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SCP-8118 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-8118
Expected annual
$4.9M
One-time setup
$36.8M
Annual recurring
$4.6M
Personnel
7
Initial capital is driven by procurements and infrastructure (notably deployable SRAs and GIVEN CRY procurement/R&D); yearly operations are dominated by SRA maintenance, staff wages, and ongoing R&D/analysis. One-time costs are roughly $36.8M with recurring operations roughly $4.61M/yr under a conservative minimal-SRA posture.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $36.8M
Equipment $32.5M
[#2, #3, #4, #5, #9, #11, #13, #15, #20, #21] Perimeter hardware installation, off-grid power generator/UPS, procurement of GIVEN CRY field units and spares, initial contingent of deployable/modified SRAs and vehicles, hardened recording kits, initial PPE/decon setup, training/simulation hardware setup, comms hardware, initial forensics containment cabinet, and redundancy/cold-storage media purchases.
Decommissioning Reserve $2.0M
[#19] Long-term decommissioning / end-of-containment reserve for demolition, remediation or large-scale neutralization planning.
Facilities $1.5M
[#1, #17] Site stabilization/structural rehab and property purchase/holding costs (shoring, safe ingress/egress, asbestos remediation; land purchase or equivalent initial outlay).
Contingency Emergency Reserve $500K
[#18] One-time emergency reserve fund for lost-Observer recoveries and surge responses (initial fund allocation).
Cover Story Initial $300K
[#16] Initial front-company formation and cover-story establishment / legal setup.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.6M/yr
Facilities Maintenance $1.6M/yr
[#2, #3, #5, #17] Perimeter hardware maintenance, generator/fuel/testing, annual maintenance/vehicle ops and crew training for SRA contingent, and routine property upkeep.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #20, #24] GIVEN CRY calibration/maintenance, replacement/hardened recording consumables, data analysis and lab time for recovered corrupted logs, training ops, red-team exercises, forensics budget, and standing R&D into countermeasures/sensing.
Staff Wages $725K/yr
[#6, #7, #22] Salaries/hazard pay/retention for the Observer and support on-call/deployment team plus program administrative/staff overhead.
Logistics And Transport $525K/yr
[#5, #12] Annual transport/airlift for the mission and vehicle operations/ops related to rapid-deploy SRA assets.
Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr
[#16, #23] Ongoing cover-story/local liaison costs, legal contingency, amnestic program scaling / media management and incident suppression baseline budget.
Medical And Psych Care $140K/yr
[#8] Psychological screening, long-term psychiatric care, amnestic treatments, post-mission monitoring per-Observer plus program reserve for serious cases.
Supplies And Consumables $68K/yr
[#11, #21, #25] PPE consumables, biohazard disposals, replacement media/rotation and miscellaneous consumables/spares.
Communications Security $15K/yr
[#15] Satellite/secure comms recurring costs, leased links and burst/backup service contracts.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.6M/yr
94.0% probability / year
Normal year with annual entry, routine maintenance, training and no major incidents.
routine_mission no_GIVEN_CRY_use standard_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $7.1M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Activation of GIVEN CRY or localized containment surge requiring emergency SRA activation and incident response but no full-scale breach or decommissioning.
GIVEN_CRY_activation localized_structural_or_psych_incident emergency_SRA_surge
🚨 Major Breach $16.6M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$12.0M vs baseline
Lost-Observer or major containment failure requiring large-scale emergency response, decommissioning planning, and extensive public containment/suppression.
lost_observer forced_decommissioning major_public_exposure
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Observer 1 [#6] Single assigned Observer (full-time pay/hazard/retention included in staff_wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#7] On-call security standby for missions (part of support personnel wages).
Medic 1 [#7] Medic on standby/deployment per mission (support personnel wages).
Engineer / Technician 1 [#7] Field technician for staging, generator and equipment support (support personnel wages).
Administrative Staff 2 [#22] Program management, procurement and FLAT BOX oversight (salaries/overhead included in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed ranges and primary drivers, allowing order-of-magnitude estimates, but major uncertainties remain (true SRA provisioning choice, GIVEN CRY R&D scope, and situational incident frequency), so confidence is medium.
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