Top Weapons Tester Spots Cyber Vulnerabilities In Most DOD Programs

By Tony Bertuca / January 21, 2015 at 12:07 PM
The Pentagon's chief weapons tester has identified critical cyber vulnerabilities in most of the Defense Department's acquisition programs that were tested last year, according to an annual report to Congress. J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation, wrote in the Jan. 16 report that his office "identified critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in most of the acquisition programs that were operationally tested during" fiscal year 2014. "Cyber adversaries have become as serious a threat to U.S. military forces...

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