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SCP-7114 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7114
Expected annual
$16.2M
One-time setup
$7.7M
Annual recurring
$15.6M
Personnel
24
One-time setup and capital costs are substantial (~$7.7M), driven by datacenter, infrastructure, and contingency reserves; annual recurring costs are large (~$15.6M/yr) driven primarily by 24/7 specialist staffing, offensive/cyber capabilities, research, and global hosting/monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.7M
Contingency Reserve One Time $2.0M
[#17] Contingency/breach reserve (one-time allocation to seed emergency fund for large seizures/payouts).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.1M
[#7, #8, #11] One-time research/lab buildout: digital forensics lab hardware and instruments (#7), one-time specialized experiments (#8), and digital amnestic R&D initial budget (#11).
Datacenter Setup $1.0M
[#4] Initial private rack, networking, virtualization platform and on-prem deployment to mirror FP-99 nodes (midpoint estimate).
Monitoring Software Initial $900K
[#6] Initial development and platform build for distributed trackers, signatures, dashboards (one-time portion).
Sensor Network Setup $550K
[#14] Initial build of global sensor/crawler infrastructure, darknet monitors and licensing setup (one-time).
Power Redundancy One Time $475K
[#22] UPS, backup generator and physical datacenter hardening capital costs (one-time).
Honeypots Setup $275K
[#13] Initial deployment and configuration of deception infrastructure and safe mirrors.
Secure Workstations $240K
[#3] Hardened operator workstations for monitoring and backups (40 units × ~$6,000).
Endpoint Devices One Time $240K
[#19] Procurement of Foundation-managed devices (200 devices × $1,200) to replace personal devices.
Personnel Vetting Initial $240K
[#10] Initial background checks and high-clearance processing for core operators (24 personnel × midpoint vet cost).
Pki Hsm Setup $210K
[#15] HSM appliances and PKI setup for secure signing/key management (one-time).
Amnestic Medical Suite $150K
[#11] Medical suite and stockpile for physical amnestic administration and aftercare (one-time setup).
Archival Setup $150K
[#20] Air-gapped cold storage and tamper-evident long-term archive setup (one-time).
Filtering Integration One Time $100K
[#18] One-time integration of content-filtering engines into public-facing moderation tooling.
Facilities $0
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Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $15.6M/yr
Staff Wages $3.6M/yr
[#1] 24/7 Net Taskforce Gamma-96 personnel (24 full-time specialist operators) fully-burdened plus overtime/hazard adjustments.
Administrative Overhead $2.0M/yr
[#25] Administrative overhead (Site management, finance, procurement, HR) estimated at ~15% of operational baseline recurring costs.
On Call Response Readiness $2.0M/yr
[#2] Maintain 3 rapid-response escalation squads and readiness budget plus incident contingency averaged into yearly budget.
Offensive Cyber Budget $2.0M/yr
[#9] Operating budget for red-team, exploit procurement and offensive tooling (mid-range).
Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr
[#8] Ongoing R&D into anomalous behavior and protocols (cognitive/computational scientists, memetics specialists) — baseline recurring research budget.
Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr
[#12] Baseline legal/cover operations budget for takedowns, subpoenas, false-fronts, and settlements.
Software Maintenance And Dev $600K/yr
[#6] Ongoing development, SRE, QA for monitoring/containment software (4–6 FTEs equivalent).
Sensor Ops $600K/yr
[#14] Recurring feed licensing, crawling, and sensor ops across public/darknet and private endpoints.
Datacenter Hosting $400K/yr
[#4] Ongoing hosting, colocation, and cloud instances to mirror FP-99 nodes (baseline scale).
Bandwidth And Storage $360K/yr
[#5] Continuous capture, egress and durable storage for ~10 TB/day ingest (mid-range estimate).
Insurance Premiums $300K/yr
[#17] Insurance premiums and liability cover for data breaches/public harm (baseline).
Public Relations $300K/yr
[#23] PR/disinformation contingency budget to manage leaks and crisis narratives.
Health Mental Wellness $275K/yr
[#16] Personnel healthcare, counseling, decompression, rotation and turnover support for deckers.
Honeypots Maintenance $200K/yr
[#13] Ongoing maintenance and telemetry for deception infrastructure and safe mirrors.
Red Team Audit $200K/yr
[#21] Regular adversarial testing and independent audits for containment systems.
Moderation And Cover Ops $150K/yr
[#18] Ongoing moderation tooling and staff to audit/modify All-Authors Archive interactions under cover.
Scale Contingency Planning $150K/yr
[#24] Planning/design budget for scalability and rapid staffing/infrastructure expansion if SCP activity increases.
Endpoint Mdm $105K/yr
[#19] MDM licensing and device replacement program for Foundation-managed endpoints.
Forensics Consumables $100K/yr
[#7] Consumables, licenses, and cloud/GPU time for ongoing digital forensics work.
Personnel Training And Vetting $100K/yr
[#10] Annual recurrent training, recertification and continuous monitoring for Net Ops staff.
Amnestic Maintenance $100K/yr
[#11] Ongoing digital amnestic maintenance and supplies management; per-incident physical amnestic costs handled as incident-specific expenditures.
Power And Physical Security Maintenance $90K/yr
[#22] Fuel/maintenance and on-site physical security for on-prem racks and backup power.
Pki Maintenance $65K/yr
[#15] Key rotation, HSM maintenance and PKI operational security costs.
Archival Maintenance $30K/yr
[#20] Vaulting fees and periodic integrity checks for long-term evidence storage.
Secure Workstations Maintenance $24K/yr
[#3] Annual refresh/maintenance (~10%) for hardened operator hardware.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $15.6M/yr
53.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, average incident cadence already averaged into recurring budgets.
no_major_breach standard_incident_rate steady_research_and_ops
🚨 Minor Incident $16.1M/yr
40.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Single-to-moderate escalation requiring targeted raids, emergency legal actions, limited zero-day purchases and PR response.
targeted_physical_raid legal_settlement single_large_exploit_purchase
🚨 Major Breach $20.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or large-scale exposure requiring mass response: large ops, major settlements, rapid datacenter expansion and heavy zero-day purchases.
widespread_node_hopping public_leak massive_data_exfiltration
🚨 Scale Up $21.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$6.0M vs baseline
Sustained escalation in SCP activity requiring program expansion (doubling core operations for global coverage).
persistent_increase_in_node_hops demand_for_global_mirrors sustained_intelligence_gathering
👥 Personnel 24 total
Role Count Notes
Network/Intrusion Analyst 12 [#1] Analysts and intrusion/forensic specialists drawn from the 24-person Gamma-96 roster.
Virtual-World Operator / Decker 8 [#1] Operators providing FP-99 access and virtual containment duties (part of the 24).
Shift Lead / Team Lead 3 [#1] Shift leads to manage 8-hour rotation teams (included in Gamma-96 staffing).
Communications / Comms 1 [#1] Single communications/liaison role per core team (included in Gamma-96 staffing).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges for most costs, enabling a mid-confidence estimate; uncertainty remains due to the anomalous object's behavior, incident-driven expenditures (zero-day buys, large legal settlements), and scaling sensitivity.
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