# The Pentagon Wants to Swap Prime Contractors for a Vendor Mall. That Is Also an Attack Surface.

- slug: the-pentagon-wants-to-swap-prime-contractors-for-a-vendor-mall-that-is-also-an-attack-surface
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Space & Aerospace

Adversaries are jamming U.S. satellites. The Pentagon answer: spread the network across hundreds of vendors so one strike cant kill it all. That same move puts classified knowledge into a supply chain that was never designed for cybersecurity.

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