The Pentagon Has No Idea On How Many Websites It Runs

Stars and Stripes: Want to know how many websites the Pentagon runs? So does the Pentagon

The Pentagon could be responsible for 5,000 publicly accessible websites. Or it could be less than half that. Nobody appears to know for sure.

Speaking at a town hall event for employees of the military’s main public affairs organization, Army Col. Paul Haverstick said late last month that the number of Pentagon and military branch websites is “undefined.”

“Between 2,000 and 5,000 is the estimate,” said Haverstick, acting director of the Defense Media Activity, on April 24. “We have less than a third of that.”

DMA runs some 825 public websites and blogs for the military, its website says. That includes the Defense Department’s flagship public site and the official sites for the Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army Reserve, National Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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WNU Editor: How can the U.S. government talk about cyber security/warfare when they do not even know the number of websites that they run.

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