The Defense Digital Service is partnering with Bugcrowd on the effort.

Lawmakers and others are looking for ways to mitigate threats associated with artificial intelligence and generative AI.

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

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…