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Protecting Ballistic Missile Technology Starts With Cyber, Army General Says

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

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Protecting Ballistic Missile Technology Starts With Cyber, Army General Says

Lt. Gen. David Mann. Photo: U.S. Army

Ensuring effective cyber defenses are in place to help contain the proliferation of technologies that could contribute to enemy capabilities is one way to prevent the danger at a time when so much technology is commercially available, an Army general said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. David Mann, the chief of the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command, told a gathering hosted by the Peter Huessy Breakfast Series that cyber is key to protecting sensitive U.S. technologies,…

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