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SCP-2076 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-2076
Expected annual
$28.8M
One-time setup
$58.6M
Annual recurring
$27.3M
Personnel
48
Initial setup is dominated by a large containment reserve and facility buildouts (~$58.6M one-time). Recurring annual costs are substantial (~$27.3M/yr), driven mainly by continuous statewide monitoring, weekly disinformation buys, and long-term medical/amnestics care.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $58.6M
Containment Failure Reserve $50.0M
[#26] Large catastrophic contingency reserve deployed/prepositioned (lower-bound reserve chosen $50M).
Facilities $5.3M
[#1, #11] Central monitoring operations center fit-out and secure psychiatric wing build-out (central ops $3.5M + psychiatric wing $1.8M).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#4, #17] Automated detection / ML development (one-time dev $1.5M) and behavioral/memetics lab equipment ($500k).
Transport Fleet $400K
[#20] Purchase of mobile assets/armored transport (distinct from small field vans/tools).
Insurance And Offbooks Setup $300K
[#24] One-time setup of front companies, insurance wrappers and off-ledger infrastructure.
Equipment $270K
[#6, #14] Field vans & tools ($120k) and wearable device purchases (bulk provisioning ~$150k).
Legal Entity Setup $150K
[#10] One-time setup of shell entities / briefing docs for cover/FOIA handling.
Encryption And Opsec Hardware $150K
[#19] One-time secure-communications hardware, crypto key management devices and satcom terminals.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $27.3M/yr
Staff Wages $5.5M/yr
[#2, #3, #12, #17, #18, #25] Salaries and fully-burdened wages for 24/7 monitoring analysts (18), technical ops (6), psychiatric & medical staff, research personnel, cyber/forensics staff and internal auditors.
Supplies And Consumables $4.2M/yr
[#13, #23] Long-term amnestic pharmaceuticals & medical consumables (bulk program-wide estimate $4.0M/yr) plus physical evidence disposal/incineration (~$150k/yr).
Disinformation Protocol Weekly $4.0M/yr
[#8] Weekly CEIRT-27-04 production & distribution (weekly buys/production ~$4.0M/yr chosen in mid-range).
Digital Billboard And Ad Suppression $2.6M/yr
[#7] Paid ad buys / suppression and transit-ad operations across digital signage (~$2.6M/yr assumed for moderate statewide coverage).
Emergency Response Reserve Contribution $2.5M/yr
[#15] Annual contribution / maintenance for mobile emergency response & mass-containment readiness (program reserve build/refresh).
Misc Administrative Overhead $1.5M/yr
[#27] Utilities, HR, travel, small-office supplies and program overhead (~$1.5M/yr).
Research And Monitoring $1.4M/yr
[#4, #17] Ongoing automated detection compute & maintenance (~$900k/yr) plus non-wage behavioral research recurring costs (~$500k/yr).
Covert Liaison And Media Contracts $800K/yr
[#9] Retainers and influence budgets for media, ISPs and ad vendors (~$800k/yr).
Public Health Contracts $800K/yr
[#16] Contracts and retainers with hospitals, EMS and clinics for clandestine transfers (~$800k/yr).
Psychiatric Inpatient Operations $700K/yr
[#11] Operating costs for inpatient psychiatric containment per-facility (non-staff overhead for beds/onsite pharmacy/etc.).
Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr
[#10] Recurring legal/FOIA team costs, litigation reserves and cover-story legal fees (~$600k/yr).
Logistics And Transport $550K/yr
[#6, #20] Field removal/mitigation operations (labor/fuel/permits ~$400k/yr) plus fleet maintenance/fuel/insurance (~$150k/yr).
Containment Failure Reserve Maintenance $500K/yr
[#26] Ongoing management and carry costs for catastrophic reserve (account maintenance, interest shortfall coverage).
Ingestion Bandwidth And Storage $400K/yr
[#5] Continuous stream ingestion, bandwidth and cold-storage for forensic retention (~$400k/yr).
Counter Cyber Operations $300K/yr
[#18] Non-wage cyber incident response, tool subscriptions and forensic tooling (~$300k/yr; staff wages portion allocated to staff_wages).
Public Compensation And Settlements $300K/yr
[#22] Contingency for public compensation, payoffs or restitution (~$300k/yr).
Auditing And Oversight $300K/yr
[#25] Internal auditing, compliance and oversight operations (~$300k/yr).
Insurance And Offbooks Maintenance $200K/yr
[#24] Ongoing maintenance for front-company structures, off-books funds and insurance (~$200k/yr).
Training And Personnel Security $100K/yr
[#21] Annual memetic-hazard training programs and security-clearance sponsorship (~$100k/yr).
Wearable Connectivity $50K/yr
[#14] Ongoing cellular connectivity and cloud telemetry for patient wearables (~$50k/yr).
Encryption Services $25K/yr
[#19] Recurring secure comms services and subscriptions (~$25k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $27.3M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, weekly disinformation, and steady patient care; no major containment events.
steady monitoring weekly bowdlerization routine patient care
🚨 Minor Incident $30.3M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Localized surge or concentrated outbreak requiring additional ad buys, mobile response teams and short-term increased amnestic deployments.
localized mass contagion spike in media instances increased legal/settlement activity
🚨 Major Breach $87.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$60.0M vs baseline
Widespread transmission statewide requiring emergency reserve drawdown, mass amnestic deployment, national-level PR and large emergency medical capacity.
statewide/widespread memetic transmission mass psychosis incidents containment breach requiring reserve deployment
👥 Personnel 48 total
Role Count Notes
Monitoring Analyst / Operator 18 [#2] 24/7 monitoring shifts for statewide media ingestion and escalation.
Technical Operations (Sysadmin / AI Engineer / Signal Specialist) 6 [#3] Maintain detection pipelines, ingestion, transcoding and on-call support.
Research Scientist 4 [#17] Behavioral/memetics research and model development staff.
Counter-Cyber / Forensics Analyst 5 [#18] Digital forensics, takedown and offensive cyber teams (staff portion).
Psychiatrist / Medical Officer 3 [#12] Psychiatrists to design/amend amnestic regimens and oversee care.
Nurse / Technician 8 [#12] Nursing and technical staff for long-term amnestic administration and monitoring.
Pharmacist / Neurologist 2 [#12] Drug formulation, infusion oversight and neurologic monitoring.
Internal Auditor / Compliance 2 [#25] Annual auditing, oversight and internal compliance staff.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and program structure, enabling moderate confidence in recurring staffing and operational estimates; however large uncertainties remain in the scale/frequency of mass incidents and the chosen catastrophic reserve amount, so overall confidence is medium.
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