Ntrepid

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NTREPID
Official Website: http://ntrepidcorp.com/
Official about page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntrepid
Country: Please specify country
Location: HQ: 12801 WORLDGATE DR, SUITE 800, HERNDON VA 20170 USA

9276 Scranton Road, Suite 600, San Diego , California 92121 USA

Founded: 2010
Business: Intelligence Community "Persona Management Software" (sock puppet software) for surveillance, Social Engineering (PsyOps) of people using Social Media, Tracking, Data-Mining, NLP Translation...
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Background

ABRAXAS is the parent company of NTREPID CORP/NTREPID CORPORATION. In 2010 the CUBIC CORPORATION acquired ABRAXAS.

Ntrepid is a US software, hardware, and cyber security company, registered in Los Angeles, Florida, Texas, Maryland and Arizona and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia with CT Corporation acting as their Registered Agent. See various States incorporations here

" Ntrepid Corporation provides national security and law enforcement customers with software, hardware, and managed services for cyber operations, analytics, language technologies, and tracking systems." AFCEA 2011

  • See also, ProjectPM wiki in reference to Ntrepid being used by Team Themis and US Rep Johnson's investigation [1]

Ntrepid on Linked-In


NTREPID has numerous subsidiary companies, including

NTREPID TARTAN

NTREPID ANONYMIZER

NTREPID / ABRAXAS EDGE Research & Development (R&D)

"Edge Research & Development is a division of Abraxas Corporation with a strong foundation across software engineering, federal law enforcement, cyber security and computer forensics..."

NTREPID VIRTUS


"Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows. But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we can’t tell you: That’s “classified,” a CENTCOM spokesman recently informed Raw Story.

One use that’s confirmed, however, is the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online “personas” managed by the military. Raw Story recently reported that the US Air Force had solicited private sector vendors for something called “persona management software.” Such a technology would allow single individuals to command virtual armies of fake, digital “people” across numerous social media portals... Video and Nibiru: Video about Persona Management Software

This contract was awarded to a firm called Ntrepid” Speaks wrote to Raw Story. “In addition to the classified activities this software supports, USCENTCOM, like most military commands, does use social media to inform the public of our activities. I should emphasize that such uses do not employ the kind of technology that was the subject of this contract solicitation.”

Ntrepid Corporation, registered out of Los Angeles, bills itself as a privacy and identity protection firm in some job postings, and a national security contractor in others, but its official website was amazingly just one page deep and free of even a single word of description.

In spite of their thin online presence, Speaks said the firm was awarded $2,760,000 to carry out the “persona management” contract." RawStory


"The article names the California-registered Ntrepid Corporation as a recipient of a contract for the project. The California corporate registry lists an office in Tysons Corner, Virginia as the physical location of the company. A search for the company’s name on Virginia’s corporate registry turns up an entry (ID: F184248-5) with a listing of its director and officers. The names are as follows:

Richard H. Helms (director and officer)

Wesley R. Husted (officer)

Margaret A. Lee (officer)

As it turns out, Richard Helms was previously the founder and CEO of the Virginia-based Abraxas Corporation. Wesley Husted was at one point its CFO. So, what is the Abraxas Corporation and what do they do? Its web site declares itself to be primarily concerned with information security and risk assessment. A June 2004 article in the International Herald Tribune identified it as a “small compan[y] made up almost entirely of former senior CIA officers [...] in McLean, Virginia.” It further named one of its experts, Mary Nayak, as a former head of the Directorate of Intelligence’s South Asia group who had recently been hired as a consultant to the CIA’s 9/11 review group. According to an extensive profile of the company published in the LA Times in September 2006:" CEInquiry

"The CENTCOM contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries...

"Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at 'countering extremist ideology and propaganda'. Guardian

Products

  • Patent application title: Persona management system for communications

TARTAN 2.0 Datasheet pdf

Example Clientpdf "Case Study: Anarchist Groups in the U.S. Tartan was used to reveal a hidden network of relationships among anarchist leaders of seemingly unrelated movements. The study exposed the affiliations within this network that facilitate the viral spread of violent and illegal tactics to the broader protest movement in the United States."

NTREPID TARTAN - Quantifying Influence

Countries using Products

Reports

  • March 18, 2011 Report: Military Software Will Create Fake Online Identities Overseas For Pro-American Messages Mediate.com
  • March 17, 2011 "Anonymous, The Military And Fake Virtual Armies" Forbes
  • March 17, 2011 US Spy Operation that manipulates Social Networks Guardian
  • March 17, 2011 Abraxis to NTrepid Corp Sock Puppets CE Inquiry
  • March 17, 2011 U.S. Military Program Creates Online Sock Puppets To Counter ‘Enemy Propaganda’ TechCrunch
  • PROPRIETARY 3 The Real World is Anonymous ©2011 Ntrepid Corporation. All rights reserved.
  • PROPRIETARY 4 A Search History is Forever ©2011 Ntrepid Corporation.Wikileaks SpyFiles
  • WikiLeaks SpyFiles

PATENTS

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Tech and Business Partners

People Responsible

"Ntrepid’s chief technology officer, Lance Cottrell, founded the privacy firm Anonymizer, Inc. in 1995, making him a global leader in identity protection and cryptography. He also runs theprivacyblog.com." RawStory

"Lance Cottrell develops Internet privacy systems. Cottrell launched the first commercial privacy service, Anonymizer.com, in 1995 while studying towards a PhD in Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego. Cottrell was the original coder for the Mixmaster anonymous remailer and designed version 1 Mixmaster Protocol. Cottrell established the Kosovo Privacy Project which, using internet anonymizer services, allowed individuals to report from the 1999 Kosovo war zone without fear of retaliation.

Cottrell's company Anonymizer Inc. was acquired by Abraxas Corporation in April 2008 and Cottrell now serves as Chief Scientist for the company..." Wikipedia


Richard Helms is the founder and CEO of the Virginia-based Abraxas Corporation. Businessweek

Richard H. Helms of McLean, Virginia-based Abraxas Corporation was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006 national winner in the Emerging category.

Is an "adviser" with Intelligent Edge Advisers LLC "Intelligent Edge Securities, LLC is a U.S. registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC." Businessweek


  • Wesley R. Husted, Ntrepid officer and former CFO of Abraxas Corporation


  • Margaret A. Lee (officer)


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