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a huge swath of talent will be ineligeble to work on this as GovCloud/FedRamp requirements for US Citizen employees That doesn't stop some DoD contractors from

a huge swath of talent will be ineligeble to work on this as GovCloud/FedRamp requirements for US Citizen employees That doesn't stop some DoD contractors from still subcontracting foreign nationals. Crazy what goes on. Question: How do you vet a non-citizen for work on a DoD system? Let me give you a tiny example. Let's say you have a system for keeping track of jet parts. Super important stuff. What's to say a foreign agent couldn't make a subtle "mistake" that allows for misuse or misallocation of parts by not properly storing their flight history? Planes fail and fall out of the sky. This could totally happen (not saying it has although, again, the stories I hear JFC) and a competing state would be foolish not to try it.

samstave 8y ago
>...a competing state would be foolish not to try it. Yeah, there is no way that this contract is not the largest target possible... I am honestly fascinated and really interested in the cyber-warfare that has, is and will be going on. Just thinking about Stuxnet/Duqu is pretty amazing - the things that are going on that we don't currently know about and the things that will happen are very interesting. What I would like to determine, as an emergent tell of the electronic warfare between states is the true disposition between "enemies" -- i.e. we know that Iran and Israel really are enemies and assassinating targets of opportunity (stuxnet ++ engineers previously killed), but it should be telling when publicly on state denounces another (e.g. US denounces NK), but then doesnt take any back-channel actions against the state - or the reverse...