Faced with competing demands for efforts to combat terrorism, the U.S. Department of Defense has spent $500,000 and put its top cybercrime researchers on a program to make the fight against child pornography more efficient, according to officials at the agency.

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The DOD is also researching the legal ramifications of making the image database available to other government law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI or state and local law enforcement, Zatyko said.

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