The basic function of the data acquisition and control system was the gathering of various type data and the control of test facilities include the cooling facility.
The militants seized control of the facility, taking hundreds of people hostage.
Once they were inside, however, guns were drawn and the Islamists took control of the facility.
Local staff remain in place and the military is still in control of the facility, officials said.
"The correctional officers' job was to keep control of the facility," he said.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday yesterday, the acting national commissioner of correctional services, Nontsikelelo Jolingana, said "The contractor [G4S] has lost effective control of the facility".
By the time Algerian forces regained control of the facility, 39 hostages and 29 of Belmokhtar's fighters were dead.
He said it would resume its obligations as soon as the security situation has improved and control of the facility has been regained.
Soon after the news broke, Isis, which calls itself Islamic State and captured the Mosul Dam two weeks ago, denied the claim, insisting it was still in control of the facility.
Through his control of the facility, Feinberg has even been provided with after-action reports from Special Operations missions, according to Steve Reichert, the founder of Tier 1, who spoke to me for a story I wrote for New York magazine.
