Defense Tech: NSA Employee Charged With Giving Wife $340, 000 Contract

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via WBAL (Baltimore) Radio and AP.

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An NSA employee is accused of giving his wife's company a $340,000 contract
for work on a computer security exercise he directed, the U.S. Attorney's
office announced Tuesday.

Wayne J. Schepens, 37, of Severna Park is scheduled for an initial
appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court on the conflict of interest
charge. Schepens faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, said
Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office.

Schepens co-created the Cyber Defense Exercise in 2000 for the National
Security Agency, the secretive Department of Defense spy agency.

The annual competition involved teams from participating military academies
who tried to protect their computer networks from attacks by teams of
hackers, generally NSA employees and military reservists, according to
court documents.

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More:
http://wbal.com/news/story.asp?articleid=53813

- - ferg

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