Navy strives to keep new ships like Zumwalt from being hacked

Combining mechanical and combat systems into an integrated network aboard U.S. warships presents cybersecurity challenges, but there’s no evidence that a Navy ship has ever been hacked, according to one of the Navy’s top cybersecurity officials.

The stealthy Zumwalt that’s under construction at Maine’s Bath Iron Works represents the highest level of automation and integration to date on a destroyer, Rear Adm. William Leigher said.

“The real key for Zumwalt is doing the exhaustive testing that we will do as the ship starts to come to life and doing the training that we need to as we understand the nuances of the ship,” said Leigher, the Navy’s director of Warfare Integration for Information Dominance.

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