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Subject: [iwar] [fc:CSC.Picked.for.Pentagon's.Cybercrime.Efforts]
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CSC Picked for Pentagon's Cybercrime Efforts


By Nick Wakeman,
Washington Technology Senior Editor
Friday, November 30, 2001; 5:53 PM

Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., has been tapped by the Defense
Department to provide computer investigation training for federal law
enforcement officials.

The procurement was under development before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
but its value more than doubled from about $40 million to $86.8 million as
Defense Department officials restructured the work to allow nondefense
agencies to send more investigators for training, said Robert Fout, senior
manager for CSC's Defense Computer Investigations Training Program team.

"The scope ballooned as a result of Sept. 11," Fout said.

The task order was awarded Nov. 29 under the General Services
Administration's Millennia contract and is for eight years if all options
are exercised, GSA said. CSC has been providing forensic and computer
investigation training to the Defense Deparment since September 1998.

Training covers issues such as computer search and seizure, computer
intrusions and forensics computer media analysis.

The training is provided to the investigative arms of the Air Force, Army
and Navy as well as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the 902nd
Military Intelligence Group, Fout said.

With the higher contract ceiling on the task order, more civilian agencies
are expected to take courses at the training center in Linthicum, Md., he
said. State and local law enforcement agencies also will be able to use the
center.

"This really is a national asset," he said of the center.

CSC also is planning to develop online and distance learning capabilities
for students to keep up with changes in technology after they have finished
their courses and left the center, Fout said.

While CSC does not have teammates, the company works with Veridian Corp. of
Arlington, Va., on computer forensics issues, he said. CSC is a
subcontractor to Veridian for the work it does at the Defense Computer
Forsenics Laboratory.

"This is a growing area; it is not something that is going to go away," Fout
said.

At the Defense Computer Investigations Training Program center, CSC will
have about 35 instructors and support personnel.

The instructors have to combine the ability to teach with a background in
law enforcement and technical proficiency.


"They are a very rare breed," Fout said



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