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Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams." DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.

Boycott Citizens@boycottcitizens.org

🚨 DHS is planning to spend $100M+ for intelligence analysts for what looks like a previously unknown unit within Enforcement and Removal Operations called Overwatch and National Security Enforcement (ERO ONE). Source: apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/75521...

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Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

Let me break down why, even based off the limited information this ad notice provides, we can assume that this is going to be a cataclysmic thing for non-citizens and citizens alike.

Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

We spent a few months reading through DHS work statements and FOIA docs to piece together this map of many — not all — of the different data ingest points they have at their disposal to aggregate data. Things like ALPRs, data scraping, biometrics, OSINT, LEO databases, etc, and AI tools.

Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

What the proposed contract in the OP describes is a target team that would operationalize all of that data and more to provide predictive, live, and near-real-time intelligence support to ICE ERO in the field. Where 'targets' currently are, who is with them, patterns of life, etc.

Fankoosh
@fankoosh.bsky.social

F3EAD as practiced in Iraq, Afghanistan, & elsewhere is an industrial-scale process for turning guilt by association into body counts. Applying it here has obvious implications.