step 1. Lower your employment standards. We all have a past... and smoke pot.
step 2. Raise your pay. Why would we work for you if we can make 2-3x in the private sector?
step 3. Start looking in the private sector for people who are well known for being badasses
step 4. After hiring them, actually implement their ideas.
If they got it from a subcontractor.
1. no longer use that subcontractor.
2. Investigate the subcontractor for putting the nation in danger and wasting billions in mil-tech
3. stop giving the entire plans to a subcontractor. They only need bits and pieces to create the shit you need. There is no reason they should know what its going into.
If they compromised our systems and stole it.
1. fire whoever designed that network/system architecture.
2. That system should not be running ANY daemons.
3. No one should be browsing from said computer.
4. Said system should also be firewalled off from EVERYONE.
5. the only way those documents get out is in pieces, and who has each of those pieces should be logged, and flagged if they receive too many pieces.
Thats where I would start at least.