Defense Tech: NSA Employee Charged With Giving Wife $340,000 Contract
Via WBAL.com (WBAL Radio and The Associated Press).
An NSA employee is accused of giving his wife's company a $340,000 contract for work on a computer security exercise he directed, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Tuesday.More here.
Wayne J. Schepens, 37, of Severna Park is scheduled for an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court on the conflict of interest charge. Schepens faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, said Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office.
Schepens co-created the Cyber Defense Exercise in 2000 for the National Security Agency, the secretive Department of Defense spy agency.
The annual competition involved teams from participating military academies who tried to protect their computer networks from attacks by teams of hackers, generally NSA employees and military reservists, according to court documents.
Background here, here, here, here, and here.
posted by Fergie @ 2/06/2007 06:35:00 PM
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