Joint Regional Security Stacks Program Failing To Meet Operational Outcomes, DoD IG Says

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The Pentagon’s project to consolidate its network access points and decrease the cyber attack with Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) is failing to meet objectives, according to a report Thursday from the department’s inspector general. The DoD IG’s report notes ongoing difficulty training operators on JRSS and a failure to meet operational needs for the system designed to address cyber security concerns by deploying physical security stacks to operational locations to provide increased firewall security. “DoD’s implementation of the JRSS is not fully achieving the expected outcomes of the DoD’s [Joint Information Environment] objective to implement regional security,” officials wrote in the report.“Although implementing the JRSS is reducing the footprint and number of enemy attack vectors to the DoD [Information Network] (DoDIN), the JRSS is not achieving other intended JIE outcomes for implementing regional security.” JRSS was intended to address cyber security concerns by deploying deploying physical security stacks to operational locations to provide increased firewall security and decrease the attack vector space on the DoDIN. The report states that DoD officials projected JRSS would cost $520 million, while the IG’s office estimated the program would eventually total over $2.2 billion, which would exceed DoD 5000 contracting requirements and require an approved training plan for operators.