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SCP-5889 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5889
Expected annual
$11.1M
One-time setup
$12.8M
Annual recurring
$10.8M
Personnel
36
One-time setup is sizable (~$12.8M) driven mainly by AI development, RF/DF infrastructure, SIGINT reserve and a memetic countermeasures seed program; recurring costs (~$10.8M/yr) are dominated by staff wages, AI operations, ongoing SIGINT/monitoring and contingency R&D and liability reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $12.8M
Equipment $4.0M
[#2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #20] Includes air-gapped/hardened servers & secure storage ($375k), RF monitoring node installation and hardware ($2,000,000), mobile DF vans outfitting ($1,350,000), drone fleet ($125k), amnestic compounding/stockpile hardware ($87,500) and PPE/playback kit buildout ($70k).
Memetic Countermeasures Seed $3.0M
[#22] Seed funding for speculative countermeasure R&D (vaccines/therapies) as a dedicated program startup.
Ai Development $2.1M
[#1] I/O METATRON core development, model training, secure integration and initial deployment (one-time engineering & deployment).
Facilities $1.2M
[#2, #9, #14] Includes Faraday/secure-room construction and memetic-safe lab buildout ($375k + $750k) and first-responder course development ($100k).
Sigint Reserve $1.0M
[#11] Initial reserve for SIGINT/satellite tasking and imagery campaigns (several taskings).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $600K
[#10] Research lab startup and initial experiment budget for cognitive/signal research.
Communications Filter Development $450K
[#17] Development and deployment of audio fingerprinting/takedown/filter systems (one-time development).
Legal Emergency And Lobbying $275K
[#12] One-time emergency approvals, lobbying and covert agreement setup costs.
Field Response Training Onboarding $125K
[#6] One-time training/onboarding for field response teams.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.8M/yr
Staff Wages $3.4M/yr
[#6, #8, #10, #25, #1] Salaries and benefits for field response teams, tele-psychiatry clinicians, research team, program management and core AI operations personnel.
Research And Monitoring $1.7M/yr
[#1, #3, #11, #23] Ongoing AI/cloud inference and retraining costs, RF network operational monitoring, recurring SIGINT tasking/campaigns and red-team testing/false-positive mitigation.
Contingency R&D Ongoing $1.2M/yr
[#22] Ongoing R&D budget for memetic countermeasures and therapeutic development.
Cover Story And Legal $925K/yr
[#12, #13] Annual legal retainers, covert agreements and public affairs/cover-up/media budgets.
Civil Liability Reserve $750K/yr
[#16] Annual contingency for civil liability, payouts and hush funds.
Logistics And Transport $650K/yr
[#4, #21] Fuel, drivers, vehicle ops for DF vans and nationwide travel/logistics (airfare, accommodations, shipments).
Incident Response Reserve $500K/yr
[#15] Reserve for emergency public-safety costs (ambulance, road closures, cleanup) per-year contingency.
Facilities Maintenance $488K/yr
[#2, #9, #4] Maintenance/upkeep for Faraday rooms/secure compute, memetic-safe lab upkeep and vehicle maintenance/garaging.
Physical Infrastructure Repairs $300K/yr
[#18] Budget for repairs/replacements and emergency clean-up from physical anomalous damage.
Supplies And Consumables $262K/yr
[#5, #7, #20] Drone consumables and spare parts, per-treatment amnestic consumables (100 treatments/yr estimate), and PPE/consumable replacement.
Insurance And Risk Capital $200K/yr
[#24] Institutional insurance premiums and reserve capital for catastrophic scenarios.
Training Programs $125K/yr
[#14] Ongoing first-responder training sessions, per-session costs and program operations.
Staff Health Program $120K/yr
[#19] Ongoing psychiatric screening, rotations and post-exposure care for staff.
Communications Filter Operations $100K/yr
[#17] Ongoing takedown operations, filtering ops and platform coordination.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.8M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, modest incident rate and no major multi-site events.
single-site detections routine deployments regular research and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $11.6M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$750K vs baseline
Localized significant incident requiring multiple field deployments, inpatient psychiatric care and additional amnestics/PR.
localized broadcast causing public panic multiple field responses inpatient psychiatric admissions
🚨 Major Breach $14.8M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Coordinated multi-site or high-severity event with large public exposure requiring SIGINT/satellite tasking, expanded DF operations, mass treatment and large liability payouts.
multi-site coordination mass Veil exposure large-scale civil liability
🚨 Sigint Escalation $14.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Discovery of non-terrestrial or hard-to-locate transmission requiring intensive SIGINT/satellite campaigns and extended analysis.
non-terrestrial RF signatures need for sustained SIGINT tasking rapid scale-up of monitoring
👥 Personnel 36 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 Field response personnel for rapid intervention and public safety response. Mapped to [#6].
Medical Officer / Paramedic 4 Medics embedded/attached to field teams for on-site care and amnestic administration. Mapped to [#6, #7].
Research Scientist 6 Cognitive scientists, signal engineers and linguists researching mechanism and mitigation. Mapped to [#10, #22].
AI Engineer / ML Ops 3 Develop and maintain I/O METATRON, model training and deployments. Mapped to [#1].
Clinical Psychologist / Psychiatrist 4 Tele-psychiatry clinicians for monitoring, counseling and inpatient oversight. Mapped to [#8].
Site Director / Administrative Staff 3 Program management, oversight, legal coordination and compliance staff. Mapped to [#25, #12].
Engineer / Maintenance 4 Technicians for RF nodes, Faraday rooms, vehicle and equipment maintenance. Mapped to [#2, #3, #4].
Drone Operator / Field Technician 4 Operators for aerial DF and reconnaissance missions. Mapped to [#5, #21].
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed order-of-magnitude ranges allowing a mid-confidence estimate; uncertainty remains around incident frequency, source modality (terrestrial vs non-terrestrial) and success rate of mitigation R&D, so figures are approximate.
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