Homeland Security: Requirements for Security Decision Support Systems (2004)

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80 points·vs4vijay··7 comments

This doesn't appear to have much, if anything, to do with the so-called 'PRISM' everyone is talking about at the moment.

Also, the presentation has been freely available online for some time: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA465876

I cannot read it on this site, readable version on cryptome:

http://cryptome.org/2013/06/dhs-prism.pdf

Question for those in defense contracting: is there a style guide for writing such proposals and does one of its tips include: "Refer to 9/11 as often and as early as you can"?

This paper was apparently written by an Army officer, not a defense contractor (although he may work in acquisitions).

Believe it or not, many people who work in government and the defense industry spend a lot of time thinking about 9/11. Not so outlandish that this would show up in their writing.

Thinking about 9/11 and being concerned about 9/11 is not the same as using it as a rhetorical device four times in the first four paragraphs of the introduction. He's writing to a military audience, not to an audience who is unaware of 9/11's significance and how it may compare to Pearl Harbor

The screenshots in the documentation have IE browser with non-SSL URLs. Really shitty looking apps.

This is not the PRISM/US-984XN. This is decision support system for DHS with same name.

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