"Hack the Pentagon" initiatives leverage white hat hackers who receive monetary rewards or “bug bounties” for finding and reporting cyber vulnerabilities.

In the latest iteration of DOD's bug bounty program, ethical hackers discovered nearly 350 bugs inside the department's networks.

Through Hack U.S., the Pentagon is offering cash rewards for exposures of digital weaknesses.

Forty-one defense contractors in the small-to-medium-size range participated in a vulnerability disclosure pilot that resulted in 1,015 reports, of which 401 were validated by system owners for…