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Emerging Threats
Analysis: U.S. military to patrol Internet
WA****NGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is looking for a
contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of
forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.
"If someone wants to blow us up, we want to know about it," Robert
Hembrook, the deputy intelligence chief of the U.S. Army's Fifth
Signal Command in Mannheim, Germany, told United Press International.
In a solicitation posted on the Web last week, the command said it
was
looking for a contractor to provide "Internet awareness services" to
sup****t "force protection" -- the term of art for the security of
U.S.
military installations and personnel.
"The purpose of the services will be to identify and *****s stated
and
implied threat, antipathy, unrest and other contextual data relating
to selected Internet domains," says the solicitation.
Hembrook was tight-lipped about the proposal. "The more we talk about
it, the less effective it will be," he said. "If we didn't have to
put
it out in public (to make the contract award), we wouldn't have."
He would not comment on the kinds of Internet sites the contractor
would be directed to look at but acknowledged it would "not (be) far
off" to assume violent Islamic extremists would be at the top of the
list.
The solicitation says the successful contractor will "analyze various
Web pages, chat rooms, blogs and other Internet domains to aggregate
and *****s data of interest," adding, "The contractor will prioritize
foreign-language domains that relate to specific areas of concern =85
(and) will also identify new Internet domains" that might relate to
"specific local requirements" of the command.
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