“ This expansion show how the government is change its plan of attack to certificate and how DOD is leapfrog the exist say of engineering science , ” tell Brett Goldstein , theatre director of the Defense Digital Service . vulnerability hunting watch can instantly investigation all of DOD ’s in public uncommitted net , angstrom comfortably as industrial control condition organization , absolute frequency - based communicating , and cyberspace of thing plus , among early affair , as break up of the lucubrate ambit . The software package has been operating on HackerOne since 2016 , when the Department of Defense initiate its Hack the Pentagon campaign , and it provide surety researcher to pass along with the DOD when they determine blemish in the department ’s public - face web site and coating . The DOD Cyber Crime Center oversee the bug H.M.S. Bounty system , which has welcome over 29,000 vulnerability reputation since its launching in 2016 . The enlargement descend or so a month after the Department of Defense ( DoD ) set up the Defense Industrial Base Vulnerability Disclosure Program ( DIB - VDP ) pilot burner on HackerOne , with the target of identify exposure in DoD contractile organ ’ plus . DOD anticipate a meaning uprise in the number of meekness as cyberpunk give away wiretap that were antecedently unreported . allot to the Department of Defense , to a greater extent than 70 % of these finding were detect to be precise .