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Pentagon Police Agency Hit by 'Catastrophic' Network Outage
netgov ^ | May 6, 2014 | Bob Brewin

Posted on 05/06/2014 1:13:57 PM PDT by don-o

The agency that manages the Pentagon Police Department and also runs networks and computers for the Office of the Secretary of Defense experienced a “catastrophic network technological outage” on Jan. 3, and repairs may not be complete until January 2015, an obscure document on the Federal Business Opportunities website revealed.

A Defense Department spokesman attributed the outage to the failure of a legacy component.

The contracting document, posted on May 2, said the outage experienced by the Pentagon Life Safety System Network and Life Safety Backbone left the Pentagon Force Protection Agency “without access to the mission-critical systems needed to properly safeguard personnel and facilities, rendering the agency blind across the national capital region.”

The Force Protection Agency provides security and services to 100 military buildings in Washington, Maryland and Virginia.

The agency estimated it would take six to 12 months to “effect repairs and to upgrade the network core to mitigate future outage risks.” Repairs include recovery of data after the catastrophic network technological outage and upgrade and replacement of switches and routers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nextgov.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201401; 20140103; fpa; pentagon; pentagonpolice; pfpa; secdef

1 posted on 05/06/2014 1:13:57 PM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

Chuck Hagel cannot address this problem, as he is too busy making more plans to force sodomy down the throats of the military.


2 posted on 05/06/2014 1:16:57 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: don-o

And we would be publicising this, why?


3 posted on 05/06/2014 1:19:59 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: don-o

Well, that’s convenient. Going to make is harder to get at all the info on Bengazi and the WH’s policy of building better enemies through cooperation and weapons.


4 posted on 05/06/2014 1:20:21 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: don-o

5 posted on 05/06/2014 1:28:22 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: don-o

Those 8088 IBM PC’s finally gave up the ghost.....................


6 posted on 05/06/2014 1:29:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: don-o

“... a new network design that minimizes single point failure, including dual homing, which reduces the risk of failure.”

LOL...Are you kidding me?

Who in the Hell doesn’t provide contingency pathing, in the event of catastrophic failure?


7 posted on 05/06/2014 1:34:26 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: don-o

Although this little set back will not preclude the normal issuance of bonuses.


8 posted on 05/06/2014 1:37:42 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Surgeon General Warning: Use of Planned Parenthood is hazardous to unborn black fetuses.)
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To: TexasCajun

LOL!

Funny.

Should DHCP on x.25 as well.... /S


9 posted on 05/06/2014 1:37:45 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

The same people who don’t do double entry bookkeeping...


10 posted on 05/06/2014 1:46:21 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: TexasCajun

Not making vacuum tubes, germanium transistors, and punch cards anymore is coming back to haunt them. Silicon? Who the hell would make electronics out of sand? That’s crazy talk!


11 posted on 05/06/2014 1:51:37 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: don-o

U-2 over Washington, DC?


12 posted on 05/06/2014 1:54:08 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Vendome
LOL...Are you kidding me? Who in the Hell doesn’t provide contingency pathing, in the event of catastrophic failure?

That's why this stinks to high heaven. There is no possible way the Pentagon Police would not have state of the art computer infrastructure.

Reminds me of the time NASA claimed it "missed" Mars because a contractor used metric instead of standard measurements. Yeah, right. Because it's not like there are about ten thousand parameter checks before launch, and that the mission didn't use multiple waypoint confirmations during the flight. It was only when Mars was actually in sight that the computer system shrieked and said, "there's a standard measurement in here" and - supposedly - crashed.

Arrogant fricking bureaucrats don't even bother to come up with reasonable lies anymore.

13 posted on 05/06/2014 1:58:30 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: don-o

Just a moment... Just a moment... I've just picked up a fault in the EA-35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure within 72 hours.

14 posted on 05/06/2014 2:13:36 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: don-o
also runs networks and computers for the Office of the Secretary of Defense experienced a "catastrophic network technological outage" on Jan. 3, and repairs may not be complete until January 2015....

Whew, good thing that all the SECDEF files on Benghazi are backed up and will be available for the House Special Committee Hearings...wait, did they say Jan. 2015?

15 posted on 05/06/2014 2:15:48 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: null and void

Yer back!

Like Patton!


16 posted on 05/06/2014 3:34:28 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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