- Near real-time access to data.
- Correlation of data with varying provider data formats.
- Simultaneous or near-simultaneous real-time access to data across multiple provider-stored data sets.
- Secure storage and access for U.S. telephone metadata records for "a sufficient period of time."
- A provider that can: "Meet rigorous security and auditability standards to ensure that no queries take place without appropriate authorization and no data is provided to the Government unless in response to an authorized query while maintaining 99.9% availability."
Want to Store Secret NSA Metadata?
[caption id="attachment_17137" align="aligncenter" width="600"] National Security Agency HQ, Ft. Meade, Md. by night.[/caption] In a Jan. 17 speech on the National Security Administration (NSA) eavesdropping scandals, President Obama announced the agency could continue collecting data, but would have to pay a non-governmental agency to store it. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is now trying to figure out a contractor to take on that job, and how much it would cost. In a request for information (RFI) issued Feb. 5 (Telephony Metadata Collection Program, ODNI-RFI-14-01), the NSA's parent organization announced it was looking for ideas about how to " provide for a new approach to the government's telephony metadata collection program under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, without the government holding the metadata, while maintaining the current capabilities of that system and the existing protections for U.S. persons." The RFI specifically asks for existing commercial services, not a service to be developed in answer to its specifications, and is not asking anyone else to actually collect the data. Additional items on its wish list include: