Joint Strike Fighter program security compromised

The Wall Street Journal confirmed concerns that Ploughshares grantee Project On Government Oversight (POGO) exposed last year about security vulnerabilities due to poor oversight in the Department of Defense's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. Six current and former officials familiar with the fighter program told the Journal that the $300 billion program has been repeatedly broken into by computer spies. "This isn't just about the Joint Strike Fighter program, it is also about the utter failure of the oversight systems to stop this from happening," said POGO’s Danielle Brian. “This could have been prevented. People inside the system were repeatedly trying to raise this concern. It wasn't until they went to the press that anyone did anything about it.”