{"id":19338,"date":"2015-11-15T18:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/the-pentagons-plan-to-outsource-lethal-cyber-weapons"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:37","slug":"the-pentagons-plan-to-outsource-lethal-cyber-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/the-pentagons-plan-to-outsource-lethal-cyber-weapons","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s plan to outsource lethal cyber-weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pentagon has quietly put out a call for vendors to bid on a contract to develop, execute and manage its new cyber weaponry and defense program. The scope of this nearly half-billion-dollar \u201chelp wanted\u201d work order includes counterhacking, as well as developing and deploying lethal cyberattacks<\/a> \u2014 sanctioned hacking expected to cause real-life destruction and loss of human life.<\/p>\n

In June 2016, work begins under the Cyberspace Operations Support Services contract<\/a> (pdf) under CYBERCOM (United States Cyber Command). The $460 million project recently came to light and details the Pentagon\u2019s plan to hand over its IT defense and the planning, development, execution, management, integration with the NSA, and various support functions of the U.S. military\u2019s cyberattacks to one vendor.<\/p>\n

While not heavily publicized, it\u2019s a surprisingly public move for the Pentagon to advertise that it\u2019s going full-on into a space that has historically been kept behind closed doors. Only this past June, the Department of Defense Law of War Manual<\/a> (pdf) was published for the first time ever and included Cyber Operations under its own section \u2014 and, controversially, a section indicating that cyber-weapons with lethal outcomes are sanctioned by Pentagon doctrine.<\/p>\n

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The Pentagon has quietly put out a call for vendors to bid on a contract to develop, execute and manage its new cyber weaponry and defense program. The scope of this nearly half-billion-dollar \u201chelp wanted\u201d work order includes counterhacking, as well as developing and deploying lethal cyberattacks \u2014 sanctioned hacking expected to cause real-life destruction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69196,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/69196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}