RFI – Telephony Metadata Collection Program
February 7, 2014
In his remarks on January 17, 2014, President Obama announced a number of actions with regards to certain intelligence activities, including the bulk collection of telephony metadata under Section 215. As part of this effort, the President directed the development of “options for a new approach that can match the capabilities and fill the gaps that the Section 215 program was designed to address without the government holding this metadata”.
Consistent with this direction, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is seeking information about whether existing commercially available capabilities can provide for a new approach to the government’s telephony metadata bulk collection program under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, without the government holding the metadata.
Solicitation Number: ODNI-RFI-14-01 Agency: Office of the Director of National IntelligenceOffice: ADNI Acquisition Technology & FacilitiesLocation: AT&F Buying Office
This RFI is intended to obtain information on U.S. industry’s existing commercially available capabilities that could provide viable alternative approaches to the current Section 215 program without the government holding the metadata, while maintaining the current capabilities of that system and the existing protections for U.S. persons.
Responses to this RFI will be reviewed and may help to shape the framework for the future telephony metadata program to include the potential for non-government maintenance of that data.
The Request for Information was posted to FedBizOpps.gov on February 5, 2014.