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Cyber

Defense Department Opens Up Registration Website For ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Effort

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, March 31st, 2016

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Defense Department Opens Up Registration Website For ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Effort

The Defense Department’s “Hack the Pentagon” pilot program has officially kicked off and is accepting applicants, the department said Thursday.Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced on a trip to Silicon Valley that the department planned to start a new “bug bounty” program that would allow hackers to find security vulnerabilities within selected official websites (Defense Daily, March 2). Although companies such as Apple [AAPL] and Tesla Motors [TSLA] regularly use such programs to root out bad code in their…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

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Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]