type private industry national security and counterterrorism founded 1990 headquarters mclean virginia us website http www.gtec inc.com the analysis corporation tac was the intelligence solutions business of global defense technology & systems inc. gtec now renamed sotera defense solutions a defense contracting company . since its inception in 1990 tac has been working on projects in the counterterrorism and national security realm by supporting national watchlisting activities as well as other ct requirements . based in mclean virginia it is a wholly owned subsidiary of global strategies group north america inc. the operating company of gtec . contents 1 cooperation 2 key areas 3 leadership 4 passport info scandal 5 references 6 external links 7 see also cooperation edit gtec s intelligence solutions business which is staffed by other former senior officials from the intelligence community operates within almost every entity in the intelligence community including the us department of state department of homeland security dhs federal bureau of investigation fbi and defense intelligence agency dia . key areas edit prior to 9 11 tac was instrumental in providing pattern recognition and data mining software applications that served as the basis for the us government s original terrorist watchlist database called tipoff . in 2003 tac assisted the government in standing up the terrorist screening center tsc the terrorist threat integration center ttic and its successor the national counterterrorism center nctc . key practice areas included intelligence and federal law enforcement support for terrorist screening watchlist development and operations ; intelligence analysis ; systems integration and software development ; multilingual name search ; and pattern matching . it was awarded over 400m in government contracts since 2000 including some 30.6 m in 2007 19.5 m in 2008 and 150m in 2009 . 1 customers included the department of state national targeting center ntc defense intelligence agency dia national security agency nsa office of naval intelligence oni nctc tsc and the fbi . leadership edit tac was founded in 1990 by ceal hayes a retired department of state employee . in 2004 tac was purchased by sfa and maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary . ms. hayes remained president of tac into 2005 . in november 2005 john o. brennan was appointed president and ceo of tac . mr. brennan was the former interim director of the national counterterrorism center 2 and a 25 year veteran of the cia . 3 following mr. brennan s departure in october 2008 to serve as advisor to then presidential candidate barack obama alexander drew became the acting president of tac . mr. drew was then named president in january 2009 and remained so though february 2012 when tac was ultimately dissolved and assimilated into sotera defense solutions formerly sfa global strategies group north america and gtec . in january 2009 mr. brennan was selected by president barack obama to serve in his administration as homeland security adviser and deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism . in march 2013 brennan was appointed director of the central intelligence agency . 4 passport info scandal edit see also united states presidential election 2008 in early 2008 tac found itself in the midst of a scandal when a state department spokesman revealed that a tac contractor formerly a retired state department employee gained unauthorized access on march 14 to the passport records for barack obama and john mccain . 5 the tac employee who has not been named is the only individual to have accessed both obama s and mccain s passport information without proper authorization a state department spokesman said . the employee s actions triggered an electronic alarm system according to sources familiar with the probe . 6 tac strongly disavowed the employee s actions in a subsequent press release . 7 references edit center for effective government 2012 07 17 . federal spending . fedspending.org . retrieved 2013 10 10 . from kate bolduan cnn 2008 03 22 . chief of firm involved in breach is obama adviser . cnn.com . retrieved 2013 10 10 . former counterterror chief to lead sfa subsidiary . bizjournals.com . 2005 11 04 . retrieved 2013 10 10 . http www.nytimes.com 2013 03 06 us politics brennan vote by senate intelligence panel.html passport scandal leads to virginia contractors archived january 1 2010 at the wayback machine . washington the 2008 03 22 . passport probe focuses on worker . washingtontimes.com . retrieved 2013 10 10 . statement from the analysis corporation . prnewswire.com . 2008 03 20 . retrieved 2013 10 10 . external links edit official site a collection of material related to the passport info scandal spies for hire see also edit airport security civil defense high policing infrastructure security military industrial complex port security supply chain security terrorism in the united states retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the analysis corporation & oldid 701460435 categories defense companies of the united statescompanies established in 1990companies based in virginiahidden categories articles with wayback machine linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 january 2016 at 19 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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