Another laptop has been stolen, in this case jeopardizing personal information of some 1,000 airmen of the West Virginia Air National Guard, reports the Charleston (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. The Guard has notified members of the 130th Airlift Wing of the potential compromise of personal data, but a spokesman told the newspaper that USAF has “some of the most sophisticated encryption processes to safeguard information on government computers.”
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…