Air Force fields AOC upgrades despite continued cybersecurity gaps

By Rachel Cohen / January 26, 2018 at 10:59 AM
The Air Force chose to field upgrades to the Air Operations Center Weapon System last year even though it knew cybersecurity vulnerabilities persisted, the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation said in his fiscal year 2017 report released this week . The upgrades in question -- AOC 10.1.13.3 and AOC 10.1.14.E -- were developed before the Air Force canceled the AOC 10.2 program last year. During integrated developmental and operational testing in 2017, both upgrades allowed the system to...

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