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With all the crusading about homeland and national security you would think that executive decision makers would start to get a clue about security. Unfortunately it seems that some decision makers still don't understand security. Take the 'brass' at the USAF, United States Air Force, for example. SC Magazine reported in December that the USAF plans on consolidating 38 contracts by standardizing on Microsoft software. Air Force CIO John Gilligan explained to SC Magazine that the problem has to do with patching all the different kinds of computers the air for maintains.