Mike Rounds: “Our adversaries are not blind to this. Not surprisingly…”

“Defense information technology budgets have long served as the bill payer, absorbing cuts to fund near term priorities. The result is a technical debt problem of historic proportions in both hardware and software. Our adversaries are not blind to this. Not surprisingly, they are taking advantage of this blunder. Every day we delay modernizing is a day we strengthen their hand in the cyber domain as we modernize. Speed without security is not an improvement.” (02:25–02:32)

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