The sub-agency says files were erased during work to correct synchronization between the system’s live primary database and a backup database.

“When somebody is asked to share data with someone else, the first thing they are thinking is ‘this is a very daunting process.’”

The majority of new UAP reporting originates from Navy and Air Force aviators and operators, a new assessment confirms.

If the diagnosis is correct, this will be the latest example of a major federal IT system outage caused by a corrupted database file.

The computer system, which was hit with an outage Wednesday morning, provides pilots with key information about surrounding airspace but today’s outage is unlikely to have compromised…

A White House spokesperson said that currently there is no evidence that an outage of the Notice to Air Missions System was caused by a cyberattack.

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