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===After 2003=== Reports began to emerge in February 2006 that TIA's components had been transferred to the authority of the NSA. In the Department of Defense [[Appropriations bill (United States)|appropriations bill]] for the 2004 fiscal year, a classified annex provided the funding. It was stipulated that the technologies were limited for military or foreign intelligence purposes against non-U.S. citizens.<ref>Mark Williams Pontin. [http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/16741/ The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On], ''MIT Technology Review'', 26 April 2006, retrieved 16 June 2016</ref> Most of the original project goals and research findings were preserved, but the privacy protection mechanics were abandoned.<ref name= shorrock/><ref name="nytimesnsa"/> ====Topsail==== [[Genoa II]], which focused on collaboration between machines and humans, was renamed "Topsail" and handed over to the NSA's [[Advanced Research and Development Activity]], or ARDA (ARDA was later moved to the [[Director of National Intelligence]]'s control as the [[Disruptive Technologies Office]]). Tools from the program were used in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|war in Afghanistan]] and other parts of the [[War on Terror]].<ref name= harris2/> In October 2005, the [[Science Applications International Corporation|SAIC]] signed a $3.7 million contract for work on Topsail.<ref name= harris/> In early 2006 a spokesman for the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]] said that Topsail was "in the process of being canceled due to lack of funds". When asked about Topsail in a [[United States Senate Intelligence Committee|Senate Intelligence Committee]] hearing that February, both [[National Intelligence Director]] [[John Negroponte]] and [[FBI Director]] [[Robert Mueller]] said they did not know the program's status. Negroponte's deputy, former [[Director of the National Security Agency|NSA director]], [[Michael V. Hayden]], said, "I'd like to answer in closed session."<ref name= harris2/> ====Basketball==== The Information Awareness Prototype System was reclassified as "Basketball" and work on it continued by SAIC, supervised by ARDA. As late as September 2004, Basketball was fully funded by the government and being tested in a research center jointly run by ARDA and SAIC.<ref name= harris2>[http://shaneharris.com/magazinestories/tia-lives-on/ TIA Lives On], ''[[National Journal]]'', 23 February 2006, retrieved 14 June 2016</ref>
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