In The Newz...

...the first cyber Bug Bounty Program in the history of the federal government," officially inviting hackers to take up the challenge...
http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/hack-the-pentagon.html

They are going to be doing criminal background checks on people to make sure they aren't bringing in a bad element on inauguration day...sounds counterintuitive...

We've had this discussion before, and what it came down to was an analogy of the Police Officer...

Some Cops are balancing on right and wrong avenue, in other words, if they weren't a cop they'd be a criminal...

So by bringing in the White Hat Hackers, or Cops...is not going to show you anything and/or will you learn anything.

In order to get the criminal thought process you'll need to allow Black Hat Hackers as well...

You'll need to mock up a network for them to connect to, in other words, take what you have already just minus the data ;-)

Meet them on their terms!

Otherwise all you're doing is reminding us of an old saying, "It was nothing but Smoke and Mirrors"...and that's a fact!