SCP-9093 — SCP-9093 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9093 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-9093

Expected annual

$5.1M

One-time setup

$5.7M

Annual recurring

$5.0M

Personnel

Estimated one-time/setup costs are approximately $5,686,500 driven by facility fit-out, mobile jamming units, and a large contingency reserve; recurring annual costs are approximately $5,013,500 driven largely by specialist personnel wages, legal/cover operations, and contingency replenishment.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.7M

Contingency Reserve $2.8M

[#23] Lump-sum contingency reserve for escalations (12–18 month reserve) to cover large-scale spread or emergency total-blackout operations.

Mobile Jamming Units $750K

[#5] Purchase and integration of 2–3 mobile targeted jamming vehicle units (armored/unmarked vans with tunable high-power jammers).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $600K

[#16] Initial R&D lab buildout/testbed transmitters and experimental equipment to study demanifestation/window reduction and safe jamming methods.

Facilities $500K

[#1] Secure operations center fit-out near Greater Utica including Faraday shielding, racks, server space, and classified storage.

Equipment $282K

[#3, #11, #17] Spectrum monitoring hardware and analyzers (#3), secure communications equipment (#11), and initial data-capture/forensic hardware (#17) one-time purchases.

Fixed Jamming Nodes $230K

[#6] Pre-positioned portable jamming nodes (3–5 nodes) and camouflaged shelters/mast setup.

Vehicles Acquisition $175K

[#18] Additional vehicle/fleet purchases (vans/trailers/helicopter acquisition capital costs separate from mobile jamming units).

Drones Fleet $140K

[#7] Acquisition of fleet of 3–5 advanced drones for deployment/support and positioning directional jammers.

Training Initial $138K

[#10] Initial intensive training/certification program for RF jamming, tower work, and MTF tactical exercises.

Emergency Generators $88K

[#19] Portable generators, UPS systems, and power-control gear for site deployments (one-time acquisition).

Decommissioning Cycle $28K

[#30] Secure disposal / destruction costs for hazardous jamming hardware per decommission cycle.

Streaming Monitoring Dev $6K

[#4] One-time development of crawlers, CDN hooks and detection rules.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.0M/yr

Staff Wages $1.9M/yr

[#8] Salaries, benefits, hazard/OPSEC pay for core MTF Gamma-62 team and support staff (estimate for ~12–20 personnel).

Cover Story And Legal $1.1M/yr

[#13, #14, #15, #21, #26, #28, #29] Legal/PR retainers, municipal payments, broadcaster compensation reserve, cyber/CDN liaison retainers, classified overhead/black-ops slush funds, CDN monitoring contracts, and public-facing warning/notification programs.

Contingency Replenishment $500K/yr

[#23] Annual replenishment allocation for the contingency reserve if drawn during escalations.

Research And Monitoring $354K/yr

[#4, #16, #17] Ongoing cloud/ops for streaming monitoring (#4 ~$36k), recurring R&D programs (#16 ~$300k/yr), and storage/compute for captured incidents (#17 ~$17.5k).

Utility Retainer And Outages $250K/yr

[#12] Standing retainer/coordination with utilities plus per-outage compensation budget for controlled outages.

Oncall And Surge $195K/yr

[#9] On-call overtime, surge deployment rotations, travel, lodging and hazard pay for emergency incidents (assumes multiple callouts annually).

Physical Security $120K/yr

[#20] Guard contracts, temporary fencing and access control for jamming sites and secure storage.

Facilities Maintenance $105K/yr

[#2] Lease, utilities, HVAC, janitorial, routine maintenance and shielding recertification for the operations facility.

Logistics And Transport $90K/yr

[#18] Fleet operations, fuel, insurance and transport logistics for vehicles/helicopters (operational costs only).

Public Safety Coordination $85K/yr

[#22] Liaison costs and expedited backup power/payments to hospitals, 911 centers and other critical services.

Incident Restoration $80K/yr

[#25] Technician returns, recalibration, cleanup and station restoration costs following incidents.

Training And Exercises $62K/yr

[#10] Recurring annual training, certification renewals, and simulation exercises.

Supplies And Consumables $35K/yr

[#24] Batteries, RF consumables, PPE, spare RF components, replacement small hardware.

Mobile Jamming Maintenance $35K/yr

[#5] Spare parts, maintenance and periodic overhaul for mobile jamming units.

Psych Support $35K/yr

[#27] Psychological support, vetting and ongoing counseling for exposed staff.

Drones Ops $30K/yr

[#7] Pilot/operator costs, maintenance, permits and routine drone operations.

Secure Comms Maintenance $30K/yr

[#11] Airtime, satcom, encrypted radio maintenance and service.

Generators Maintenance $18K/yr

[#19] Fuel, routine servicing and maintenance for portable generators and UPS systems.

Spectrum Monitoring Maintenance $5K/yr

[#3] Annual maintenance/calibration for spectrum analyzers and receivers.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.0M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with routine monitoring, maintenance, and occasional minor callouts.

routine_monitoring occasional_single_station_incident

🚨 Minor Incident $5.2M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized commandeering of a station with limited streaming spread requiring targeted deployments, short CDN/streaming takedown, and PR/legal responses.

single_station_commandeering short_streaming_spread localized_CDN_edge_hit

🚨 Major Breach $7.5M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline

Multiple simultaneous station commandeerings and/or propagation to major CDN regions requiring large-scale outages, contingency reserve use, and substantial legal fallout.

multi-site_incident CDN_widespread_propagation large_legal_exposure

👥 Personnel 16 total

Role	Count	Notes
Signal Specialist / RF Engineer	3	[#8] RF engineering and jamming design/analysis.
Communications Technician	2	[#8] Equipment operation, antenna maintenance and field electronics.
Operations Coordinator	1	[#8] Mission coordination, scheduling and liaison duties.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	8	[#8] Tactical deployment, site security and field operations.
IT / Analyst	1	[#4, #17] Streaming/data monitoring, crawler and CDN analysis.
Drone Pilot / Aerial Operator	1	[#7] Drone operations and remote deployment support.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst note ranges and midpoints; many line items (incident frequency, legal fallout, contingency use) are highly uncertain and contingent on anomalous behavior, so overall confidence is medium.

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