[IP] Secret Squirrels?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross@stapleton-gray.com>
Date: July 24, 2007 12:56:07 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Secret Squirrels?

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is commissioning construction of a  
SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility)??  Al Qaeda  
recruiting racoons or something?

http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/FWS/CGSWO/973107Q036/SynopsisP.html

"The US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training  
Center (NCTC), Shepherdstown, WV intends to convert a room at the  
facility into a SCIF meeting space.     Potential Vendors are  
required to provide a design and cost estimate based on information  
provided with the solicitation and the scheduled walk through meeting  
on August 8, 2007 at 10:00am.     The room upon completion will meet  
all of the required National Security Agency SCIF standards."

I can imagine a number of scenarios, I guess, from leaching budget  
from one agency to cover another, to "entrepreneurial" efforts to  
make use of excess facilities by renting to other agencies, but I  
can't imagine a lot of reasons for Fish & Wildlife to use a one itself.

As a metacomment, I'm seeing a lot of solicitations with very tight  
deadlines, e.g., this one came out today, it's got a (presumably  
necessary) meeting for vendors in two weeks, which doesn't much allow  
for anyone who hasn't already got this on the radar to respond.

Ross



----
Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
http://www.stapleton-gray.com
http://www.sortingdoor.com





-------------------------------------------