{"id":38867,"date":"2020-12-17T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-home-office-chucks-us-firm-leidos-30m-for-help-snooping-on-comms-data\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:30:08","slug":"uk-home-office-chucks-us-firm-leidos-30m-for-help-snooping-on-comms-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-home-office-chucks-us-firm-leidos-30m-for-help-snooping-on-comms-data\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Home Office chucks US firm Leidos \u00a330m for help snooping on comms data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Home Office has handed a \u00a330m contract to engineering and IT outfit Leidos to help government agencies access and analyse communications data for combatting terrorism and organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the managed services deal is a plan to smooth the &#8220;efficiency&#8221; with which government agents can access telecoms data.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office&#8217;s National Communications Data Service (NCDS) launched the Agile Data Retention and Disclosure Services (&#8220;ARDS&#8221; \u2013 yes, we know the acronym doesn&#8217;t work) last year with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:522788-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prior information notice<\/a> to the market.<\/p>\n<p>It said the ARDS would &#8220;allow Telecom Operators to be on-boarded and off-boarded rapidly&#8221; providing services the Home Office hoped would support &#8220;collaborative ways of working&#8221; with telcos and tech suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>The project falls under the remit of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism. Within it, the National Communications Data Service&#8217;s job is to provide a service that gives security, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies legal access to communications data.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;requesting agencies&#8221; must have the &#8220;ability to identify and locate subjects of interest and determine how and when they are communicating through the acquisition and exploitation of communications data,&#8221; the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:609104-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&amp;src=0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contract award notice<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is in part designed to help &#8220;keep up with changing technology&#8230; vital to the work these agencies do to protect the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Communications data has been shown to be a particularly rich and reliable source of data that can be used by investigators to develop actionable intelligence and\/or build a compelling evidential case to bring offenders to justice,&#8221; the notice said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It] has played a role in every major Security Service counter-terrorism operation over the past decade. 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