TASC engr

For his part, after <a target="blank" href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/k-k-r-hires-petraeus/">putting</a> his extramarital affair behind him, Petraeus became a <a target="blank" href="https://next.ft.com/content/e9104f78-11fe-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173">partner</a>

at the private equity firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. L.P.

(KKR), where he also serves as the chairman of the KKR Global Institute

and, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kkr.com/our-firm/leadership/david-h-petraeus">according</a>

to his bio, “oversees the institute's thought leadership platform

focused on geopolitical and macro-economic trends, as well as

environmental, social, and governance issues.”  His lieutenants include a

former chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign

manager for President George W. Bush, as well as a former leading light

at Morgan Stanley.

KKR’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kkr.com/businesses/private-equity/kkr-portfolio" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">portfolio</a>

boasts a bit of everything, from Alliant Insurance Services and

Panasonic Healthcare to a host of Chinese firms (Rundong Automobile

Group and Asia Dairy, among them).  There are also defense firms under

its umbrella, including TASC, the self-proclaimed “premier provider of

advanced systems engineering and integration services across the

Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and civilian agencies of

the federal government,” and Airbus Group’s defense electronics business

which KKR recently <a target="_blank" href="http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/kkr-is-buying-airbus-defense-electronics-business-for-1-2-billion/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">bought</a> for $1.2 billion. 
===http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/kkr-is-buying-airbus-defense-electronics-business-for-1-2-billion/
Private equity firm KKR

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    has agreed to buy Airbus Group’s <span class="tickershortcode quotecard_hook" data-symbol="eadsy">
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    defense electronics business for 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), the European aerospace group said on Friday.</font><br/>

The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of next

year, Airbus said in a statement, adding it may keep a minority stake.

“Defense Electronics is a strong, profitable business with

significant growth potential, and we are convinced that KKR and the

Defense Electronics management team and employees will continue to

strongly develop the business,” Bernhard Gerwert, head of Airbus Defense

and Space, sai...
bb<p id="12e7" class="hu hv dg bt hw b hx ng hz nh ni nj nk nl nm nn ih" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.58;">1. I explicitly warned about the contracting firm Archimedes in 2011, in an article on the Romas/COIN capability for The Guardian and a more extensive report on Echelon2.org, the website on which my org Project PM compiled our research. The longer report can be found at http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Romas/COIN and the HBGary emails from which this largely derives may be found at Emma Best’s site, or Wikileaks if you’re feeling nostalgic, but at any rate key portions are quoted or summarized there. Romas was a data mining, surveillance, and propaganda apparatus of rather impressive complexity, operated for an unknown U.S. government client by Northrop.2. Between February of 2011, when a hack by some of my old acquaintances revealed Glenn had been among those targeted by the rather baroque Team Themis consortium (Palantir, HBGary, Endgame Systems, Berico), and June 2012, I occasionally discussed with Glenn other firms and technologies that had been discovered in the HBGary emails stolen by Anonymous and supplemented by tax filings, patents, recorded phone calls I made to execs at TASC, Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, etc. In April of 2012, I sent him a Guardian piece I’d written that provided an update of relevance to him (the Palantir employee the firm blamed as solely responsible for the firm’s role in targeting Glenn and others, Matthew Steckman, and thereafter put “on leave” or “suspension” pending an “investigation”, had been rehired; later, in prison, I would learn that he had since been promoted; a few weeks ago I learned he was now at another firm, Anduril, made up largely of ex-Palantir employees and involved mostly in building AI for drones that catch immigrants). <p id="12e7" class="hu hv dg bt hw b hx ng hz nh ni nj nk nl nm nn ih" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.58;">The article also made one more pass at trying to get people interested in “persona management”, which had been discovered by a Daily Kos user on Feb 16, picked up via our various Anonymous IRC networks and Twitter accounts immediately thereafter, fleshed out a bit by Raw Story on Feb 17 (which made clear that this was a crowd-sourced discovery, along with much of what had been determined about the program thus far, and then, uh, discovered again by The Guardian on March 17 (“Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media”). The two reporters at Guardian made no mention of the Daily Kos fellow, or Raw Story, or any of the individuals who had been putting out material on this since, in public, with the intent of bringing it to widespread attention, and who were indeed already under investigation by FBI and various European agencies (me, Jake Davis/Topiary, and a Norwegian 16-year-old called Whitekidney). They did discover (I think) that the firm that won this contract for CENTCOM— which involves deploying fake online people with highly developed backgrounds, software that allows a single person to easily control ten such avatars (usually called personas back then) — was Ntrepid, but the two writers couldn’t figure out They couldn’t figure it out because they were two writers, and somewhat shabby ones. They weren’t a crowd-sourced research network, as Project PM now was; no single journalist is. Two journalists aren’t, either, even with an editor thrown in. I know that many in the press believe this is adequate. This would not even be true were the press a meritocracy.<p id="12e7" class="hu hv dg bt hw b hx ng hz nh ni nj nk nl nm nn ih" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.58; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I ended my last email reply to Greenwald thus: