DoD Sharing Threat Data With Critical Industries

Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that for the past two years, the Defense Department has been collaborating with critical industries to stem the loss of important defense industry data — by some estimates at least $100 billion worth over that time. The Pentagon is considering ways to share its threat data with other industries including telecommunications and Internet service providers, led by the DoD's Cyber Crime Center, the clearinghouse for threat data from the NSA, military agencies, the DHS, and industry. The Pentagon's trial program with industry illuminates the promise and the pitfalls of such partnerships: a reluctance of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to release threat data they consider classified, and the companies' fear of losing control over personal or proprietary information. 'This isn't just about national security,' says Barbara Fast, vice president of Boeing Cyber Solutions. 'It's about the economic well-being of the United States.'"

Comments

So, companies and military join forces

[captainpanic]

Sorry, but how is this going to affect the always praised market?

If one company has good contacts with the military, then how on earth is a small start-up going to compete for new contracts?

In my humble opinion, the best way to achieve a safe industry is to nationalize it completely... permanently destroy all competition, and assign some big shot military guy as CEO of the company. Especially defense industry only has the government as customer, so why not make it a national (non-profit, and very safe) industry?

And then proceed to claim to the rest of the world that the Soviets had it all wrong :D
(sorry - of course it should be the other way around: you should privatize the government instead of nationalizing industry).