Missile Defense?

DOD removes missile defense system report from Web site BY Bob Brewin Published on Mar. 20, 2006 The Defense Department has removed from the DOD inspector general’s Web site a critical report that states that the network that links radar systems, missile sites and command centers for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) ground-based defense system has serious flaws in the security technologies, policies and procedures needed to protect the integrity, availability and confidentiality of information on the network. [FCW]

If you have been following the whole missile defense initiative, you already know this is a project that is little more than a whole in the ground into which the Federal Government has been pouring your money. And large quantities of your money. The program has yet to have a successful test (even when the telemetry data was fed directly into the missile guidance system), is judged by those who know something about it to be in the category of impossible with the current state of technology and from the standpoint of most laymen, a system that is unnecessary.

Now the IG reports that the system has serious technical and security flaws has been yanked. While the explanation that will be forth coming will be something along the line of it was only a draft, it is yet another example of how the administration does not like to look stupid, even when they are doing stupid things. The Office of the Inspector General is supposed to prevent fraud and abuse and they are not supposed to be subject to political pressures. So far, in terms of missile defense, they are doing a lousy job because this is the second largest case of government fraud and abuse currently being undertaken by the Department of Defense.