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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by pnpnp on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:34PM (#36923113)
Things like the SR-71 and B-2 development programs are off the higher level books.

Due to the compartmentalized nature of some of the programs (with good reason), it’s infeasible the DoD would ever pass a traditional audit.

Much like the CIA intentionally obfuscates funding for 3rd parties.

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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by callalex on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:01PM (#36923362)
And yet other countries in the free world seem to manage this problem just fine…
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by cvwright on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:14PM (#36923475)
Because the US provides the SR-71s and B-2s for those countries.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by fullspectrumdev on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:27PM (#36923630)
Bingo. I can’t think of any other EU/NATO/FVEY country that actually does development of defence tech on the scale the US does.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by dmix on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:59AM (#36927967)
That doesn't mean the US gov can't find auditors with proper security clearance to account for those black budgets.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by pnpnp on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:00AM (#36943627)
You’re missing the “compartmentalized” nature of TS/SCI projects. You would need many, many auditors or the paperwork would be enormous to be cleared for each one.

Yes it’s technically possible, but the current model doesn’t support moving between compartments easily.

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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by Dah00n on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:11PM (#36923445)
That's because they don't have a government in a government in a government.... 127 layers deep. More like 2-3.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by pnpnp on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:28AM (#36944097)
Sure, but the comment I was responding to referenced auditing the DoD.

This is a whole different can of worms :)

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