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Because private industry clearly has managed to avoid any security breaches?

For the last ~5 years the only credit card that hasn't been reissued before the expiration date because of some large corporate data breach is the one I never use.

That's the problem, but on the other hand, "move fast and break things" doesn't work very well in military. Some middle ground solution is needed here.

Agreed. Unfortunately, the opposite of "move fast and break things" is "move slow and watch them break on their own."

Hard-wired terminals in secure rooms, airgapped from the internet and no external/portable devices allowed, enforced by there being no sockets, and if that fails, by Marines with rifles. It really is not difficult to make a system 100x securer than that one...

"its contractors", "its long"

The answer is don't outsource things like this to Booze Muhkidney