It will be a gift to Russia and China.
August 1, 2018
By Michael Warren and Alex Rogers
The Pentagon (click here) said on Thursday that a highly sought-after cloud computing contract will not be awarded until Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has completed his examination of it.
The $10 billion, 10-year contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), has come under recent scrutiny from President Donald Trump, who has expressed concerns over the fairness of what has been a contentious bidding process among a handful of large tech companies.
Amazon has been widely seen as the front-runner to win the contract. Microsoft is the other finalist. The contract could be awarded as early as August 23....
August 1, 2018
By Michael Warren and Alex Rogers
The Pentagon (click here) said on Thursday that a highly sought-after cloud computing contract will not be awarded until Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has completed his examination of it.
The $10 billion, 10-year contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), has come under recent scrutiny from President Donald Trump, who has expressed concerns over the fairness of what has been a contentious bidding process among a handful of large tech companies.
Amazon has been widely seen as the front-runner to win the contract. Microsoft is the other finalist. The contract could be awarded as early as August 23....
I TOLD YOU SO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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iT IS BETTER TO RECYCLE THE JUNK THAN PUT OUR SOLDIERS IN IT!
AND YES, IT IS ALL A WASTE OF MONEY BY THE TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS!
Most weapons systems, including the F-35 jet, were found to be vulnerable to cyber-attack
Some of the most cutting-edge weapons (click here) in the US's military arsenal can be "easily hacked" using "basic tools", a government report has concluded.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found "mission-critical" cyber-vulnerabilities in nearly all weapons systems tested between 2012 and 2017.
That includes the newest F-35 jet as well as missile systems.
In the report, Pentagon officials said they "believed their systems were secure", NPR reported.
The committee's members expressed concerns about how protected weapon systems were against cyber-attacks.
The report's main findings were:
- the Pentagon did not change the default passwords on multiple weapons systems - and one changed password was guessed in nine seconds
- a team appointed by the GAO was able to easily gain control of one weapons system and watch in real time as the operators responded to the hackers
- it took another two-person team only one hour to gain initial access to a weapons system and one day to gain full control
- many of the test teams were able to copy, change or delete system data with one team downloading 100 gigabytes of information
The GAO added that the Pentagon "does not know the full scale of its weapons system vulnerabilities".
The Pentagon has not issued a detailed response to the 50-page report but the document quoted officials as saying that some of the security test results "were unrealistic"....
