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SCP-9122 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-9122
Expected annual
$2.5M
One-time setup
$3.0M
Annual recurring
$2.4M
Personnel
16
One-time capital is approximately $3.03M driven by contingency for advanced localization, backup-site buildout, and equipment/structural work; recurring annual costs are approximately $2.44M dominated by staff wages, administrative overhead, backup-site operations, compute/security and maintenance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.0M
Contingency Localization $1.5M
[#28] Contingency capital for advanced localization campaigns (satellite launches, very large baseline arrays, or major instrumentation upgrades).
Equipment $470K
[#1, #2, #9] Dish and front-end hardware portion (#1), receiver/back-end and signal-chain hardware (#2), and secure server/rack hardware portion of deployment (#9).
Backup Site Construction $400K
[#12] One-time capital for a geographically-separated redundant monitoring site (smaller mirror site).
Facilities $320K
[#1, #10, #15] Site civil work and radome (#1), secure server room physical build-out (#10), and perimeter/access control construction (#15).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $250K
[#6] On-prem GPU cluster and initial ML/signal-processing hardware for research and translation.
Generator Installation $50K
[#21, #22] UPS and emergency generator purchase and installation to ensure continuous monitoring.
Decommissioning Fund $25K
[#29] End-of-life decommissioning, secure disposal and site remediation fund.
Medical Kit $10K
[#17, #18] Onsite medical kit, AEDs, PPE and first-aid room setup (one-time portion of #17, explicit #18).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.4M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#3, #4, #5, #16] 24/7 monitoring operators & lead (#3), RF engineers/technicians (#4), research/linguistics/crypto team (#5), and site security staff (#16).
Administrative Overhead And Benefits $363K/yr
[#30] HR, procurement, accounting, insurance and benefits (estimated 30% overhead on salary lines per #30).
Backup Site Operations $250K/yr
[#13] Staff, maintenance and utilities for the redundant/backup monitoring site.
Research And Monitoring $190K/yr
[#7, #8, #14] GPU/cloud compute rental and on-demand compute (#7), data storage/archival costs (#8), and direction-finding / paid telescope time / VLBI campaigns (#14).
Cover Story And Legal $120K/yr
[#26] Legal counsel, spectrum liaison, PR/FOIA handling and cover-story maintenance.
Cybersecurity And Managed Soc $80K/yr
[#9, #11] Ongoing managed security operations, SIEM, pentesting and secure infrastructure maintenance (recurring portion of #9 and #11).
Routine Maintenance And Spare Parts $80K/yr
[#24] Consumables, vendor maintenance contracts, spare LNAs, motors, cabling and radome upkeep.
Incident Response Fund $50K/yr
[#27] Reserved funds for emergency procurement, overtime and urgent campaigns if the transmission changes.
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#25] Travel, field ops, shipping of RF gear and coordination visits.
Medical And Psychological Care $40K/yr
[#17, #19] Ongoing medical screenings, counseling, incident treatment budgets and med supplies (recurring portion of #17 and #19).
Power And Utilities $10K/yr
[#21, #23] Fuel, generator maintenance and electricity to run dishes/servers/cooling.
Supplies And Consumables $2K/yr
[#20] PPE (ear protection) replacements, fit-testing and related consumables.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.4M/yr
80.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, and no major campaigns or contingencies invoked.
steady_signal no_major_changes routine_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $2.6M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Transmission changes or short-lived anomalous behavior requiring emergency response, overtime, short campaigns and additional SOC/analysis effort.
transmission_change panic_incidents short_localization_campaign
🚨 Major Campaign $3.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Signal developments or policy decisions trigger an advanced localization campaign or one-off mission requiring contingency capital (large instrumentation, launch or extensive VLBI campaigns).
signal_enables_localization international_coordination launch_or_large_array
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Operator / Monitoring Technician 4 [#3] 24/7 monitoring operators covering three shifts.
Shift Lead / Senior Operator 1 [#3] Senior shift lead responsible for immediate reporting and supervision.
RF Engineer / Technician 2 [#4] On-call RF engineers/technicians for maintenance, calibration and repairs.
Research Scientist / Linguist / Cryptanalyst 3 [#5] Computational linguists, xenolinguistics and cryptanalysis staff for translation and analysis.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#16] 24/7 armed/unarmed guards to secure the site (2 per shift).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing reasonable mid-point estimates, but many items (equipment specs, campaign scope, staffing mixes) have wide ranges and contingency outcomes are highly variable, so confidence is medium.
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