The problem is that the people in charge of deciding what to approve/buy for the Military are not qualified. They get the position of authority by being successful in the military not by proving they understand the technology of the things they are buying.
I can see how this happened. Say the military guy had two choices of what to buy for video feed products.
Product 1. Fully encrypted video 15 frames per second and a 5 second delay.
Product 2. No encryption video at 30 fps and 1 second delay.
At the demo he says "product 2 is much better lets get that". When product 2 is questioned about security they say something like "we have proprietary codecs". From the miliary guy's point a view a codec is just as good as encryption.
I can see how this happened. Say the military guy had two choices of what to buy for video feed products.
Product 1. Fully encrypted video 15 frames per second and a 5 second delay.
Product 2. No encryption video at 30 fps and 1 second delay.
At the demo he says "product 2 is much better lets get that". When product 2 is questioned about security they say something like "we have proprietary codecs". From the miliary guy's point a view a codec is just as good as encryption.