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      "id": 102661,
      "date": "2003-03-21",
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      "title": "Total Information Awareness Programs: Funding, Composition, and Oversight Issues",
      "summary": "Late last year controversy erupted about a Department of Defense (DOD) R&D effort\ncalled Total\nInformation Awareness (TIA) under an office headed by retired Admiral John D. Poindexter within\nthe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). By integrating various new tools\ndesigned to detect, anticipate, train for, and provide warnings about potential terrorist attacks,\nDARPA hopes to develop a prototype Total Information Awareness system. This system would\nintegrate a number of ongoing R&D efforts, referred to in this paper as Total Information\nAwareness\nprograms. While concern has centered primarily on privacy issues, accounts of the program's\nfunding have also differed. This report covers the funding, composition, oversight, and technical\nfeasibility of TIA programs. The privacy implications are addressed in  CRS Report RL31730 ,\n Privacy: Total Information Awareness Programs and Related Information Access, Collection,\nand\nProtection Laws,  by Gina Marie Stevens. \n  In a press interview, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics,\nEdward C. \"Pete\" Aldridge, stated that the Total Information Awareness project is funded at $10\nmillion in FY2003 and $20 million in FY2004. Other reports indicated higher funding levels of over\n$100 million in FY2003 and over $200 million for the three-year period, FY2001 - FY2003.\n  Different accounts of funding levels reflect the fact that DARPA is funding both an integrative\neffort called the TIA system, as well as 16 individual R&D efforts or TIA programs that could\nbe\ncombined to create that system. In FY2003, DARPA is dedicating $10 million to integrate various\nR&D efforts into a prototype TIA system, and $137.5 million for the various R&D\nprograms that\ncould make up that system and that are managed by the Information Awareness Office (IAO) headed\nby Poindexter. Funding for these programs total $137.5 million in FY2003 and $317.0 million for\nFY2001-FY2003. DOD is requesting $169.2 million for TIA programs in FY2004 and $170.3 in\nFY2005, and $20 million in FY2004 and $24.5 million in FY2005 for the TIA system integration.\nThese TIA programs are ongoing. \n  In response to concerns about TIA programs, Congress included special oversight provisions\n-- known as the Wyden amendment -- in the FY2003 Consolidated Appropriations Resolution ( P.L.\n108-7 ) requiring that the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence and the Attorney\nGeneral submit a detailed joint report on TIA programs by May 20, 2003, or face a cutoff in funding.\nSenator Feingold, Senator Grassley and other Members also proposed restrictions on data mining\nin the DOD and the new Department of Homeland Security.\n  In light of the report required by  P.L. 108-7 , hearings on TIA programs are likely in the 108th\nCongress. In addition to privacy concerns, Congress may also address several oversight issues for\nTIA programs including monitoring collaboration between DARPA and potential users in the law\nenforcement and intelligence communities and assessing the technical feasibility of the project. This\nreport will be updated as necessary.",
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