Pentagon officials are planning to enforce stricter data-security standards for sensitive but unclassified information passed routinely between Defense Department employees and contractors working on military acquisition programs, according to a previously unreported DOD memo. DOD and the defense industrial base, or DIB, "face enormous challenges in protecting sensitive or controlled unclassified information developed and used in support of DOD acquisition programs," defense acquisition chief John Young wrote in a Nov. 18, 2008, memo to service leaders. "In particular, the increased...
