Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software?

PreacherTom writes, "Pentagon officials report that 'maliciously placed code' could compromise the security of the Defense Department and, ultimately, hurt its ability to fight wars. The culprits: offshore programmers. While the Pentagon has stepped up its vendor screening and software testing of late, it's becoming more difficult and costly to test every line of software code on increasingly sophisticated weapons systems. The task force assigned to this issue will be soon presenting its report, and most likely will determine that offshoring presents too great a risk."

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Inconsistency

[Flying pig]

The UK government buys military equipment from the US which contains software which it is not permitted to review, and indeed for which it may not be allowed the latest version. And we are supposed to be about the only real international friend the US can rely on.

And this software which we are not allowed to review may have been written by offshore programmers who will know perfectly well that they are doing the job because they are cheaper, and have absolutely no patriotic investment in the US?

I wonder how many other global empires have been brought down by the desire to make a quick buck?

Already affecting the military

[britneys 9th husband]

Maliciously placed software code is already weakening our military and hurting its ability to effectively fight wars. And that code was developed by Diebold right here in the USA.