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Audit finds cyber vulnerabilities in US missile defense system

A Defense Department Inspector General report raises more questions about the military's shoddy cybersecurity.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

4 years ago

Navy to send destroyer to Far East to boost ballistic missile defense

Amid growing tension with North Korea, the U.S. Navy is surging a ballistic missile defense ship to the west Pacific after two catastrophic collisions this summer diminished the missile defense options there.

By Mark D. Faram

6 years ago

Sailor error led to failed US Navy ballistic missile intercept test

A U.S. Missile Defense Agency investigation into a failed ballistic missile intercept test showed that a mistaken input into the combat system input by a sailor on the destroyer John Paul Jones caused the missile to self-destruct before reaching the target.

6 years ago

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