Re:US Navy Soliciting Zero Days
by smegel on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @01:11PM
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I find it really strange the Navy is doing this. Does it actually have an intelligence wing capable of taking advantage of this? And if you thought the NSA was the cyber intelligence wing of the DoD, so did I.
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The ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) is the US's OLDEST Intelligence agency, so yes.. :)
What you are seeing is the so called "black budget" at work. Money is allocated for say, the NSA, to get 10 new exploits but the actual funds go to the Navy or Air Force who handle the procurement process. Sometimes the supplier doesn't even know who is receiving the final product.