US to Launch Third Iteration of 'Hack the Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program

guest · Jan 16, 2023

By Alessandro Mascellino @a_mascellino - January 16, 2023

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has confirmed it will soon launch the third part of its ‘Hack the Pentagon’ bug bounty program, first unveiled in 2016.
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According to a dedicated page on the Sam.Gov website, the initiative will rely on cybersecurity researchers to find vulnerabilities in the government’s Facility Related Controls System (FRCS) network.

“The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, equipment, hardware, software and training required to assess the current cybersecurity posture of the FRCS Network, identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations to improve and strengthen the overall security posture,” reads a draft of the performance work statement (PWS) of the Hack the Pentagon 3.0 program.
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The document also clarifies that the critical bounty program will only involve "unclassified Information Systems and operational technology contained within the Pentagon FRCS Network."

“These are sensitive Government assets; therefore, the Contractor will be required to leverage a private community of skilled and trusted researchers, which may be limited to US persons only, with eligibility criteria established by the DoD,” the draft explains.
Additionally, the draft is calling for researchers to be diverse in skillset and able to conduct source code analysis, reverse engineering and network and system exploitation.
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