Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons

Posted by Peter Deppisch on 10/30/2009

By JOHN MARKOFF- Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear. That shortfall is viewed with concern by current and former [...]