Originally Posted by Loki

Well the project synopsis was posted by the Air Force in June of 2010, The Army posted a similar need synopsis (the Flash drive version) around the same time, as of October the Army's project was closed (meaning it got and accepted a bid)

To me, 4 months is not "fast" per say, BUT once you have the platform built (which it looks like they do have it now) it would ONLY take the time to create 10 fake personas, backstory info, maybe some photos (for effect) and creating the profile accounts...

It must have been inside the Army's synopsis (cause I don't see it in the Air Force's one) where they talked about wanting Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin accounts tied to each persona so the possibility of ending up becoming friends with one is not too far fetched lol.

But from all that I've read over the past days it LOOKS like they "army, air force" is going to use these personas on the blogasphere to sway, manipulate or create a consensus of their choosing.

Oh, and for anyone who can't understand WHY the Army / Air force would "need" something like this, it's not actually them, it was explained to me from a military friend of mine, "they" (meaning whoever REALLY ordered this platform) run stuff through the D.O.D to keep stuff 'secret' and off the record, and just because it was contracted BY the military has nothing to do if the military will be the ones using it.

Truth be told this is nothing new, "we've" been doing stuff like this for years now with fake surfer forums, splogs, posing as models etc etc, BUT not at this scale, "they" have streamlined viral marketing and packaged it up into a nice little flash drive.

Gotta love it

-Loki-