Hackers working for Russia are so effective at penetrating the computers of American defense contractors that they can track new US weapons programs from their inception and tap the data to give their own military systems an edge, former US Secretary of the Navy John Lehman reportedly said at a forum on Wednesday.
“Today their cyber is so capable, even though most of the defense industry will not publicly admit it, but they’re right in from the beginning of the program with their cyber capability, so there is almost no lag. They’re not behind us, they’re with us in our [technology development].”
Lehman, who served as navy secretary under President Ronald Reagan, made the comments at a maritime security event hosted by the US Naval Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was the architect of the 600-ship force mobilized by the US Navy against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Lehman noted at the event that the effective Russian cyber hacks are a continuation of a strategy used by Moscow after World War II of “drafting” their weapons technology off of US designs.
“They designed their fighters to use (US) F/A-18 radar because they knew they’d be able to steal them,” Lehman said.
He cited the example of Russian submarine development over the last several years as another example of how such technology leaked out.
“If you look at their latest submarines, it’s pretty hard to project a real advantage sub-to-sub. [They] copied all of the technology off our submarine quieting, and they’re ahead in some of the offensive capabilities,” he said.
“We have really fallen behind in technology, and we need to get back into that game.”
Lehman said one of the best ways to combat the problem is to create a faster US weapons acquisitions process. He says this will allow US industry and the Pentagon to more quickly bring high-tech systems to the field. Lehman noted that while the U.S. has a 22-year process to get a major weapon system fully operational, Russia and China have about a seven year cycle.
Please Sir, can I have more money! LOL!
Russian hackers must be geniuses and downright magicians and US hackers not getting enough technological and financial backing.
I keep wondering why China have to keep on investing in American institutes more so in the field of AI when they have their own Silicon in Shezhen City with similar facilities to California’s Silicon Valley when they can starve of the American companies financially and if possible entice the American work force to their country where they can work for them and even pay them handsome. No need of being treated like trash by these old fools who think that they know much more and are protecting their country by alienating both China and Russia when the world should be combining resources to make it a better place.
LOL! The name of the blog is Asia Times and that should tell you that it gives more prerogative to Asian continent more than any other so I don’t understand why you’d expect a foreign media house to give more shit about American news than the countries it’s supposed to cover.
"… America has a proven track record…bla bla bla..". Sure you do but that does not imply that this media house is an American Military Advertising Website. America can only be mentioned here as a by the way. Besides your military hardwares are overrated excessively and very expensive compared to Great Manufacturing Country like Russia whose technology is top notch and probably better than America’s and very cheap.
Cold war continues. Americans can complain like a kid
это какая то старая новсть. . .