Dr. Eowyn:
4 months ago, the agency charged with protecting the Pentagon “experienced a catastrophic network technological outage” that left “personnel and facilities” across the Washington metropolitan area at risk, but we’re only now finding out about it. Worse still, repairs may not be completed until January of next year!
Originally posted on Consortium of Defense Analysts:
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) describes itself as a civilian defense agency within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) charged with protecting and safeguarding the occupants, visitors, and infrastructure of 100 military buildings of the Pentagon, Navy Annex and other Pentagon facilities.
PFPA does all that with law enforcement officers (U.S. Pentagon Police); criminal investigative and protective services agents; threat management agents; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives technicians; anti-terrorism/force protection and physical security personnel.
What PFPA’s self-description leaves out is its reliance on a computer network system called the Pentagon Life Safety System Network (LSSN) and Life Safety Backbone (LSB), about which I did an Internet search but found nothing informative.
Four months ago on January 3, 2014, this all-important Pentagon Force Protection Agency experienced “a catastrophic network technological outage” that left “personnel and facilities” across the “National Capital Region” at risk. The National Capital Region refers to the Washington metropolitan area that includes…
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