IG turns up numerous failings by U.S. military to protect BMDS tech info

By Jason Sherman / December 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM
Military facilities responsible for protecting Ballistic Missile Defense System technical information did not pass muster, according to a Defense Department inspector general audit that identified more than half-a-dozen security shortfalls on classified networks critical to the $180 billion program to develop and field a defense against Iranian and North Korean long-range rockets. On Dec. 10, the DOD IG published an unclassified version of a 44-page report detailing an investigation at five randomly selected locations. They were chosen from a list...

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