridea Works has neither board nor employees, there is neither an address nor contact provided.

Business social networks and other sources say that Mme worked for the National Communications System, emergency call system section before. By 2005 she pops up again as the main editor of the voluminous standard "Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance for cdma2000 Voice over IP":

http://cryptome.org/2005_01_19_TIA_TR_LAES_CDMA2000_VoIP_surveillance.pdf

The issuing TIA Subcommittee TR-45.6 is the CDMA counterpart to ETSI SA 3 LI, which is committed to the GSM/UMTS mobile standards family. More on US surveillance standardization groups will follow in Part four of the Modern Spook's Wishlist.

Thereafter Mme Trakinat helped to enable fullscale spying on cable-TV customers, as she worked as member for "PacketCable Electronic Surveillance Focus Team" (see document acknowledgements for Tridea contributors).

http://cryptome.org/2007_01_28_PacketCable_surveillance_spec_1_5.pdf

A further bit of research shows that the company seemingly employs around 15 people. Tridea Works resides in Reston, Virginia, 1163 Fieldview Drive at a pretty unlikely location. If you compare that to the funding [see below], especially.

1163 Fieldview Drive, Reston, VA

The Whois database offers another address. Tridea Works, LLC, 14800 Conference Center Drive, Suite 300, Chantilly, VA 20151. That is the address of the FBI CALEA Implementation office and near the National Reconnaissance Office headquarters.

14800 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly, VA

So is Mme Trakinat employed by the FBI? Not really.

Read her own job definition on top of the following ETSI document which describes the interception model for conference calls: "Jean Trakinat [and] Selvam Rengasami, TrideaWorks Consultants to CALEA Implementation Unit Technical Program Section (TPS)".

So the acronym TPS is lifted as well as the status of both persons. The CALEA implementation unit is of course part of the FBI, but the named persons are consultants to the FBI, from Tridea.

http://cryptome.org/2008_08_06_SA_3LI_TISPANWG7_conferencing_status.pdf

33 million USD, exclusive contract

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to negotiate a sole source contract with a total small business for services under NAICS code 541618 to Tridea Works, LLC.,[...] the FBI has a requirement for Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) services".

"The period of performance for this contract is 15 Sept 2008 through 14 Sept 2009 plus 4 options estimated award amount 33,000,000.00 systems life. To our knowledge Tridea Works, LLC is the only organization that can provide personnel with working knowledge of CALEA requirements."

"A sole source contract" worth 33 million, not bad for "total small business" such as Tridea. But that is not all of the funding.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems

Tridea won contracts for "technical assistance" services to the armed Forces worth 7.2 million dollars alone in 2008, states a government contractor database. All in all that makes 22 million from 2004 when Tridea Works won the first contract.

Government contracting office, however, is not the FBI but either the "Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance" or "The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center". Weapon System: Not discernable" say the files.

Tridea DoD contracts in 2004

http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/tridea_works_llc_118393524.asp?yr=04

Tridea DoD contracts in 2008

http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/tridea_works_llc_118393524.asp?yr=08

Of noble and generous Spooks

According to the DoD in 2006 "Tridea Works LLC*, Reston, Va., is being awarded an estimated $6,249,689 modification [...] for the Federal Bureau of Investigation support for communications assistance for law enforcement implementation services [...] Work will be performed in Chantilly, Va. [...] Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract modification was awarded using other than full and open competition." Contracting Agency: The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C.

My goodness, how noble these space warriors can be! Such a generous sponsorhip of the poor FBI cops' yearning for telco traffic and geodata!

And again: "modification...awarded...other than full and open competition." Again sole and exclusive for Tridea.

So we leave it therewith in Part Three of The Modern Spook's Wishlist. Part four of this co-production of cryptome.org and quintessenz.org will come up with conclusions and documents mirroring the activities of TIA TR 45-6 and other LAES working groups. And of course we will return to Tom, Dick and Harry - ahem - Mark, Mark and Ian from GCHQ.

The "Modern Spooks Wish List" will be discussed in an upcoming lecture at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin on Monday 28. December 2009.

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Main_Page

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